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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Lowndes, Vivien |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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Between rhetoric and reality: does the 2001 white paper reverse the centralising trend in Britain |
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2002 |
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p.135-47. |
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Autumn |
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This article assesses the government's claim that the White Paper, Strong Local Leadership - Quality Public Services (2001), reverses the centralising trend of the previous 20 years. It is argued that the `confessions and concessions' of the White Paper do not actually represent a reduction of centralism or any enhancement of local government autonomy. where controls are relaxed, these are primarily managerial rather than political; delivery rather than democracy is the primary focus of attention. Increasingly sophisticated approaches to performance management signal both a new form of centralism and a challenge to the traditional bilateral model of central-local relations. - Reproduced. |
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Local government - Great Britain |
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Local government |
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Local Government Studies |
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