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	Where is our new localism? \| Society Guardian \| SocietyGuardian.co.uk
		Addressing a Local Government Association (LGA) fringe meeting at Labour's conference, the home secretary and former Sheffield city council leader noted that the pendulum has swung against his party "on the back of having been in power at Westminster for six and a half years".
		The deputy prime minister, John Prescott, and Nick Raynsford, his local government and the regions minister, promised to give more freedoms to the 76 councils rated "excellent" and "good" in last year's comprehensive performance assessment, only to threaten to cap council budgets in the face of criticism over this year's average 12.9% council tax increase.
		Local government, in short, is abysmal at promoting and selling itself as a collective provider, informing the public about its activities, let alone engaging with them.
	society.guardian.co.uk /societyguardian/story/0,7843,1057691,00.html (772 words)

	Conservative Party - Article
		Labour's positioning through its rhetorical embrace of new localism is to be contrasted with their failure to act substantially within the spirit and aims of new localism.
		While the Liberal Democrats approach to new localism is to become the high income tax party as they seem to apparently believe that higher income taxes are the best way of solving the decline in voter participation.
		We all must ensure that localism whether new, old or as community government, and therefore as a meaning is not stolen by the newspeak police of new Labour.
	www.conservatives.com /tile.do?def=news.show.article.page&obj_id=51174 (628 words)

	Reason Magazine - Conservation, Not Commerce, Keys Revival Of Environmental Localism
		California’s coastline politics is a microcosm of the waxing of this new localism.
		Local (and state) officials say environmental protection is at stake in the sanctuary management plan debate.
		Local decision-making is critical to maintaining environmental protection and community well-being.
	www.reason.com /news/show/32630.html (1062 words)

	NALC
		It is vital that this debate is based not on protecting institutions, but rather on looking at the best way of delivering local services in a coherent, holistic and democratic manner.
		It is equally vital that local government works much more in partnership with local community and voluntary organisations.
		This partnership needs to focus on the devolution of decision-making down to the most local level possible.
	www.nalc.gov.uk /news/archive/2004/2004newlocalism.htm (114 words)

	New Rules Project - About Us - Why New Rules?
		These are the principles of "new localism." They call upon us to begin viewing our communities and our regions not only as places of residence, recreation and retail but as places that nurture active and informed citizens with the skills and productive capacity to generate real wealth and the authority to govern their own lives.
		Localism is an approach that allows us to sort out which roles are appropriate for which levels of government.
		And without localism, we are guaranteed the opposite: rootless corporations with no allegiance to place, other than to the place with the lowest wages and least environmental restrictions; long lines of transportation, which are inherently polluting; and out-of-scale development that wrecks neighborhoods and destroys habitat.
	www.newrules.org /misc/whynewrules.htm (1379 words)

	Literature, Localism and Love
		With devastating wit, the author attempts to nip in the bud a new tendency in literary criticism which consists in promoting the practice of interpretation as a purely disinterested, unpolitical, act of love.
		Echoing the views currently held by a number of other distinguished critics, Fish argues here in favor of what may be called a new localism: a return to the practice of literary criticism in and for itself, i.e., divested of the political concerns associated with, for exemple, cultural studies.
		When the new localism does this retrospection while at the same time withdrawing from any more recent theoretical and political cathexes, the effect is like a cold shower.
	www.pum.umontreal.ca /revues/surfaces/vol4/robbins.html (2983 words)

	www.publicfinance.co.uk - Features - False steps to localism, by Tony Travers
		New Labour, despite its differences from previous governments of the Left, believed public service providers should be required to create a better, more equal, society.
		New localism (often aggrandised to New Localism) refers to a barely articulated sense that people in small geographical areas – usually as small as neighbourhoods, housing estates, wards or even streets – have wise, though untapped, views about the delivery of public services.
		More recently, the move towards greater use of housing associations (during the 1974–1979 Labour government) and local management for schools (under 1989 Conservative legislation) proved to be longer-leading indicators of new localism.
	www.cipfa.org.uk /publicfinance/features_details.cfm?News_id=22399 (2028 words)

	the New Pantagruel: Hymns in the Whorehouse
		Localism as embodied in the civic association, town, family, and religious fraternity exist logically and historically prior to the state.
		Pejoratively labeled “isolationists,” their real concern was the preservation of local life, for looming behind war was the centralizing state.
		This is Localism by Allan Carlson in Issue 2.3 of The New Pantagruel.
	www.newpantagruel.com /issues/2.3/localism.php (634 words)

	Society \| New new localism
		In a new pamphlet, New Localism in Action, Warren Hatter, of the New Local Government Network, says: "In transport and housing for sustainable communities, the centre of gravity is moving towards the strategic, regional tier.
		In education, the move is towards more autonomy for schools and less financial clout with local education authorities - either a very localising move or (as is the consensus interpretation in local government) an über-centralist approach.
		New Localism in Action, is published by the New Local Government Network (£25, plus £1.25 p&p).
	society.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5137946-115799,00.html (658 words)

