Sentences with phrase «local democracy»

But we can't interfere in local democracy in our party.

Watch out public health advocates - as soda taxes are bubbling up in cities across the nation - the beverage industry is working to choke off this expression of local democracy.

The news today that 4 out of 10 councils are turning down a government hand out in favour of putting up council tax is good news for local democracy.

This requires a new approach to public service reform based on local democracy and integrated local delivery in actual communities of place.

Local democracy relies on the voluntary efforts of a handful of individuals, even in relatively affluent areas.

Public financing of elections, as a state and local democracy reform, can help enhance the political voice and power of working - class people and people of color.

Why do we need local democracy to be influential in the way our schools are supervised, goes the question, when local elections often don't change anything?

He is quite right that we need to draw a wider range of people into public life, not just at the parliamentary level but also in local democracy.

But it is a limited concept of local democracy.

Bone argued the saying of prayers was bad for local democracy.

The Green Party of New York regards grassroots democracy as a bedrock principle, and as such we must call for home rule in this instance and denounce the abrogation of local democracy by state government,» said Green Party co-chair and Brooklyn native Gloria Mattera.

But the mayor said it would «stimulate local democracy» and giving more powers over spending to elected councillors «would electrify politics and it was high time we did it».

«These proposals are a welcome step forward in revitalising local democracy and ensuring that we have engaged citizens and accountable local government.

It is right that we should now move and have directly elected police commissioners to rebalance the policing landscape and restore local democracy.»

Ultimately, council elections will cast judgement on whether modest council tax hikes in the name of local autonomy and better services are preferred over ever - diminishing central government hand outs, but the gloves are now off as local democracy fights back.

The extent that the «Northern Powerhouse» and city deals initiatives will energise local democracy is open to debate, particularly as many of these reforms have been introduced without citizens being consulted.

«Electing MMDCEs to improve local democracy and good governance» was the theme chosen for the workshop.

Deal were done of course and accommodations were made, that's life, but at all times there was a flourishing local democracy which has all but disappeared in Tower Hamlets and is doing the same elsewhere.

Stout invites us into a vigorous local democracy in which kids play soccer and a diverse and dedicated group of neighbors team up to protect their community from the encroachment of a large, bureaucratic medical center.

In it, he calls for everything from taxing fatty snacks like cigarettes and breaking the long hours culture, to the need for beefed up local democracy, so we can collectively design healthier local environments.

The free schools programme, despite suggestions that it would fuel social divisions and undermine local democracy, now has the tacit support of the Labour Party.

But those against say that the creation of elected mayors actually reduces local democracy with most elected representatives having little or no power.

11) How would you invigorate local democracy?

The next step should be to devolve decisions about how local democracy is organised to the cities, regions and local authorities, to help reinvigorate participation and renew local politics, writes Mat Lawrence.

The Government argues its proposals for devolution to combined local authorities and DEEMs extends local democracy.

Whitehall's control over local government has denied local choice, eroded local democracy and wasted public money, a new report warns today.

«The last thing New York needs is a mandate from Albany that would circumvent local democracy via a county - determined, all - or - nothing referendum.»

The workshop sought to among others to build consensus on how to deepen local democracy and good governance with the election of MMDCEs on partisan basis.

Instead, Labour seem hell bent on ignoring local democracy and ploughing ahead with their preferred combinations at all costs.

He would however make a very capable chairman (if the post arises), while Eric Pickles would be invaluable in overseeing local authorities, especially if our once much vaunted local democracy is to be implemented.

While the reality is not so straightforward, by making election information easily available in a one - stop - shop location, rather than hidden away in spreadsheets, pdfs and other documents spread across dozens of official websites, this has the potential to bring local democracy closer to people.

07 June 2008 in Conservative Council Innovation Unit, Eric Pickles MP, Local democracy Permalink Comments (22)

These articles cover many aspects of village life - including local democracy, provision of water, education and opportunities for women, caste problems etc..

To their detractors, they are a distraction and a further step away from local democracy and accountability.

In Keiller's analysis of the populace's efforts to cope with these forces and the changes they set in motion, I recognize the projects of some of the artists in this book: «As individuals, we can't rebuild the public transport system, or re-empower local democracy, but we can poeticize our relationship with their dilapidation.»

Backdraft # 6: Jesse Ribot on Why It's So Important for Climate Interventions to Work Through Local Democracy

Yet not all legislative bodies are willing to preempt local democracy, which is why, as CMD documented, after a flurry of anti-fracking measures nearly missed being placed on the November ballot in Colorado, fossil fuel interests funded Amendment 71, a ballot initiative designed to make it harder for Coloradans to petition their government and amend the state Constitution.

In this video interview, Khenin discusses his plans for building a greener Tel Aviv, with greater social justice and more transparent local democracy.

But as the legislative preemption strategy shows, there's little room for local democracy in ALEC's vision of freedom.

«I think the contempt that Theresa May showed to local democracy by calling a Westminster election right in the middle of a local election is appalling.

Tory measures are condemned but without a mention of academisation or free schools or the ripping of schools out of the framework of local democracy.

As the vanguard city - region underpinning the wider Northern Powerhouse vision of the Cameron governments, the Greater Manchester mayoral elections were a critical litmus test offering insights into the possibility that metro mayors outside London could stimulate local democracy.

But reruns in future will be opportunities to revitalise local democracy and to improve the visibility of devolution deals.

«Social liberalism seeks to enhance the freedom of the individual as well as empower them and their communities as part of a vibrant local democracy.

And worse yet, Ontario Liberals and the NDPee have defeated MPP Lisa Thompson's Bill 39 to restore affordable energy by curtailing wind power and restoring local democracy.

As MPs are pounding the streets of Eastleigh today trying to drum up the last vestiges of party support, is local democracy fighting back?

These were intended not just to give us better - run police forces, but to energise local democracy and attract dedicated people from outside party politics into the world of accountable public service management