Policy Payoffs in Local Government

British Journal of Political Science

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 333-353

  Laver, Michael ^a   Rallings, Colin ^a   Thrasher, Michael ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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EID: 0346072451     PISSN: 00071234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007123498000180     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, 'The 1995 Local Elections', Politics Review, 5 (1995), 25-7.
2. Some early thoughts on these matters can be found in Michael Laver, Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, 'Coalition Theory and Local Government Coalition Payoffs in Britain', British Journal of Political Science, 17 (1987), 501-9; Michael Laver, 'Theories of Coalition Formation and Local Government Coalitions', in Colin Mellors and Bert Pijnenberg, eds, Political Parties and Coalitions in European Local Government (London: Routledge, 1989), pp. 15-33; S. Leach and C. Game, Co-operation and Conflict: Politics in the Hung Counties (London: Common Voice Research Paper No. 1, 1989); and Michael Temple, 'Devon County Council: A Case Study of a Hung Council', Public Administration, 71 (1993), 507-33.
3. Some early thoughts on these matters can be found in Michael Laver, Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, 'Coalition Theory and Local Government Coalition Payoffs in Britain', British Journal of Political Science, 17 (1987), 501-9; Michael Laver, 'Theories of Coalition Formation and Local Government Coalitions', in Colin Mellors and Bert Pijnenberg, eds, Political Parties and Coalitions in European Local Government (London: Routledge, 1989), pp. 15-33; S. Leach and C. Game, Co-operation and Conflict: Politics in the Hung Counties (London: Common Voice Research Paper No. 1, 1989); and Michael Temple, 'Devon County Council: A Case Study of a Hung Council', Public Administration, 71 (1993), 507-33.
4. Some early thoughts on these matters can be found in Michael Laver, Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, 'Coalition Theory and Local Government Coalition Payoffs in Britain', British Journal of Political Science, 17 (1987), 501-9; Michael Laver, 'Theories of Coalition Formation and Local Government Coalitions', in Colin Mellors and Bert Pijnenberg, eds, Political Parties and Coalitions in European Local Government (London: Routledge, 1989), pp. 15-33; S. Leach and C. Game, Co-operation and Conflict: Politics in the Hung Counties (London: Common Voice Research Paper No. 1, 1989); and Michael Temple, 'Devon County Council: A Case Study of a Hung Council', Public Administration, 71 (1993), 507-33.
5. Some early thoughts on these matters can be found in Michael Laver, Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, 'Coalition Theory and Local Government Coalition Payoffs in Britain', British Journal of Political Science, 17 (1987), 501-9; Michael Laver, 'Theories of Coalition Formation and Local Government Coalitions', in Colin Mellors and Bert Pijnenberg, eds, Political Parties and Coalitions in European Local Government (London: Routledge, 1989), pp. 15-33; S. Leach and C. Game, Co-operation and Conflict: Politics in the Hung Counties (London: Common Voice Research Paper No. 1, 1989); and Michael Temple, 'Devon County Council: A Case Study of a Hung Council', Public Administration, 71 (1993), 507-33.
6. See Michael Laver and Norman Schofield, Multiparty Government (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990) for a review of the motivational assumptions driving various theories of national government formation.
7. Laver et al. 'Coalition Theory and Local Government Coalition Payoffs in Britain', p. 509.
8. Laver et al. 'Coalition Theory and Local Government Coalition Payoffs in Britain', pp. 505-6.
9. Rallings and Thrasher, 'The 1995 Local Elections'.
10. Gregory, 'Local Elections and the Rule of Anticipated Reactions', Political Studies, 17 (1969), 31-47; Kenneth Newton, 'The Impact of Rates on Local Elections', in Local Government Finance: Report of the Committee of Inquiry (London : HMSO, Cmnd 6453, 1976), Appendix 6; Steve Bristow, 'Rates and Votes : The 1980 District Council Elections', Policy and Politics, 10 (1982), 163-80.
11. Gregory, 'Local Elections and the Rule of Anticipated Reactions', Political Studies, 17 (1969), 31-47; Kenneth Newton, 'The Impact of Rates on Local Elections', in Local Government Finance: Report of the Committee of Inquiry (London : HMSO, Cmnd 6453, 1976), Appendix 6; Steve Bristow, 'Rates and Votes : The 1980 District Council Elections', Policy and Politics, 10 (1982), 163-80.
12. Gregory, 'Local Elections and the Rule of Anticipated Reactions', Political Studies, 17 (1969), 31-47; Kenneth Newton, 'The Impact of Rates on Local Elections', in Local Government Finance: Report of the Committee of Inquiry (London : HMSO, Cmnd 6453, 1976), Appendix 6; Steve Bristow, 'Rates and Votes : The 1980 District Council Elections', Policy and Politics, 10 (1982), 163-80.
13. The portfolio allocation model is extensively described in Michael Laver and Kenneth A. Shepsle, Making and Breaking Governments (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
14. Leach and Game, Co-operation and Conflict.
15. Colin Mellors, 'Non-Majority British Councils', in Mellors and Pijnenburg, eds, Political Parties and Coalition in European Local Government, pp. 68-112.
16. Andrew Blowers, 'The Politics of Uncertainty: The Consequences of Minority Rule in an English County', Local Government Studies, 13, No. 5 (1987), 31-50.
17. Temple, 'Devon County Council : A Case Study of a Hung Council'.
18. Calum Macdonald and Jake Arnold-Forster, Working Together: Joint Administration in Local Government (Reading: Labour Initiative on Cooperation, 1995), p. 3.
19. Jim Sharpe and Kenneth Newton, Does Politics Matter? (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984).
20. Tony Byrne, Local Government in Britain, 6th edn (Harmondsworth, Middx.: Penguin, 1994).
21. Gerry Stoker, The Politics of Local Government, 2nd edn (London: Macmillan, 1991), p. 94.
22. Basil Jeuda, 'Managing a Hung Authority', Local Government Policy-making, 9 (1982), 7-15.