Voters in England return to the polls this week (2nd May) to vote in the last local elections before the General Election.
Longstanding MUP author and local government expert, Professor Jim Chandler, gave us his insight :
“The local election results will be viewed in the national media to be a pointer to a change in government following the forthcoming General Election, but it remains to be seen if this would greatly change the present malaise of a local government system mired in a sea of debt and centrally imposed restraints.” Professor Jim Chandler, co-author with Neil Barnett of Local government and democracy in Britain
Jim’s new book is collected here with other key selected titles on local government and democracy from Manchester University Press.
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Downward spiral
The Liberal Democrats
Local government and democracy in Britain
Devolution in Greater Manchester and Liverpool City Region
Derailed
In defence of councillors
Breaking the deadlock
Nostalgia and the post-war Labour Party
Democracy on demand
What about the workers?
The end of populism
Representative democracy?
Labour and working-class lives
Labour united and divided from the 1830s to the present
The Conservative Party and the nation
Direct democracy
Local democracy, civic engagement and community