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Local government and democracy in Britain

Local government in the UK is in crisis. The book argues that it is now neither local in terms of the geography and populations of its principal units, nor does it govern in these areas. Over the last two hundred years local government has been changed from a system in which local interests held gov...

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Main Authors: Barnett, Neil, Chandler, J. A.
Format: Online
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Manchester University Press 2026
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Local government
Local democracy
Community
Unitary authority
Councillor
Austerity
Centralisation
Right to local government
Innovation in local government
Localism
Aims of the book
Terminology
Structure of each chapter
Democracy in local government
Autocracy in local government
Universal franchise in local government
Localism and democracy in parish government
Squirearchy
Effects of industrialisation
J. S. Mill
Liberal thought
Hobhouse and the Webbs
1930s demands for larger authorities
William Robson
G. D. H. Cole
Post-1945 theorists
Right of decision-making in communities
Banham Commission
Expansion of unitary authorities
Combined authorities
Decline of district councils
Privatisation
Contracting out
Education services
Police and fire services
Social services
Local government taxation
Central grants
Status of councillors and leaders pre-2000
Executive mayors
Cabinet government
New scrutinising role of backbench councillors
Directly elected mayors
Unitary authorities
Consequence of change for democracy
Local autonomy
Changes to local autonomy since the late nineteenth century
Policy concerning central–local relations post-2010
Local Government Act 2011
Neighbourhood planning
Effect of austerity
COVID-19
Theorising autonomy
Neoliberalism and local agency
Innovation
Entrepreneurialism
Innovation and entrepreneurialism in local government
New municipalism
Devolution of power
How central government determines the discretion given to local government
Self-interest of central political elites
Lack of an ideological perspective and ethical theory to justify British centralism
Critiques of liberal democracy
Problems of democracy in local governance in the United Kingdom
How far can direct discursive decision-making be effective in theory
Role of central government
Can direct discursive governance meld with liberal representative democracy
Politics
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes::JPHV Political structures: democracy
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPB Comparative politics
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