Here’s Chris Game over on the excellent OpenDemocracy site. Chris is at the Institute for Local Government Studies at Birmingham University, and is writing here about Hazel Blears’ backtracking on local government reorganisation in the face of the economic downturn.
As is increasingly recognised, UK local government already operates on a scale that would prompt most [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Centralisation’
Does a slump slow down the process of centralisation?
Is the decline in local journalism damaging local democracy?
Here’s quite an old link I stumbled across while googling something else. It doesn’t do to only link to very new posts, does it?
“I don’t believe the intention is to destabilise democracy but that is the effect in many communities where the coverage of local politics has been downgraded by a loss of experienced staff [...]
MPs websites – politics on the rates?
As there are a couple of good posts in the mainstream political blogosphere touching upon the qualities that are needed to promote an effective representative democracy, today is a good day to start a blog on the subject. This post will focus on the most topical:
Both Puffbox and Spartakan are chewing over the fact that [...]
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