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SINGLE ISSUE LOCAL AUTHORITY ASSOCIATIONS: A NEW SPECIES FOR A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT
Author(s) -
GLADSTONE BRYAN,
DUNCAN SIOBHAN
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.313
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-9299
pISSN - 0033-3298
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9299.1994.tb01020.x
Subject(s) - local authority , local government , restructuring , local governance , local community , power (physics) , corporate governance , public administration , political science , theme (computing) , public authority , business , law , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , computer science , operating system
The purpose of this article is to explore the emergence of single issue local authority associations as a response to the changing nature of the central‐local government policy community in the past decade. The main theme of the article is that a gap has been created by the restructuring of local governance that neither individual local authorities nor the broad local authority associations are equipped to fill. Hence, new single issue local authority associations such as the Coalfield Communities Campaign , have been formed. They are necessitated by the unwillingness of broad local authority associations to preoccupy themselves with sectional and possibly divisive single issues and the inability of individual local authorities to command sufficient power within the policy community. As such they may well represent a fundamental change in the policy network, though it remains to be seen whether or not they will have a long‐term role.