Local democracy reading list

Posted by jenhoward - Wednesday, 1 May 2024

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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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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

Derailed

Tom Haines-Doran

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

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