Download or read book Making Local Governance Work written by Sue Goss and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New forms of local governance require new ways of working, and in this important new book, Sue Goss assesses the nature of the challenge and how individuals and organizations have responded. Drawing on a wide range of political and management theory and research and her own extensive experience, she provides the clearest picture yet of the emergence of new "relationship organizations" and of their engagement with the new roles of citizens, public managers, and local politicians.