Strange Demise of the Local in Local Government

Steve Leach is Emeritus Professor of Local Government at De Montfort University, England. Colin Copus is Emeritus Professor of Local Politics at De Montfort University, England and a Visiting Professor at the University of Ghent, Belgium.

• Chapter 1: Setting the Scene.- Chapter 2: The Way Things Used to Be.- Chapter 3: Reorganisation, Reorganisation, Reorganisation: The Changing Map of Local Government.- Chapter 4: Explaining the Persistence of the Unitary Principle in the Department’s Mindset.- Chapter 5: A Strange Affair: Local Government Reorganisation in Northamptonshire 2018-21—A Case Study.- Chapter 6: Doomsday Approaches and then Recedes.- Chapter 7: What is the Problem About Two-Tier Local Government?.- Chapter 8: Why Bigger is Not Better.- Chapter 9: Where Do We Go from Here?.