	Local Government, New Localism and the Delivery of Regeneration. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A hypothesis exists that the continued emasculation of local government, both administratively and fiscally, over the past 50 years, by Conservative and Labour governments alike has lead to a diminution in the effectiveness of local authorities to deliver regeneration schemes in a timely and cost- effective manner.
		‘New Localism ’, albeit imperfectly defined, is the umbrella term given to the movement calling for the decentralisation of power from Westminster to local areas.
		However, there appears to be a relative scarcity of thought directly linking local government and new localism to the delivery of regeneration.
	www.bura.org.uk /events/x127lgnl/intro.htm (342 words)

	'Local government, new localism and the delivery of regeneration' - Communities and Local Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The pooling and aligning of funding from central government allows local authorities and their partners to tackle local priorities and resolve local issues.
		It is a new partnership that will give all towns and cities the opportunity to realise their potential.
		The good news is that the gaps are narrowing and we are seeing the urban renaissance BURA championed fifteen years ago.
	www.communities.gov.uk /index.asp?id=1164301 (1770 words)

	www.publicfinance.co.uk - Opinion - New localism, old purse strings, by Peter Wilby
		On the broader scale, its batteries of targets and its `local public service agreements' appear to echo the Thatcherite view that public servants in general and local councils in particular are not to be trusted.
		In a speech titled `The new localism' in June, he gave as examples of how ministers have fearlessly relinquished power, the devolution of decision-making to government-appointed quangos such as the Office of Fair Trading and the Competition Commission.
		Yet at the instant Blair embraces the new localism, he also allows that inequality is not such a good thing after all and that reducing it will now be another new Labour goal.
	www.cipfa.org.uk /publicfinance/opinion_details.cfm?News_id=14456 (818 words)

	XI World Congress Program Symposia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Studies on local systems, on one side, and on food supply chains, on the other, seem to point to different possibilities of competitiveness for small, traditional firms/farms.
		Local development is conceived as a way to let emerge local resources that are there, in the territory, but are latent, little known, ill utilised.
		Nevertheless, in the political sociology literature, studies of the local, such as Gaventa's study of Appalachia in Power and Powerlessness, are often classic studies of inequality and hegemonic domination.
	www.irsa-world.org /XI/program/symposium6.html (1295 words)

	Localism and its neoliberal application: A case study of West Gate New Deal for Communities in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Paradoxically, much of the contemporary political appeal to the 'local' actually rests upon arguments regarding allegedly uncontrollable supralocal transformations, such as globalization, the financialization of capital, the erosion of the national state, and the intensification of interspatial competition.
		Under these conditions, in the absence of a sustainable regulatory fix at global, supranational, or national scales, localities are increasingly being viewed as the only remaining institutional arenas in which a negotiated form of capitalist regulation might be forged.
		In short, the new localism has become a forceful call to arms through which local (and in some cases, national) political -economic elites are aggressively attempting to promote economic rejuvenation from below.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3780/is_200407/ai_n9419187 (1116 words)

	TBS: Localism in the Era of Globalization
		As we come to the end of the 20th century and look forward to a new century and a new millennium, it is exciting to think of the opportunities facing those in media or media-related industries.
		News and public affairs focus on those topics that are important or of interest to the media outlet's constituent public, whether it is the death of a world leader, concern over a gasoline spill in a local creek that could make individuals living in a neighborhood of the community ill, or the local political elections.
		Journalists will have to develop ways of providing traditional local news to their traditional constituents, while at the same time providing the news and information that is important to their "new" audiences.
	www.tbsjournal.com /Archives/Spring99/Articles/aycock/aycock.html (2675 words)

	Liberal Democrats : Kennedy: Localism is about Crafting a New Contract between the Public and Politicians
		We want local authorities to be real commissioners – procuring education from diverse providers but with the financial clout to decide what they want to commission.
		New providers have been offered favourable prices to undertake NHS work, and are paid more than their so-called ‘competitors’ in the NHS.
		Local NHSs could still work together where it made sense – delivering specialist services, or to cut procurement costs – but they would be accountable directly to local people, not upwards to the secretary of state.
	www.libdems.org.uk /community/kennedy-localism-is-about-crafting-a-new-contract-between-the-public-and-politicians.html (2749 words)

	bowblog: The New Localism
		I want to be even-handed – most Governments talk the 'power to the people' talk while in opposition but then find the glamour of undiluted power difficult to give up once in the hot seat – and not always for sinister reasons.
		If Milburn is on the money, if his 'new localism' is going to have Labour's official endorsement for the third term manifesto, I think this is the kind of issue that could excite jaded supporters and catch the imagination of ordinary voters and might give the next Labour Government the boost it needs.
		Posted by Mike Butcher at April 22, 2004 04:40 PM One of the problems for localism is that the local decision-making is controlled centrally, with a large amount of the cash coming from the central.
	www.bowblog.com /archives/000684.html (524 words)

