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Commonwealth
decentralisation
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- ISBN 9781849290937
- Dimensions: 165 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2013
- Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Democratic decentralisation through ‘conventional’ institutions of local government is facing increasing challenges, whether from financial pressures, questions of representativeness, difficult central-local relations and from a perhaps growing belief that local government has failed to realise its potential and there may be better ways of achieving societal goals. It is clear there is need to contemplate quite radical change to ensure local government becomes or remains ‘fit for purpose’.
This collection of papers illustrates the way in which the role of local government is evolving in different parts of the Commonwealth and provides practical examples of new local government at work. It showcases emerging practice, and highlights success stories from new ways of working and challenges confronting local government in both developed and developing countries.
New Century Local Government makes a very valuable contribution to helping understand the changing role of local government, and will ensure that practitioners are up-to-date with the most innovative initiatives in local government planning and administration.
Graham Sansom is Chair of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum’s Research Advisory Group and Director of the Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government. Peter McKinlay is Director of the Local Government Centre at AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand.
