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The New Management of British Local Governance

  • Textbook
  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Gerry Stoker

    1. University of Strathclyde, UK

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    • Specially commissioned chapters summarising the latest research on local public management in the UK.
    • Fully uptodate in reflecting the changing patterns of local management 
    • Essential reading for both students and practitioners

Part of the book series: Government beyond the Centre (GBC)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Introduction: The Unintended Costs and Benefits of New Management Reform for British Local Government

    • Gerry Stoker
    Pages 1-21

  3. Management Change in Local Governance

    • Vivien Lowndes
    Pages 22-39

  4. Letting Managers Manage: Decentralisation and Opting Out

    • Christopher Pollitt, Johnston Birchall, Keith Putman
    Pages 40-61

  5. The Contracting-Out of Local Government Services: Its Impact on Jobs, Conditions of Service and Labour Markets

    • Kevin Doogan
    Pages 62-78

  6. Two Economic Discourses in the New Management of Local Governance: Public Trading and Public Business

    • Maureen Mackintosh
    Pages 79-96

  7. The New Management and Governance of Education

    • Stewart Ranson, Jane Martin, Penny McKeown, Jon Nixon
    Pages 97-111

  8. The New Management of Community Care: User Groups, Citizenship and Co-Production

    • Marian Barnes, Steve Harrison, Maggie Mort, Polly Shardlow, Gerald Wistow
    Pages 112-127

  9. Reframing the Delivery of Local Housing Services: Networks and the New Competition

    • Barbara Reid
    Pages 128-144

  10. Community Governance of Crime Control

    • John Benyon, Adam Edwards
    Pages 145-167

  11. Networks in Post-16 Education and Training

    • Kathryn Riley
    Pages 168-180

  12. Networking for Local Economic Development

    • Kevin Morgan, Gareth Rees, Shari Garmise
    Pages 181-196

  13. Networking in Europe

    • John Benington, Janet Harvey
    Pages 197-221

  14. The Private Financing of Public Infrastructure

    • David Heald, Neal Geaughan
    Pages 222-236

  15. Something Old, Something New

    • Jeffrey Stanyer
    Pages 237-248

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 249-280
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About this book

This book presents a detailed analysis of the new management of public services at the local level, drawing on the work of the ESRC Local Governance Programme. The radical transformation of public service delivery is assessed in terms of its overall impact as well as its operation in particular service areas. Efficiency has improved and services have gained a user focus yet the new management appears to be full of contradictions and distortions, in many respects creating as many problems as it solves.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Strathclyde, UK

    Gerry Stoker

About the editor

GERRY STOKER is Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde. He was Programme Director of the five-year ESRC Local Governance Research Programme (1992-7) and a member of The Commission for Local Democracy (1993-6). In 1996 he was a founding member of the New Local Government Network and in 1997 he became a member of the Academic Advisory Group to DETR.

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