Regulation of Local Government in UK Law
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Labour’s Modernization of Local Government
The modernization of local government is central to the government’s plans to revitalize the UK’s constitutional arrangements. Implicitly managerialist, the modernizing local government project als...... ... Translated into policy, these themes are articulated as leadership, community, democracy and regulation. However, these elements are potentially contradictory and may produce tensions in the project that may be difficult to resolve. By reviewing the ... ...
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Values and Purpose in Government: Central‐local Relations in Regulatory Perspective
This paper explores the relationship between theories of regulation and governmentality, showing how a synthesis of the two approaches may be used in the analysis of central‐local relations. The ba...... ... : Central-local Relations in Regulatory Perspective Peter Vincent-Jones* This paper explores the relationship between theories of regulation and governmentality, showing how a synthesis of the two approaches may be used in the analysis of central-local relations. The basis of the current ... ...
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PUBLIC SERVICE IMPROVEMENT: POLICIES, PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS ‐ Editied by Steve Martin
... ... , specifi cally those provided by English local authorities. The vol- ume focuses on the steps ken by central and local government to improve and enhance the economy, effi ... of ’ hard edged ’ central regulation. The chapter on leadership discusses the ... ...
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Competition and Contracting in the Transition from CCT to Best Value: Towards a More Reflexive Regulation?
Following publication of the government’s proposals for a statutory framework of Best Value, and the introduction of regulations increasing the flexibility of CCT pending its abolition, this paper ...... ... REGULATION? PETER VINCENT-JONES Following publication of the government’s proposals for a statutory framework of Best Value, and the ... Third, the paper argues that local authorities are likely to want to retain and develop contracting ... ...
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CENTRAL REGULATION OF ENGLISH LOCAL AUTHORITIES: AN EXAMPLE OF META‐GOVERNANCE?
This paper discusses how the UK government has reconfigured its regulation of English local authorities by moving from direct oversight to using an indirect independent agency as a vehicle of meta‐...... ... ENGLISH LOCAL AUTHORITIES: AN EXAMPLE OF MET A-GOVERNANCE? JOSIE KELL Y This paper discusses how the UK government has reconfi gured its regulation of English local authorities by moving from direct oversight to using an indirect independent agency as a ... ...
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Compulsory competition for local Government services in the UK: A case of market rhetoric and camouflaged centralism
Recent years have witnessed a considerable extension in the defined activities covered by the CCT regime in UK local government. While the 1980s saw CCT applied to mainly manual services (such as r...... ... implications, this article argues that its more important political impact has been to intensify central control and regulation in order to restructure the local welfare state. In this sense, the vocabulary of the market has served to camouflage a process ... ...
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Implementing ‘Best Value’: Local Public Services in Transition
This paper examines the impacts of the ‘Best Value’ regime on the management of local public services in the UK. It argues that the regime marks an important shift in the framework of national regu...... ... regime marks an important shift in the framework of national regulation of local authorities and the services they provide but that the ... in public services and will require local and central government to embrace new approaches to learning. Steve Martin is Reader in Public ... ...
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The Audit Commission: guiding, steering and regulating local government
How does the non‐executant state ensure that its agents are fulfilling their obligations to deliver nationally determined policies? In the case of elected local government in England and Wales, thi...... ... However, the expansion of state regulation of local government in the recent past has expanded from earlier forms of oversight, to ensure councils exercise prob- ity and legality, to a ... ...
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The Curious Absence of Inter-municipal Cooperation in England
In Europe local authorities often work with their neighbouring municipalities, whether to address a specific task or goal or through the course of regular policy making and implementation. In Engla...... ... Abstract ... In Europe local authorities often work with their neighbouring ... The present government has encouraged councils to work in partnership ... , such as partnerships and extended regulation and oversight (Bevir, 2005; Kelly, 2006, 2007; ... ...
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Markets, Quasi-Markets and Middle Managers in Local Government
Operating as purchasers or providers, middle managers play a key role in the implementation of the new market systems recently introduced within local authorities. However, relatively little empiri...... ... These include (amongst others), over-regulation of professional work activities, increased scope for opportunistic forms of behaviour, demotivated employees, and 'a rapid middle-level ... ...
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