Law, Politics, and Local Democracy

ISBN-13: 9780198256984 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 408 str.

Ian Leigh; I. Leigh

Opis

Leigh considers the competing and legally interlocking claims of local representative democracy, financial accountability and consumerism, and their implications for the governing structures of local authorities and for local electors, councillors, taxpayers, the users of local services, and council employees.

Recenzje

This is an ambitious but timely project given the immense changes that have recently taken place, that fully reflects Leigh's obvious encyclopedic knowledge of local government law. This is a significant piece of scholarship that adds to the growing corpus of knowledge on the interface of political institutions and public law.

O autorze

Ian Leigh is Professor of Law at the University of Durham. Before returning to academic life he practised as a solicitor with a large district council. He is co-author (with Professor Laurence Lustgarten) of In the Cold: National Security and Parliamentary Democracy (Clarendon Press, 1994) and has written extensively on public law and human rights.