La carotte et le bâton...de dynamite - le programme travailliste de modernisation du Local Government
By: GAME, Chris
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ArticlePublisher: Paris : IIAP, oct./déc. 1998Revue Française D'Administration Publique 88, p. 529-546Abstract: The New Labour1's modernisation agenda resembles a politics of semtex and carrots. The resources offered by the state are done so in a conditional manner: local authorities must, under threat of sanction, show themselves willing to undertake modernisation in the way prescribed by the government. The invitation to enter into dialogue is a purely formal one: in really it is a question of choice between modernising or disappearing altogether. As for the recompense for those local councils which submit, it consists of a much awaited reform of local finances, teh content of which remains ill defined however
The New Labour1's modernisation agenda resembles a politics of semtex and carrots. The resources offered by the state are done so in a conditional manner: local authorities must, under threat of sanction, show themselves willing to undertake modernisation in the way prescribed by the government. The invitation to enter into dialogue is a purely formal one: in really it is a question of choice between modernising or disappearing altogether. As for the recompense for those local councils which submit, it consists of a much awaited reform of local finances, teh content of which remains ill defined however
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