The New Politics of British Local Governance

SIMONE ABRAM Department of Geography, University College of Swansea STEFANIA ABRAR Equality Officer, National Lottery Charities Board SUE BROWNILL School of Planning, Oxford Brookes University ALISTAIR COLE Department of European Studies, Bradford University DAVID CLAPHAM Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Wales, Cardiff DAVINA COOPER Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Keele MALCOLM DICKSON Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Strathclyde KEITH DOWDING Reader, London School of Economics and Political Science PATRICK DUNLEAVY Professor, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science MARK GOODWIN Institute of Earth Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth DECLAN HALL Lecturer, Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham ALAN HARDING Professor, European Institute for Urban Affairs, Liverpool John Moores University IAN HOLLIDAY Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Manchester BOB JESSOP Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Lancaster PETER JOHN Reader, Department of Politics, University of Southampton HELEN KAY Research Consultant, Central Research Unit of the Scottish Office DESMOND KING Professor of Politics, St Johns College, University of Oxford KEITH KINTREA Professor, Centre for Housing and Urban Studies, University of Glasgow STEVE LEACH Professor, Department of Public Policy and Managerial Studies, De Montfort University HELEN MARGETTS Lecturer in Politics, Birkbeck College, London TERRY MARSDEN Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Wales, Cardiff BILL MILLER Professor of Politics, University of Glasgow JONATHAN MURDOCH Department of City & Regional Planning, University of Wales, Cardiff JOE PAINTER Department of Geography, University of Durham KONNIE RAZZAQUE Faculty of the Built Environment, University of the West of England R.A.W. RHODES Professor of Politics, University of Newcastle YVONNE RYDIN Reader, Department of Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science TAMSIN STIRLING Chartered Institute of Housing, Wales GERRY STOKER Professor of Politics, University of Strathclyde HUW THOMAS Department of City & Regional Planning, University of Wales, Cardiff STEPHEN C. YOUNG Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Manchester

This book examines the changing nature of local politics, drawing on the latest research from the ESRC Local Governance Programme. Public responses to changes in local governance are covered in depth including new forms of participation and protest.This book examines the changing nature of local politics, drawing on the latest research from the ESRC Local Governance Programme. It assesses the emergence of new forms of élite organisations and changing power relations in the context of increasing roles for business and other partners. Public responses to changes in local governance are covered in depth including new forms of participation and protest. The book concludes with a consideration of the extent to which the emerging system of local governance can meet the social and economic challenges created by globalization.