...This chapter analyses the position of a directly elected mayor as a mechanism to deliver transformative change to local government in England. Through a narrative exploration of the trajectory of mayoral governance in the City of Bristol, analysis interrogates where the model has succeeded, where...

... 2011 austerity measures and cuts to local budgets Bristol central–local relations financial cuts local government Hambleton Robin Liverpool service delivery Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016 devolution England financial powers powers of mayor Public Services Social Value Act...

... leadership local government United States reform council Manager In the US, the issue of electing mayors is complex and segmented, and it has changed over time. It is linked to additional issues related to form of government and professionalism in the governmental structure. The questions about mayors...

... governance. The comment by Trotter draws attention to the constitutional framework within which mayors and councillors operate and the effect of other aspects of these arrangements on the exercise of mayor power. Governing capacity involves the deployment of resources, nongovernmental as well as governmental...

... campaign for the whole term of his office and he has greater access to local media and non-governmental organisations than anyone opposing him’. Indeed, in almost 10% of mayoral elections there was only one candidate, who nonetheless had to gain more than 50% of the votes cast ( Trutkowski and Kurniewicz...

... the local police have responded to the issue, e.g. use of Section 4B. Court delays are commonplace. Local authority responses and those of animal welfare agencies are also reviewed, setting out the relevant legislation. Government initiatives are considered alongside US anti-dog-fighting programmes...

... by competitive examination indicate that Brazil's democracy is being strengthened. It is argued that in spite of the multiple mechanisms used by different governments and political regimes to recruit for the bureaucracy, the federal executive was always able to construct bureaucratic capabilities to meet its...

... by non-governmental actors. Introduced in 2004, the Multi-Year Plan Monitoring and Evaluation System (Sistema de Monitoramento e Avaliação do Plano Plurianual; SMA) integrated an M&E commission (CMA) (representing the core government agencies: Ministry of Planning, Presidential Chief of Staff...

...This chapter provides the story of Barkat Bibi. She does not know in what year she was born, because, in those days, they did not have ways of documenting people's dates of birth. Barkat was born in Pakistan, where people trusted the decisions that their parents made for them. The government...

...This chapter examines the partnerships between black and ethnic minority voluntary organisations and local government in England as a way to challenge racism. It considers the stresses and strains in maintaining partnerships that are designed to bring about change or challenge oppression...

...This chapter outlines the available approaches to understanding and interpreting local population change, in the context of government policy for community cohesion. It first addresses the claims that residential segregation is dangerous and friendship networks are polarised. The chapter...

... are their fault and if established residents’ fears are not addressed. The work of Praxis (the non-governmental organisation featured in Chapter Eleven , which seeks to help new migrants to settle) in going beyond help to individual migrants and adopting a community development approach to empower both...

...This chapter draws on textual analysis of ministerial speeches, government documents, so-called grey literature, and interviews to present the key themes of the personalisation narrative. It shows how the narrative deploys the testimonies of social care service users alongside formal evidence...

...This book is composed of the proceedings of the symposium held in May 2008 that examined the government policy on prisons and imprisonment. This event was organised by the three research centres in the School of Law at King's College London: the Institute of Criminal Policy Research, the Centre...

.... In addition to assessing the impact of the consultation on penal policy, the endnote also discusses: the growing criticism of government policy on imprisonment and the Carter Report; the four policy areas of the government that focused on the aspects of community sentences, women offenders, juvenile offenders...

... dependency Beck U Ortiz I redistribution Barr N Quattrone G Sahlins M Tversky A government role of Andries M Bramley G Smart G communitarianism dignity equality self determination MacIntyre A competition UK Parliament market failure maximisation of utility non market failure targeting...

... 3,785.45 Prison Service 10,384.62 NHS 5,893.00 Total 60,805.55 Figure 16.1: Revised model of voluntary and community sector engagement with Integrated Offender Management The UK’s Coalition government places ‘Big Society’ firmly at the heart of public service delivery...

... was that the network was not developing as intended. The idea of a faith network had been promising initially but it then stalled for reasons discussed below. Although some committed members continued to meet occasionally, the website attracted little interest and became dormant. Recent governmental commitment...

... disrespectful and therefore counterproductive. It explores the issue of ‘informal social control’ as an alternative to governmental approaches, arguing that this is better understood as a type of self-governance. It concludes with suggestions on how mutual respect and recognition may be better promoted...

...The introduction or promotion of policy analysis in Japan has been conditioned by Japanese governmental structure and her typical policy process. Japanese government has a strong centrifugal tendency, because political parties are member oriented and dispersed in nature, weak cabinets consist...