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Modernising British local government : an assessment of by John Stewart

By John Stewart

Labour's modernisation programme for neighborhood govt deals major new possibilities specifically when it comes to the powers and tasks in admire of neighborhood future health and of neighborhood professionals' personal position in neighborhood management. yet there also are many questions about the effectiveness of the reforms and, particularly, their effect on democracy, responsibility and native autonomy, argues John Stewart during this severe overview of the demanding situations and customers for British neighborhood executive within the 2000s.

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They are found in Switzerland and parts of the United States, and, to a limited extent, in parish meetings in the United Kingdom. Town meetings in areas with large populations are either impractical or are meetings of the few. Referendums can only cover a fraction of the decisions to be made. Direct democracy cannot replace representative democracy generally, although there is a place for referendums on specific issues and for parish meetings at a very local level. Participatory democracy does not replace representative democracy but informs it.

These policies reinforce the bottom-up approach to community planning, but highlight the tensions between macro and micro approaches. The national strategy for neighbourhood renewal was set out in A New Commitment to Neighbourhood Renewal (Cabinet Office, 2001). , p. 7). , p. 25). Local strategic partnerships developed as a concept for neighbourhood renewal have been adopted for community strategies. In doing so, LSPs may have become less effective for neighbourhood renewal. Work on community strategies may dominate, limiting work on neighbourhood renewal, focused as it is on particular deprived neighbourhoods.

In Modern Local Government it proposed that in counties and all shire districts there would be elections by halves, arranged so that in a fouryear period there would be elections every year, two for the county and two for the district. It still proposed that there should be annual elections in London boroughs and unitary authorities, as in metropolitan districts, with a fallow year which could be used for mayoral or other elections. The changes were still opposed by those authorities whose electoral cycle would be changed.

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