This book explores the variety of ways in which local authorities have been attempting to get closer to the public they serve. It traces the emerging pressure for more responsive and accountable local government, examines the various initiatives from decentralisation through customer care to privatisation and discusses some of the questions posed by these new patterns of working. 'This informative and thought-provoking book...displaying the author's customary level of scholarship...should be required reading for all those who need to keep abreast of developments in local government'. - Michael Thrasher, Political Studies "Goes way beyond the recycling of best practice case studies...useful though they are in accessible paperback form". C.Game, Local Government Chronicle.
- ISBN10 0333525345
- ISBN13 9780333525340
- Publish Date 11 September 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 June 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 232
- Language English