This timely book is the first to take a close historical look at Ken Livingstone's London. Based on interviews and archival research, it investigates the development of London governance from the demise of the Greater London Council to the establishment of the Greater London Authority.
This timely book is the first to take a close historical look at Ken Livingstone's London. Based on interviews and archival research, it investigates ...
Local governments throughout the west are undergoing a transformation of their leadership styles and structures. Some countries have abandoned traditional systems of collective or committee based decision-making in favour of Cabinet models or, more radically, a directly-elected executive mayor, while others have strengthened existing mayoral systems. There are a few exceptions to this trend. Based on original research in eleven countries the book assesses these changes in terms of their implications for political accountability, the role of lay politicians, political recruitment, the...
Local governments throughout the west are undergoing a transformation of their leadership styles and structures. Some countries have abandoned traditi...
This book of critical essays explores new thinking and new evidence on the role of locally-elected representatives in Western democracies. The book is topical in the light of the intense political and popular interest in the problems of making local government representative and responsive. The contributors, drawn from the UK, US, France, Denmark and Norway, deal with two principal themes: political recruitment and representativeness; and the processes of political representation, and highlight the dilemmas of open and accessible local government.
This book of critical essays explores new thinking and new evidence on the role of locally-elected representatives in Western democracies. The book is...
This is an up-to-date and topical treatment of how six major cities in Europe, North America and Asia are coping with the new demands on urban government.
Population expansion, the migration of new peoples and disparities between cities and suburbs are longstanding features of the urban crisis. Today, city governments also face demands for popular participation and better public services while they struggle to position themselves in the new world economy. While each of the cities is located in its unique historical setting, the emphasis of the book is upon the common dilemmas...
This is an up-to-date and topical treatment of how six major cities in Europe, North America and Asia are coping with the new demands on urban gove...
Reviving local democracy offers a vivid and persuasive critical examination of New Labour's programme for the modernisation of local government, providing a balanced view of the democracy and participation debate. Since 1997, the Blair government has sought to mobilise popular participation through local referenda, new political structures, electoral reform, and the creation of powerful new elected mayors. Through these mechanisms it is hoped that the lack of public interest and persistently low election turnouts will be overcome.The book draws on a wide range of new survey data to relate the...
Reviving local democracy offers a vivid and persuasive critical examination of New Labour's programme for the modernisation of local government, provi...
It is seventeen years since I first formulated The paradox of the Chinese learner in a conference in Kathmandu, Nepal. My original formulation of the paradox was that westerners saw Chinese students as rote learning massive amounts of information in fierce exam-dominated classrooms yet in international comparisons, students in the Confucian heritage cla- rooms greatly outperformed western students learning in progressive western classrooms. This seeming paradox raised all sorts of questions to which many others have contributed important answers, especially that by Ference Marton on how...
It is seventeen years since I first formulated The paradox of the Chinese learner in a conference in Kathmandu, Nepal. My original formulation of the ...
This book compares primary education in urban and rural China and India. It focuses on how the sociocultural context including educational policy, educators and parents beliefs, and the conditions under which teaching and learning occur shape classroom pedagogy and determine children s attainment.
This in-depth, authentic, comparative analysis of the two largest educational systems in the world is a must-read for scholars interested in the teaching and learning in these two rapidly developing Asian cultures. A common set of questions has been addressed in diverse contexts. The empirical...
This book compares primary education in urban and rural China and India. It focuses on how the sociocultural context including educational policy, ...
India's cities are in the midst of an unprecedented urban expansion. While India is acknowledged as a rising power, poised to emerge into the front rank of global economies, the pace and scale of its urbanisation calls for more effective metropolitan management if that growth is not to be constrained by gathering urban crisis.
This book addresses some key issues of governance and management for India's principal urban areas of Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad. As three of the greatest Indian cities, they have evolved in recent decades into large metropolitan regions with complex,...
India's cities are in the midst of an unprecedented urban expansion. While India is acknowledged as a rising power, poised to emerge into the front...
