Making local governance work : networks, relationships, and the management of change /

"This book provides a balance-sheet of what changes in organisational forms, roles, relationships and approaches actually seem to make the new local governance work effectively. It stresses the importance of new approaches to organisational and network learning but also of unlearning old habits...

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Main Author: Goss, Sue
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.
Series:Government beyond the centre
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction - Making Local Governance Work
  • 2. Issues in Local Governance
  • 3. Local Governance and Communities
  • 4. The Relationship Organisation
  • 5. Networks and Partnerships
  • 6. Politics and Politicians
  • 7. Why is Change so Hard?
  • 8. Learning and Unlearning in Public Organisations
  • 9. Learning and Unlearning in Civil Society
  • 10. Conclusion.