Metropolitan Miasma: Blurred accountabilities in the governance of London

London Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 33-45

  Pimlott, Ben ^a   Rao, Nirmala ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; PUBLIC SERVICE; URBAN POLITICS;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 15944428572     PISSN: 03058034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/ldn.2004.29.2.33     Document Type: Article

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1. This paper reflects in part discussions at a series of seminars organized by London First and attended by the authors, and a further series of discussions with Assembly members and GLA officers. Ben Pimlott was working on the paper from his hospital bed when he died on 10 April 2004. Nirmala Rao completed it, taking account of the results of the Mayoral and Assembly elections of 10 June 2004.
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