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The coalition government’s ‘new localism’ decentralisation agenda may well undermine local government. A new agreement is needed

Jones, George W. (2010) The coalition government’s ‘new localism’ decentralisation agenda may well undermine local government. A new agreement is needed. British Politics and Policy at LSE (22 Nov 2010). Website.

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Abstract

Conservative and Liberal Democrat ministers have sought maximum publicity for their policies of decentralisation. But LSE emeritus professor George Jones finds that the steps taken and proposed will in fact encourage a creeping centralization of many more policy areas away from local authority control. Ministers are essentially promoting sub-localism, taking powers from councils allegedly to give to ‘Big Society’ actors below the local- authority level, but ineluctably sucking up key control functions to Whitehall at the same time. A new agreement is now needed between central and local government to prevent these repeated squeezes of local powers and competencies by successive governments

Item Type: Online resource (Website)
Official URL: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/
Additional Information: © 2011 The Author
Divisions: Government
Public Policy Group
Subjects: J Political Science > JA Political science (General)
J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Date Deposited: 13 Jan 2012 12:04
Last Modified: 13 Sep 2024 17:44
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/41435

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