Understanding the management of local government - John Stewart

Understanding the Management of Local Government will enable you to gain a better understanding of those purposes, conditions and tasks involved in effective management. It will help you to:

• support value choice and the political processes which lie at the heart of local government
• fulfil the needs of public accountability
• rise to the challenge of developing organisations and management to provide community leadership

This key text is from the Managing Local Government Series which is published in association with the Institute of Local Government Studies (INLOGOV) at the School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham.