... and local basis for governance to one increasingly conducted privately and behind closed doors. Increasing centralisation of government, allied with the deliberate reduction of local government, has led to governance arrangements conducted more and more remotely. The chaotic muddle and chaos...

... in Scotland. It considers two key dimensions: the dual and simultaneous processes of centralisation and localism within governance frameworks; and the contested concepts of citizenship and responsibility for governing ASB, mediated by the interface between formal and informal mechanisms of social control...

...This chapter takes a long view of the British state and its geographical division of powers. Stretching over 500 years the chapter looks at the history of local government and its origins in the parish. It then focuses on the gradual centralisation and standardisation that took place from the early...

..., and ends new thinking. The chapter ends with a review of arms-length bodies, their role and that of Ofsted accountability centralisation Davis Aeron funding allocations Her Majesty’s Treasury national policy making policy making academisation Department for Education DfE Gove Michael multi...

...The story of austerity is entwined with experiments in city-regionalism, authoritarianism, fiscal and political centralisation and downloading or scalar dumping. Interpenetrating institutional, territorial and scalar restructurings have significant implications for politics and governing cultures...