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Modern Local Government is a unique assessment of local government reform from the perspective of both local and central government, which is fully informed an analysis of the role of the European Union. This text provides a systematic review of the reform of local government since the election of New Labour in 1997.
Delivery with Partners – Procurement, Privatisation, Partnerships, Trading, and Choice
Delivery with Partners – Procurement, Privatisation, Partnerships, Trading, and Choice
Introduction
Much of the period 1979–1997 in local government was dominated by the impact of the introduction of privatisation into the delivery of local government services. The shock of this approach, in the imposition of privatisation on local government was possibly greater than the changes in working culture brought about by these processes within local government. Working with private sector and joint service delivery between local authorities had occurred before but the introduction of Compulsory Competitive Tendering (CCT) was seen as the embodiment of centralised control on local governance. Compulsion was required in part owing to the GATT/WTO international trade agreements delivered through the EU, although there ...
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