	e-Government: e-Democracy important for councils in delivering New Localism agenda
		Articles / Local Government Date: Feb 10, 2005 - 06:45 AM Home Office minister Hazel Blears has this week called on local councils to be given a pivotal role in the delivery of the New Localism agenda, but warned that in doing so they must embrace new forms of democracy at community and neighbourhood level.
		The basic premise that new forms of local ownership and control should be introduced to local services and activities goes to the heart of what progressive governments should be all about.
		Addressing how New Localist thinking is impacting upon front-line delivery of public services, New Localism in Action features a range of essays from key practitioners and thinkers working in transport, education, the tackling of anti-social behaviour and housing for sustainable communities.
	www.publictechnology.net /print.php?sid=2426 (734 words)

	The Future of Corporate Reform
		In the case of locally owned business, those decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who are going to feel the impacts, whether it is a polluted water source or social distress.
		If you shop at a local store or support a local farmer, those dollars in turn tend to be spent with other locally owned businesses, and so they help support a network of community-based enterprises.
		England has a new policy in place that requires new retail development go into areas in and around the downtown; development is allowed on the outskirts of town only when a legitimate need can be demonstrated.
	www.multinationalmonitor.org /mm2002/02oct-nov/oct-nov02interviewmitchell.html (3210 words)

	Globalisation and the new localism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The new localism fits into the spaces which are created by this situation.
		Local people have to understand the global forces which affect them.
		Globalisation is another name for 'colonialism' and 'capitalist imperialism' and is not therefore anything new although it now reaches farther and things happen faster.
	www.srds.co.uk /mdg/globalisation.htm (600 words)

	Edward Davey MP - Shadow Secretary for the Office of Deputy Prime Minister
		That seems to be New Labour’s approach to local government and “new localism”.
		Given the Government’s “new localism” lacks any real philosophy or clear policy framework, discussing it has to start with an attempt to agree terms.
		Augment that by fair voting systems in local elections to replace inefficient political monopolies with more party competition and the incentives for dynamic reform are really set loose.
	www.cix.co.uk /~ldsk/natnews6.htm (642 words)

	Localism
		The case for localism over uniformity is about shaping services more effectively to tackle health inequalities in our society every bit as much as it is about shaping them to be responsive to the concerns of the individual.
		Transferring ownership from the central state to local communities - giving local people a stake and a vote in the public services they use - is the best way of moving localism beyond a gift conferred by Whitehall - which can be taken away by Whitehall - into a permanent feature of our democratic landscape.
		In other countries with a stronger democratic input into local services, for example, local communities are able, through referenda or through local elections to agree to raise local funds to invest in the public service infrastructure.
	www.sochealth.co.uk /news/localism.htm (4755 words)

	The Emergency Alert System and the New Localism
		But given the present new era of de-regulatory broadcasting, some suggest that commercial radio has lost its edge as a part of a viable public emergency alert network.
		Through interviews with representatives of the EPA, NOAA, state and local emergency managers as well as with radio station engineers, an analysis is constructed around the use of the EAS during these emergencies.
		Finally, recommendations are provided that consider the role of commercial radio as a viable emergency messaging system in the context of homeland security and the ideals of localism.
	www.eou.edu /~mmustoe/easpapera.html (388 words)

	::Issues of the day:: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The role of federal government versus state and local government was the subject of a debate in America in the early 90s during which the term ‘new localism’ emerged.
		It should mean an approach that recognises the changes underway in local authorities, driven by our ambitious improvement agenda and our commitment to involving local communities and freeing up our own front line.
		The politics of localism, of what matters to people in their communities, is much more likely to engage them than the out-of-date theatre of Prime Minister’s Question Time, knockabouts on the ‘Today’ radio programme, or bloodletting on ‘Newsnight’.
	www.labour.org.uk /councillors/newsite/index.php?id=651 (637 words)

	IngentaConnect Local Autonomy, Local Democracy and the `New Localism' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Most studies of local autonomy and local democracy fail to distinguish adequately between the two terms.
		When used to analyse the recent emergence of the ‘new localism’ as a policy approach within Britain, this separation also shows significant limitations in current policies towards democratic renewal and central policies that are supposedly focused on outcomes rather than processes.
		Although localities are being afforded some autonomy, most initiatives are not supporting the enhancement of local democracy.
	www.ingentaconnect.com /content/bpl/post/2004/00000052/00000002/art00010 (227 words)

	New Economics News Page
		New research reveals that on Sunday 16 April the UK in effect stops relying on its own natural resources to support itself and starts to ‘live off’ the rest of the world.
		The cost of new nuclear power has been underestimated by almost a factor of three and the potential of small scale renewables critically overlooked according to a new report from nef, released to coincide with the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy.
		Local authorities could increase the amount of money circulating in their area by 400 per cent by examining how they spend their money, and fostering links with local suppliers.
	www.neweconomics.org /gen/m6_i1_NewsHomepage.aspx (2929 words)

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