• ISBN13: 9780333948590
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publisher Imprint: Palgr Mac
• Publication Date: August 16, 2002
• Pages: 424
• Original Price: 20.99 GBP
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1000 grams

The state of perpetual change that characterized British local government during the Thatcher/Major years did not end with the election of New Labour in 1997. The Blair administration developed its own "modernization agenda" for local government: democratic renewal, best value services, beacon councils, public-private partnerships, public service agreements and, for the first time in British history, directly elected executive mayors. This completely revised third edition of the text evaluates these changes, as well as the likely impact of broader processes of political and economic change and Labour's second term agenda.

DAVID WILSON is Professor of Public Administration and Head of the Department of Public Policy, De Montfort University, Leicester. - CHRIS GAME is Senior Lecturer, Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham.