Local Government from Thatcher to Blair – The Politics of Creative Autonomy

Local Government from Thatcher to BlairThe Politics of Creative Autonomy\nAuthor(s): Hugh Atkinson, Stuart Wilks-Heeg\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9780745622033, 978-0745622033\nSynopsis\nThis accessible text summarizes and explains the structure of British local government, focusing on key changes introduced during the Thatcher/Major years and initiatives implemented by the current Labour administration. While offering a detailed discussion of these policies, the book examines how local government has sought to respond in a proactive way to a range of important social, political and economic changes. \n Readers are introduced to local government as a lively and complex site of political engagement. British local government is set in a wider political, social and theoretical context. Throughout, the authors argue that the attempt by the Thatcher and Major administrations of [tel] to push local government into t.