Local Government from Thatcher to Blair
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- ISBN 9780745622033
- Weight: 581g
- Dimensions: 158 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 18 Oct 2000
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Readers are introduced to local government as a lively and complex site of political engagement. British local government is set in a wider political, social and theoretical context. Throughout, the authors argue that the attempt by the Thatcher and Major administrations of 1979-97 to push local government into the role of merely administrating centrally defined policies was largely short-circuited. While outlining and explaining these changes and their effects, the authors argue that far from being defenceless victims of central government, local authorities devised numerous strategies to protect their independent policy-making role. The authors go on to examine the proposals for change introduced by the Labour government and assess their implications for local government in the twenty-first century.
This book will be essential reading for lecturers and students of local government, politics, public policy and urban policy, as well as practitioners.
Stuart Wilks-Heeg has researched and published widely in the area of local government and urban policy, and is the co-author of British Local Government since 1979; The End of an era? and Talking About Tomorrow: A new Radical Politics., he is Research Fellow, Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures, University of Salford.
