This book aims to provide an overview of present changes in local government management. It also considers the management trends and issues for the 1990s in the light of legislative changes and the way in which the way the role of local government has changed. The book is intended for use by chief officers in local authorities, their senior staff and those seeking management positions. It is also intended to be useful to councellors and lecturers on public administration courses.

Understanding the Management of Local Government will enable you to gain a better understanding of those purposes, conditions and tasks involved in effective management. It will help you to:

support value choice and the political processes which lie at the heart of local government fulfil the needs of public accountability rise to the challenge of developing organisations and management to provide community leadership

This key text is from the Managing 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.