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Can Local Democracy Survive Governance?

Published on 1 May 2000

This paper will review the way in which initiatives to extend local democracy within a UK local government context have worked out in practice over the past two decades; explore the changing context within which these initiatives have taken place; and assess the possibilities for the future of local democracy. In the process, it will show how a relatively simple theoretical idea has become extremely complex in practice

Authors

Danny Burns

Professorial Research Fellow

Publication details

published by
Sage Journals
authors
Burns, D.
journal
Urban Studies, volume 37, issue 5-6

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