Reviving Local Democracy

Reviving Local Democracy
Author: Nirmala Rao
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2000-09-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781861342188

This book offers a vivid and persuasive critical examination of New Labour's programme for the modernisation of local government, providing a balanced view of the democracy and participation debate. It draws on a wide range of new survey data to relate the crisis of local politics and governance to wider changes in the political culture.

Kent in the Twentieth Century

Kent in the Twentieth Century
Author: Nigel Yates
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780851155876

This is the sixth volume of the ten-volume history of the county of Kent. Each of the 10 chapters begins by evoking a picture of Kent on the eve of World War I and looks at the changes between then and the present day in the area under construction.

The Self-contained Village?

The Self-contained Village?
Author: Christopher Dyer
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781902806594

These essays show how historical revisionism has overturned the view that English villages, before industrialization, hadself-sufficient economies and populations largely separated from the outside world. Topics include demography, migration, agriculture, inheritance, politics, employment, industry, and markets, and covers such communities as Norfolk and Westmorland."

Dream Deck

Dream Deck
Author:
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 310
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 9780811831413