Subject(s): Local government in Great Britain -- Governance and politics -- Health and Social care -- Political parties -- New governance of communities -- Sovereign council , functional sovereignty, political sovereignty -- Reconceptualizaing the governance -- Local communities -- Strengthening political leadership -- Tradition of invisible leadership -- Party politics -- Local governance -- Cabinet government and potential for organizational change -- Typology of leadership and scrutiny styles -- Non-executive councillors -- Dominance of the committee system 1930-79 -- Legacy left by Thatcher 1979-97 -- Development of executive models of political management -- Political parties at the local level -- Development -- Changing national party views on the role of local politics -- Local political traditions -- Local bureaucrat -- Dynamic dependency -- Development in service provision and finance -- Education, governing health and social care, planning and housing, local government finance -- Pluralization of service providers -- Local taxation and grant -- Over centralization -- Social democratic country -- Regionalism and the challenge for local authorities -- Institutional development -- Community governance and local government -- Local governance in healthcare -- NHS -- Institutions, politics and people: making local politics work -- Local government transformed -- Institutional metrix of local governance -- Institutional lock-in -- Localism