Neil Barnett is a Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Leeds Beckett University Jim Chandler is Emeritus Professor for Local Governance at Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University and has published extensively on Local Government and Public Policy
Introduction
Part I The development and structure of democratic local government in the
United Kingdom
2. Theories on the democratic value of local government
3. A short history of United Kingdom local government to 2010
4. Local government today: structure and policy making
5. Local government today: powers, services and resources
6. From local government to national governance of localities
Part II Critique of the present system
7. Local government is not local
8.Local government does not govern
9. How central government policy makers view the system: the basis of the
instrumentalism
10. How local government can help create a revitalised liberal democracy
11. Conclusion
