Renewing Local Democracy?: The Modernisation Agenda in British Local Government
β Scribed by Lawrence Pratchett
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 152
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Bringing together research on different features of the democratic renewal agenda to investigate how local authorities are responding, this text includes a contribution from the main architect of the modernization, Local Government Minister Hilary Armstrong.
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