Law, Politics, and Local Democracy
ISBN13: 9780198256984ISBN10: 0198256981
Hardback,
408 pages
Jan 2001,
In Stock
Price:
$200.00 (06)Description
Leigh considers the competing and legally interlocking claims of local representative democracy, financial accountability and consumerism, and their implications for the governing structures of local authorities and for local electors, councillors, taxpayers, the users of local services, and council employees.Features
- Designed to bridge the legal and political science writing about local government
- Clearly written with good analysis and thought-provoking comments
About the Author(s)
Ian Leigh is Professor of Law at the University of Durham. Before returning to academic life he practiced as a solicitor with a large district council. He is co-author (with Professor Laurence Lustgarten) of In the Cold: National Security and Parliamentary Democracy (Clarendon Press, 1994) and has written extensively on public law and human rights.
