Regulating Local Authorities : Emerging Patterns of Central Control

Carmichael, Paul (EDT)/ Midwinter, Arthur F. (EDT)

Routledge（2003/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 164 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780714653730
• DDC分類 320.8

基本説明

Explores how central governments increasingly control local governments, with examples from the UK and Europe.

Full Description

By examining the relationship between central governments and local authorities in a number of countries, the contributors to this study show how central governments exercise control and influence over the activities of local authorities.

Contents

Central-local relations since the Layfield Report; intergovernmental relations in Scotland post-devolution; central grants and local spending in Britain; guide democracy or multi-level governance? New trends in regulatory regimes in central-local relations in the Nordic countries; central government over local government - a Western European comparison; central-local financial relations in South Africa; between rhetoric and reality - does the 2001 White Paper reverse the centralizing trend in Britain?