Renewing Public Management provides essential guidance in dealing with: * political leadership, the changing political management of local government * the development of strategy, purpose and direction * organisational issues which arise when working across organisational boundaries * decentralisation and relations between different levels of local government * the new world of central management This key text is from theManaging Local Government Series which is published in association with the Institute of Local Government Studies (INLOGOV) at the School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham.