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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Act now
Common Sense Policy Group, Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson, Danny Dorling
Downward spiral
John Bowers
The Liberal Democrats
David Cutts, Andrew Russell, Joshua Harry Townsley
Local government and democracy in Britain
Neil Barnett, J. Chandler
Devolution in Greater Manchester and Liverpool City Region
Georgina Blakeley, Brendan Evans
In defence of councillors
Colin Copus
Breaking the deadlock
John Bartle, Nicholas J. Allen
Nostalgia and the post-war Labour Party
Richard Jobson
Democracy on demand
Matt Qvortrup
What about the workers?
Andrew Taylor
The end of populism
Marcel H. Van Herpen
Representative democracy?
Ron Johnston, Charles Pattie, David Rossiter
Labour and working-class lives
Keith Laybourn, John Shepherd
Labour united and divided from the 1830s to the present
Emmanuelle Avril, Yann BĂ©liard
The Conservative Party and the nation
Arthur Aughey
Direct democracy
Matt Qvortrup
Local democracy, civic engagement and community
Hugh Atkinson