The Politics of Local Government (Public Policy and Politics)

Politics & Social Sciences

Gerry Stoker

Politics & Government

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

<p>Drawing on the author's unrivalled experience and expertise in both research and policy-making, this important new book provides a systematic assessment of the changing nature of local governance in Britain and a conceptual framework for understanding the new governance of localities. The author analyzes in detail what New Labour has been trying to do to local governance and management and assesses how and why it has achieved only a mixed record of change. The book concludes by providing a vision of good local governance and an assessment of future challenges for research and reform.</p>

Gbc;Standing Order Sbn (Pr)

Macmillan Dummy List

<p>The search for a more holistic approach to policy and management looks set to be as much a hallmark of public service reform in the early twenty first century as the changes introduced under the rubric of 'new public management' or 'reinventing government' were in the closing decades of the twentieth. Towards Holistic Governance presents an authoritative assessment of successes and failures to date and a new framework for analysis and implementation based on extensive research both in the UK - where the New Labour government has been an early enthusiast and pathfinder for 'joined-up government' just as its predecessors were for privatisation and contracting out - and elsewhere.</p>

Towards Holistic Governance: The New Reform Agenda (Government beyond the Centre, 21)

Perri 6

Diana Leat

Kimberly Seltzer

Red Globe Press

Nuclear Power and Energy Policy

Keith Baker

Springer Nature

How can governments persuade citizens to act in socially beneficial ways? Thaler and Sunstein's book Nudge drew on work from behavioral economics to claim that citizens might be encouraged through ‘light touch interventions’ (i.e.nudges) to take action. In this ground-breaking successor to Nudge, Peter John and his colleagues argue that an alternative approach also needs to be considered, based on what they call a 'think' strategy. Their core idea is that citizens should themselves deliberate and decide their own priorities as part of a process of civic and democratic renewal. The authors not only set out these divergent approaches in theory but they offer evidence from a series of experiments to show how using techniques from ‘nudge’ or ‘think’ repertoires work in practice and how that practice is made effective. The book is unique in exploring an expanding field of policy and social science interest - changing civic behavior, using insights from another growing field of social science interest - the rise of experimental methods.

Nudge, Nudge, Think, Think: Experimenting with Ways to Change Civic Behaviour

Graham Smith

PETER, JOHN

Sarah Cotterill

Liz Richardson

Alice Moseley

Corinne Wales

Social Sciences

Bloomsbury Academic

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