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National Indicators and Local Area Agreements – A Way Forward or a Backward Step for Delivering the Health, Housing & Well-Being Agenda?

National models for continuing professional development: the challenges of twenty-first-century knowledge management

Necessity as the Mother of Reinvention: Discourses of Innovation in Local Government

Griggs, Steven; Sullivan, Helen (Book chapter)

Negotiating the Delivery of Gypsy & Traveller Sites through Local Planning

Richardson, Jo; Peat, Tristan (Technical Report)

The 20 page report “Negotiating the delivery of Gypsy &Traveller sites through local planning” has found no substantive evidence to support the assertions made by some developers that the inclusion of pitches in housing ...

Neighbourhood governance: Contested rationales within a multi-level setting - a study of Manchester.

Durose, Catherine; Lowndes, Vivien (Article)

'Neighbourhood' is a long standing concept in local governance which was re-energised as part of the post-1997 New Labour policy paradigm. This paper builds on the work of Lowndes and Sullivan which identified four distinct ...

'Neighbourhood': a site for policy action, governance ... and empowerment?

Durose, Catherine; Richardson, Liz (Book chapter)

Nemesis of market fundamentalism? The ideology, deregulation and crisis of finance.

Lambie, George (Article)

Network governance in Russia: an analytical framework

Davies, Jonathan S.; Holm-‐Hansen, Jorn; Kononenko, Vadim; Roiseland, Asbjorn (Article)

This article questions the widely held notions of Russian exceptionalism as regards its state–society relations, arguing that the conceptual tools used to study governance in other regions and contexts are applicable in ...

Network Governance Theory: A Gramscian Critique

Davies, Jonathan S. (Article)

Influential governance theories argue that we live increasingly in a world of networks, either relegating hierarchy to the shadows or dismissing it altogether. This paper develops a Gramscian critique of these currents, ...

'Neutral' experts? How input of scientific expertise matters in international environmental negotiations

Rietig, Katharina (Article)

Never Mind the Details: Here's the Tea Party'

Harrington, Clodagh (Book chapter)

This chapter examines the rise of the Tea Party movement in the US during the early days of the Obama administration. The contradictions, conflicts and energy of this mixed bag of conservatives, libertarians and evangelicals ...

New and Established Mayoralties: Lessons for Local Governance in Constructing New Political Institutions: The English and Polish Cases

Copus, Colin; Blair, Alasdair; Szmigiel-Rawska, Katarzyna; Dadd, Michael (Book chapter)

Reforming local government is a tool of government policy when faced with local, national and international pressures for change and no more so than in times of political, social and economic crises. The re-design of the ...