Chris Game
Biographic Data
| ID | 4128642 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Game |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Game |
| SIGNATURE | GAME C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Local Government in the United Kingdom
Local Government in the United Kingdom
‘Localism, localism, localism’
Twenty-nine per cent Women Councillors after a Mere 100 Years
Just over 100 years ago, 5 pioneering women and 1 quite exceptional one became the first legitimately elected female members of English county and county borough councils. While obviously important, the Qualification of Women Act 1907 that enabled their election was far from the only one to have influenced women's electoral involvement in local government. Their first real opportunity had come in 1870, when the remarkably female-friendly electora…
Elected Mayors
The Government's policy of encouraging the adoption of directly elected mayors in the cities and major towns of England can hardly be judged, at least in the short term, as anything other than a failure - and particularly a failure of process. The contention of this paper is that there is an additional cost to this failure. The focus on mayors has distracted public - and to some extent local government - attention from many of the other strands o…
Britain’s‘5 Percent’ Local Government Revolution
Tony Blair’s New Labour Party came to power in 1997 committed to ‘modernizing’ and rejuvenating a local government system that it considered had been weakened and emasculated by the Thatcher and Major Conservative governments. Written immediately following Labour’s overwhelming re-election in June 2001, this article is an interim review of some of the key policies in the government’s modernization agenda for local government. The first sections d…
Local Elections in Britain
by Colin Railings and Michael Thrasher (London, Routledge, 1997) xii+232 pp., £45 hbk ISBN 0 415 05953 4
Single transferable media bewilderment
Chris Game reviews the media's unsatisfactory presentation of the New Northern Ireland Assembly STV election results in June 1998
La carotte et le bâton… de dynamite. Le programme travailliste de modernisation du Local Government
Carrots and Semtex. New Labour's Modernisation Agenda for British Local Government The New Labour'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 real…
Unprecedented in Local Government Terms’– The Local Government Commission’s Public Consultation Programme
The purpose of this article is to describe and evaluate the public consultation exercises mounted by the Local Government Commission for England under its successive Chairmen, Sir John Banham and Sir David Cooksey. The Commission was evidently proud of this aspect of its work, emphasizing repeatedly its unprecedented nature: in itself an unremarkable claim in the context of British local government structural reviews. This article suggests that, …
Monopolistic and hung councils
This article records party results at the May 1995 local elections together with a breakdown of council governing arrangements and a hint of worse to come for the Conservative Party in May 1996
Hung councils
English Metropolitan Government Since Abolition
The Local Government Act 1985 abolished the Greater London Council (GLC) and the six English metropolitan county councils (MCCS); but it did not abolish the services for which they were responsible. It transferred them: some directly to the lower‐tier borough or district councils, others to a variety of joint boards, joint committees, residuary bodies, and special purpose agencies. As a result, there are, in at least some of the former MCC areas,…
Public attitudes to metropolitan government
Public attitudes to the abolition of the Mets
Section 137
1985). Section 137: Propaganda on the rates? Local Government Studies: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 11-18
Axeman or taxman
Manifestos and other manifestations of local party politics ‐ the spread of party politics since reorganisation
1983). 3.1 Manifestos and other manifestations of local party politics ‐ the spread of party politics since reorganisation. Local Government Studies: Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 29-33
Social Services and Street Lights Still Top the Polls
1983). Social Services and Street Lights Still Top the Polls. Local Government Studies: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 1-7
The Measurement of Central Control in England and Wales
Budget‐making by opinion poll—must services always suffer
Local elections
On Local Political Leadership
The recent publication of Jones and Norton’s Political Leadership in Local Government is an opportunity to assess the state of local leadership studies in the UK. A critical review of this volume is offered and some possible reasons for the dearth of systematic studies of leadership resources and behaviour discussed. Contrasts are drawn with the work of American scholars in this field and some aspects of the more analytical approach found in the …
Horses for Courses
Whips have always aroused curiosity. Their peculiar title, which suggests coercion and social control, derives from ‘Whipper-in’, a man who keeps headstrong hounds running with the pack. The packs, that is to say the parliamentary parties, are heterogeneous associations of independent and egocentric individuals, not at all the sort to shy away from dissent and rebellion. Between 1966 and 1970 the Labour Government faced backbench opposition on al…
Local Elections in Britain
by Colin Railings and Michael Thrasher (London, Routledge, 1997) xii+232 pp., £45 hbk ISBN 0 415 05953 4
English Metropolitan Government Since Abolition
The Local Government Act 1985 abolished the Greater London Council (GLC) and the six English metropolitan county councils (MCCS); but it did not abolish the services for which they were responsible. It transferred them: some directly to the lower‐tier borough or district councils, others to a variety of joint boards, joint committees, residuary bodies, and special purpose agencies. As a result, there are, in at least some of the former MCC areas,…
Elected Mayors
The Government's policy of encouraging the adoption of directly elected mayors in the cities and major towns of England can hardly be judged, at least in the short term, as anything other than a failure - and particularly a failure of process. The contention of this paper is that there is an additional cost to this failure. The focus on mayors has distracted public - and to some extent local government - attention from many of the other strands o…
Horses for Courses
Whips have always aroused curiosity. Their peculiar title, which suggests coercion and social control, derives from ‘Whipper-in’, a man who keeps headstrong hounds running with the pack. The packs, that is to say the parliamentary parties, are heterogeneous associations of independent and egocentric individuals, not at all the sort to shy away from dissent and rebellion. Between 1966 and 1970 the Labour Government faced backbench opposition on al…
Britain’s‘5 Percent’ Local Government Revolution
Tony Blair’s New Labour Party came to power in 1997 committed to ‘modernizing’ and rejuvenating a local government system that it considered had been weakened and emasculated by the Thatcher and Major Conservative governments. Written immediately following Labour’s overwhelming re-election in June 2001, this article is an interim review of some of the key policies in the government’s modernization agenda for local government. The first sections d…
