Devolution and Local Government
Devolution and Local Government
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权力下放和地方政府
DOI：
10.1093/publius/pjj009
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
C. Jeffery
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作者：
C. Jeffery
权力下放是在民主复兴的花言巧语中引入的，并承诺地方政府的积极参与。英国不同地区的地方政府采取了不同的应对方式。在苏格兰和威尔士，地方当局在1997年之前就开始倡导权力下放，以实现与权力下放政府的密切伙伴关系。在伦敦，地方当局也开始与地方政府密切合作。在英格兰其他地区，地方当局对地方政府的可能性充其量是矛盾的，他们更愿意在全国范围内与英国政府机构合作。北爱尔兰地方政府是狭隘的，似乎对与权力下放的政府接触持怀疑态度。这些差异表达了联合王国各组成社会与联合王国之间更广泛的关系，并有助于在英格兰嵌入持续的中央集权政府。
Devolution was introduced amid a rhetoric of democratic renewal and promised the active engagement of local government. Local government has responded in different ways in different parts of the United Kingdom. In Scotland and Wales local authorities have built on their advocacy of devolution before 1997 to realize a close partnership with devolved government. In London, too, local authorities have come to engage closely with regional government. In the rest of England local authorities were at best ambivalent about the possibility of regional government, preferring to work in a national context with UK government institutions. Northern Ireland local government is parochial and appears suspicious of engagement with devolved government. These differences express some of the wider relationships of the component societies of the United Kingdom to the UK state and have helped to embed continued centralized government in England.