Contemporary local governance in Britain comprises a complex network of organisations working in partnership to formulate policies to address local needs and issues. Within this, local government continues to play an important part in policy and practice and in the structures and processes of local democracy. This book provides a systematic assessment of the key development issues and debates that are shaping local governance now situating these in their historical context.
A thoroughly uptodate new text on the theory and practice of local politics in Britain
First such text to take the new world of governance (and new networks of public, private and voluntary sector collaboration) as its starting point rather than follow the more traditional town hall focus of existing texts
Clear, concise and accessible
Robert Leach
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