Titlebook: Rethinking Local Democracy; Desmond King (Fellow),Gerry Stoker (Professor of P Textbook 1996Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 19

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Theorising Democracy and Local Government, democratic point of view, for an elected system of local, in addition to national, government? (ii) What changes might make it more democratic, and how desirable and practicable would they be? and (iii) How might democracy be realised at the local level, other than through the formal structures of government?

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From Theories to Practices: Looking for Local Democracy in Britain,hierarchy) but the equation between ‘local democracy’ and local government has more or less been taken for granted. The Thatcher-inspired reforms of the 1980s were met with almost universal hostility from within local government and academic communities, on the grounds that they threatened local democracy (Cochrane, 1993, pp. 31–2).

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Conclusion,latter, which is also my interest. In this conclusion I argue that most recent theorising fails adequately to examine or explain how local autonomy can be combined with the maintenance of nationally-valued rights of citizenship.

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well as empirical ones. .Rethinking Local Democracy. argues that traditional defences of local government are no longer adequate and that the case for local autonomy and local democracy needs to be radically rethought. It brings together a set of specially-commissioned chapters by leading academics

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The Value of Locality,d values have taken a central place in mainstream UK politics.. References to communitarianism and invocations of the value of community reflect a widespread fear, to the left, right and centre of the political spectrum, that market individualism threatens to atomise society.

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Introduction: Normative Theories of Local Government and Democracy,also a need in the light of this transformation for renewed normative debate about the proper role of local government and the value of local democracy. This book is intended to stimulate and contribute to such debate.

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