Cochrane, Allan
(2004).
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/0300393042000318950 |
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Abstract
The story of local government over the last few decades is often summarised in the assertion that there has been a move away from institutional authority embodied in the structures of councils towards more complex networks of local governance, incorporating a range of stakeholders and other agencies, alongside a shift of power from local to central government. But local government has been at the centre of wider processes of restructuring - of attempts to modernise the welfare state, and specifically the local welfare state. Underpinning the changes that have faced local government (and created new forms of governance) has been a series of assumptions about welfare and how it is best delivered. These combine notions of community, neighbourhood, personal responsibility, workfare and partnership with a distrust of 'bureaucracy' and professional power. It is in this context that the 'modernisation' agenda - promising cultural change - has been driven forward, paradoxically combining a rhetoric of decentralisation and empowerment with an increasingly direct involvement by the institutions of central government and a range of other state agencies in the practice of 'local' governance. The emergent arrangements are increasingly characterised by forms of self-regulation as well as more differentiated management from above.
| Item Type: | Journal Item |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2004 Taylor & Francis Ltd. |
| ISSN: | 1743-9388 |
| Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Politics, Philosophy, Economics, Development, Geography Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | OpenSpace Research Centre (OSRC) |
| Item ID: | 3048 |
| Depositing User: | Users 6043 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jun 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Jul 2017 03:02 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/3048 |
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