GAME, Chris <br/><br/>
La carotte et le bâton...de dynamite - le programme travailliste de modernisation du Local Government 

 - Paris :  IIAP,  oct./déc. 1998 
<br/><br/> 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