Who stole the town hall? : the end of local government as we know it /

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Arguing that the UK Government intends to privatise all local services through its devolution agenda, Peter Latham proposes a new basis for federal, regional and local democracy, including land value taxation and a wealth tax.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Latham, Peter, 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2017.
Colección:Policy Press shorts. Policy & practice.
Temas:
Local government > Great Britain.
Administration locale > Grande-Bretagne.
88.13 local government bodies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Regional Planning.
Local government
Great Britain
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • WHO STOLE THE TOWN HALL?
  • Contents
  • List of tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • About the author
  • List of abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Localism Act, Open Public Services and the neoliberalisation of councils
  • Governance
  • Open Public Services
  • Outsourcing
  • The neoliberal transformation of cities and councils
  • 2. Imposed 'metro' mayors
  • new wine in old bottles
  • Greater London
  • Local authority DEMs in England
  • Imposed DEM referendums
  • Nine out of the 10 cities with imposed mayoral referendums rejected DEMs on 3 May 2012
  • DEMs lead to cronyism, patronage and corruption
  • DEMs remove the working class from this layer of local democracy and replace them with a brigade of full-time career politicians
  • DEMs are the optimal internal management arrangement for privatised local government services
  • DEMs create an arena focused on personalities, not politics
  • DEM referendums have not increased turnout and lack voter support
  • DEM elections have not increased turnout and lack voter support
  • DEMs have an undemocratic voting system
  • DEMs cannot be removed
  • Combined authorities and imposed DEMs
  • 3. Police and Crime Commissioners
  • another 'half-baked import'
  • The governance system before PCCs
  • The Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011
  • PCCs lead to cronyism and patronage
  • PCCs lead to corruption
  • PCCs are a monoculture that excludes the working class
  • PCCs are the optimal internal management arrangement for a privatised police service
  • PCCs are invisible
  • PCCs have not increased turnout and lack voter support
  • PCCs have an undemocratic voting system
  • PCCs cannot be removed
  • Empowered police authorities versus PCCs
  • 4. Local governmentfinance
  • Financial provisions of the Localism Act and subsequent legislation
  • Private and public sector employment.
  • UK public expenditure
  • Financing of UK local government
  • Councils were cut earlier and harder than the rest of the public sector
  • A new system of local government finance based on Land Value Tax
  • 5. Towards a new basis for federal, regional and local democracy
  • The continuing relevance of the Marxist approach in political science
  • Further deconstructing the European Union dimension
  • Laying the basis for 'socialist decentralisation'
  • The current balance of political forces in the UK
  • The crisis of working-class political representation and ways in which it is now beginning to be addressed
  • References
  • Index.

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