Regulating local authorities: emerging patterns of central control
Central and local relations since the Layfield report / George Jones and John Stewart -- Intergovernmental relations in Scotland post-devolution / Neil Mcgarvey -- Central grants and local spending in Britain / Arthur Midwinter and Paul Carmichael -- Guided democracy or Multi-level governance? new trends in regulatory regimes in central and local relations in the Nordic countries / Harald Baldersheim and Krister Ståhlberg -- Central control over local government and Western European comparison / Mike Goldsmith -- Central and local financial relations in South Africa / Robert Cameron -- Between rhetoric and reality : does the 2001 White paper reverse the centralising trend in Britain? / Vivien Lowndes.