Understanding complexity: The ever-shifting world of local governance in Britain

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Acknowledgement

Thanks to Guy Lodge and Lorena Esposito for their input and comments. However, the views reflected here are exclusively mine.

Notes

¹This phrase was coined by Christopher Hill (1993) to refer to the European Union – but it seems equally applicable to sub-national tiers of governance, where actors and institutions also lack the power to carry out tasks expected of them by the public at large.