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Transforming Local Governance: From Thatcherism to New Labour (Government Beyond the Centre)
Transforming Local Governance From Thatcherism to New Labour - Government Beyond the Centre Author:Gerry Stoker Drawing on the author's unrivalled experience and expertise in both research and policy-making, this important new book provides a systematic assessment of the changing nature of local governance in Britain and a conceptual framework for understanding the new governance of localities. The author analyzes in detail what New Labour has been trying... more » to do to local governance and management and assesses how and why it has achieved only a mixed record of change. The book concludes by providing a vision of good local governance and an assessment of future challenges for research and reform.« less