The books does what it says on the cover: defends councillors and the institution of local representative democracy to which they are elected the council from the often ill-informed, ill-judged and in
This book, now available in paperback, is the result of national research conducted amongst England's directly elected mayors and the councillors that serve alongside them. It is the first such major
The book explores the claim that English local government exists in one of the most centralised relationships with national government. Such a position fundamentally undermines any notion of local sel
