Product Description: This book examines the implications for public law of the regulation of privatized utilities, asking how these institutions fit into our constitutional understanding regarding accountability, individual rights and territorial government...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Recent years have seen a central assault on the powers of local government, combined with an increasing concentration of decision-making within Whitehall. At the same time, a process of deindustrialization has left many older cities in a state of serious decline, both economically and socially...read more

Product Description: Privatization and the search for economy and efficiency were central themes of government in the 1980s. The 1990s are becoming the decade of public services. "Contract" is a key aspect of the debate about how public services should be provided and who should provide them...read more