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The New Management of British Local Governance The New Management of British Local Governance Edited by Gerry Stoker Foreword by R. A. W. Rhodes E·S·R·C ECONOMIC Published in association with the & SOCIAL RESEARCH Macmillan Education COUNCIL First published in Great Britain 1999 by MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-0-333-72816-1 ISBN 978-1-349-27295-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-27295-2 First published in the United States of America 1999 by ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC., Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 ISBN 978-0-312-21970-3 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The new management of British local governance /edited by Gerry Stoker. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-312-21970-3 (cloth) 1. Local government-Great Britain. I. Stoker, Gerry. JS3158.N48 1998 352.14'0941-dc21 98-43080 CIP Selection, editorial matter and Chapter 1© Gerry Stoker 1999 Foreword© R. A. W. Rhodes 1999 Individual chapters (in order) © Vivien Lowndes; Christopher Pollitt, Johnston Birchall and Keith Putnam; Kevin Doogan; Maureen Mackintosh; Stewart Ranson, Jane Martin, Penny McKeown and Jon Nixon; Marian Barnes, Steve Harrison, Maggie Mort, Polly Shardlow and Gerald Wistow; Barbara Reid; John Benyon and Adam Edwards; Kathryn Riley; Kevin Morgan, Gareth Rees and Shari Garmise;J ohn Benington and Janet Harvey; David Heald and Neal Geaughan; Jeffrey Stanyer 1999 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. 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He was a member of the ESRC's Local Governance Programme and a good friend and valued colleague Contents List of Tables and Figures ix List of Contributors X Foreword: Governance and Networks Xll 1 Introduction: The Unintended Costs and Benefits of New Management Reform for British Local Government 1 Gerry Stoker 2 Management Change in Local Governance 22 Vivien Lowndes 3 Letting Managers Manage: Decentralisation and Opting- a~ ~ Christopher Pollitt, Johnston Birchall and Keith Putman 4 The Contracting-Out of Local Government Services: Its Impact on Jobs, Conditions of Service and Labour Markets 62 Kevin Doogan 5 Two Economic Discourses in the New Management of Local Governance: 'Public Trading' and 'Public Business' 79 Maureen Mackintosh 6 The New Management and Governance of Education 97 Stewart Ranson, Jane Martin, Penny McKeown and Jon Nixon 7 The New Management of Community Care: User Groups, Citizenship and Co-Production 112 Marian Barnes, Steve Harrison, Maggie Mort, Polly Shard/ow and Gerald Wistow vii viii Contents 8 Reframing the Delivery of Local Housing Services: Networks and the New Competition 128 Barbara Reid 9 Community Governance of Crime Control 145 John Benyon and Adam Edwards 10 Networks in Post-16 Education and Training 168 Kathryn Riley 11 Networking for Local Economic Development 181 Kevin Morgan, Gareth Rees and Shari Garmise 12 Networking in Europe 197 John Benington and Janet Harvey 13 The Private Financing of Public Infrastructure 222 David Heald and Neal Geaughan 14 Something Old, Something New 237 Jeffrey Stanyer Bibliography 249 Index 269 List of Tables and Figures Tables 3.1 Local self-management: freedom and constraint 57 3.2 Local self-management: some results 58 4.1 Employment change in local government, 1979-94 66 5.1 Two economic discourses 95 9 .I Distinguishing local government and community governance: focus, orientation and technique 146 9.2 Comparing the local (police) government and community governance of crime control: focus, orientation and technique 149 9.3 A portfolio of community safety activities: some examples 152 9.4 Government grant-aid programmes for crime prevention 155 Figures 14.1 Control of hospitals and education 245 14.2 Local functions of trusts 245 IX List of Contributors Marian Barnes Department of Social Policy and Social Work, Uni versity of Birmingham John Benington Professor in the Local Government Centre, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick John Benyon Director of the Centre for the Study of Public Order, University of Leicester Johnston Birchall Department of Government, Brunei University Kevin Doogan School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol Adam Edwards Researcher in Centre for the Study of Public Order, l)niversity of Leicester Shari Garmise Formerly Research Assistant, University of Cardiff Steve Harrison Nuffield Institute for Health Services, University of Leeds Neal Geaughan Department of Accountancy, University of Aberdeen Janet Harvey Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Corporate Strategy and Change, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick David Heald Professor of Accountancy, University of Aberdeen Vivien Lowndes Professor of Public Policy and Management, De Montfort University Maureen Mackintosh Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open Unversity X List of Contributors Xl Jane Martin Researcher in the School of Education, University of Birmingham Penny McKeown School of Education, Queen's University, Belfast Kevin Morgan Department of City and Regional Planning, Univer sity of Wales, Cardiff Maggie Mort Senior Research Fellow in the School of Management, University of Lancaster Jon Nixon Professor of Education, University of Stirling Christopher Pollitt Professor of Government and Co-Director of the Centre for the Evaluation of Public Policy and Practice, Brunei University Keith Putman Formerly Researcher, Brunei University, now working as a full-time teacher Stewart Ranson Professor of Education, University of Birmingham Gareth Rees Professor of Education, University of Cardiff Barbara Reid Reader in Housing Studies, Sheffield Hallam Univer sity Kathryn Riley Professor and Director, Froebel College, Roehampton Institute, London Jeffrey Stanyer Department of Politics, University of Exeter Polly Shardlow Research Fellow in the Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield Gerry Stoker Professor of Government, University of Strathclyde Gerald Wistow Professor in the Nuffield Institute for Health Services, University of Leeds
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