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FACILITATING CHOICE IN ENGLISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Author(s) -
Bailey Stephen J.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.2006.00606.x
Subject(s) - centralisation , local government , statutory law , scope (computer science) , democracy , service (business) , decentralization , public economics , public administration , government (linguistics) , economics , business , political science , marketing , law , politics , market economy , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , programming language
This paper examines recent policies to enhance the scope for choice by the users of local government services in England. It questions whether they can offset the progressively increasing restriction of local democratic choices that have resulted from the trend towards increasing centralisation of local finance and statutory controls over service standards.