This pioneering book seeks to identify many of the new and some of the old players on the local pitch. It examines the way elected councils and appointed public agencies work together (and sometimes fail to work together) with business and voluntary organizations to deliver services and shape decisions which vitally affect local communities. Along the way, many key questions are addressed: How far are non-elected agencies accountable to the public? How can local people influence the decisions which affect them? How can business and voluntary organizations be brought into a real partnership with the public sector at local level? Does this emerging new system of local governance involve a "third way" between local bureaucracy and the free market? Can it achieve the Prime Minister's ideal of joined-up government' or will its sheer complexity result in chaos and confusion? Paying full attention to all aspects of...

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