Regulating Local Authorities: Emerging Patterns of Central Control

ISBN-13: 9780714683065 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 174 str.

Paul Carmichael;Arthur Midwinter;Paul Carmichael

Opis

This work examines the relationship between central governments and local authorities in the UK as well as a range of European states and South Africa.

By examining the relationship between central governments and local authorities in a number of countries, the contributors to this study show how central governments exercise control and influence over the activities of local authorities.

Spis treści

Central-local relations since the Layfield Report; intergovernmental relations in Scotland post-devolution; central grants and local spending in Britain; guide democracy or multi-level governance? New trends in regulatory regimes in central-local relations in the Nordic countries; central government over local government - a Western European comparison; central-local financial relations in South Africa; between rhetoric and reality - does the 2001 White Paper reverse the centralizing trend in Britain?

O autorze

Paul Carmichael is a Senior Lecturer in Public Administratoin at the School of Policy Studies, University of Ulster Arthur Midwinter is Professor of Government at the University of Strathclyde.