Regime Politics in London Local Government
- 1 March 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Urban Affairs Review
- Vol. 34 (4) , 515-545
- https://doi.org/10.1177/10780879922184068
Abstract
The authors provide an encompassing eight-point characterization of regimes designed to cover all cases of this complex multicriteria concept, arguing that not all eight characteristics need be present for a regime to exist but that the larger the subset, the more a governing coalition constitutes a regime. The regime concept is then applied to six London boroughs during the early to mid-1990s. They demonstrate the utility and limits of the regime concept in identifying and explaining the politics of these boroughs at this time, suggesting that three of the cases constitute different types of regimes, and the other three constitute failed regimes.Keywords
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