Unprecedented in Local Government Terms’– The Local Government Commission’s Public Consultation Programme
The purpose of this article is to describe and evaluate the public consultation exercises mounted by the Local Government Commission for England under its successive Chairmen, Sir John Banham and Sir David Cooksey. The Commission was evidently proud of this aspect of its work, emphasizing repeatedly its unprecedented nature: in itself an unremarkable claim in the context of British local government structural reviews. This article suggests that, …
Public attitudes to the abolition of the Mets
Axeman or taxman
The Measurement of Central Control in England and Wales
Budget‐making by opinion poll—must services always suffer
Manifestos and other manifestations of local party politics ‐ the spread of party politics since reorganisation
1983). 3.1 Manifestos and other manifestations of local party politics ‐ the spread of party politics since reorganisation. Local Government Studies: Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 29-33
On Local Political Leadership
The recent publication of Jones and Norton’s Political Leadership in Local Government is an opportunity to assess the state of local leadership studies in the UK. A critical review of this volume is offered and some possible reasons for the dearth of systematic studies of leadership resources and behaviour discussed. Contrasts are drawn with the work of American scholars in this field and some aspects of the more analytical approach found in the …
Hung councils
Section 137
1985). Section 137: Propaganda on the rates? Local Government Studies: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 11-18
Social Services and Street Lights Still Top the Polls
1983). Social Services and Street Lights Still Top the Polls. Local Government Studies: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 1-7
Local elections
Horses for Courses
Whips have always aroused curiosity. Their peculiar title, which suggests coercion and social control, derives from ‘Whipper-in’, a man who keeps headstrong hounds running with the pack. The packs, that is to say the parliamentary parties, are heterogeneous associations of independent and egocentric individuals, not at all the sort to shy away from dissent and rebellion. Between 1966 and 1970 the Labour Government faced backbench opposition on al…
On Local Political Leadership
The recent publication of Jones and Norton’s Political Leadership in Local Government is an opportunity to assess the state of local leadership studies in the UK. A critical review of this volume is offered and some possible reasons for the dearth of systematic studies of leadership resources and behaviour discussed. Contrasts are drawn with the work of American scholars in this field and some aspects of the more analytical approach found in the …
Local elections
The Measurement of Central Control in England and Wales
Budget‐making by opinion poll—must services always suffer
Manifestos and other manifestations of local party politics ‐ the spread of party politics since reorganisation
1983). 3.1 Manifestos and other manifestations of local party politics ‐ the spread of party politics since reorganisation. Local Government Studies: Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 29-33
Social Services and Street Lights Still Top the Polls
1983). Social Services and Street Lights Still Top the Polls. Local Government Studies: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 1-7
Axeman or taxman
Section 137
1985). Section 137: Propaganda on the rates? Local Government Studies: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 11-18
Public attitudes to the abolition of the Mets
Public attitudes to metropolitan government
English Metropolitan Government Since Abolition
The Local Government Act 1985 abolished the Greater London Council (GLC) and the six English metropolitan county councils (MCCS); but it did not abolish the services for which they were responsible. It transferred them: some directly to the lower‐tier borough or district councils, others to a variety of joint boards, joint committees, residuary bodies, and special purpose agencies. As a result, there are, in at least some of the former MCC areas,…
Hung councils
Monopolistic and hung councils
This article records party results at the May 1995 local elections together with a breakdown of council governing arrangements and a hint of worse to come for the Conservative Party in May 1996
Unprecedented in Local Government Terms’– The Local Government Commission’s Public Consultation Programme
The purpose of this article is to describe and evaluate the public consultation exercises mounted by the Local Government Commission for England under its successive Chairmen, Sir John Banham and Sir David Cooksey. The Commission was evidently proud of this aspect of its work, emphasizing repeatedly its unprecedented nature: in itself an unremarkable claim in the context of British local government structural reviews. This article suggests that, …
La carotte et le bâton… de dynamite. Le programme travailliste de modernisation du Local Government
Carrots and Semtex. New Labour's Modernisation Agenda for British Local Government The New Labour'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 real…
Local Elections in Britain
by Colin Railings and Michael Thrasher (London, Routledge, 1997) xii+232 pp., £45 hbk ISBN 0 415 05953 4
Single transferable media bewilderment
Chris Game reviews the media's unsatisfactory presentation of the New Northern Ireland Assembly STV election results in June 1998
Britain’s‘5 Percent’ Local Government Revolution
Tony Blair’s New Labour Party came to power in 1997 committed to ‘modernizing’ and rejuvenating a local government system that it considered had been weakened and emasculated by the Thatcher and Major Conservative governments. Written immediately following Labour’s overwhelming re-election in June 2001, this article is an interim review of some of the key policies in the government’s modernization agenda for local government. The first sections d…
Elected Mayors
The Government's policy of encouraging the adoption of directly elected mayors in the cities and major towns of England can hardly be judged, at least in the short term, as anything other than a failure - and particularly a failure of process. The contention of this paper is that there is an additional cost to this failure. The focus on mayors has distracted public - and to some extent local government - attention from many of the other strands o…
Twenty-nine per cent Women Councillors after a Mere 100 Years
Just over 100 years ago, 5 pioneering women and 1 quite exceptional one became the first legitimately elected female members of English county and county borough councils. While obviously important, the Qualification of Women Act 1907 that enabled their election was far from the only one to have influenced women's electoral involvement in local government. Their first real opportunity had come in 1870, when the remarkably female-friendly electora…
Local Government in the United Kingdom
Local Government in the United Kingdom
‘Localism, localism, localism’
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