Managing Policy Change in Britain: The Politics of Water

by Jeremy J. Richardson and W. Maloney

This analysis of the politics of water describes the historical development of the water industry through the 1980s privatization controversy in England and Wales and the contentious hybrid reorganization in Scotland, to current environmental and social concerns. Against a background of Europeanized policy-making, it shows how privatization and increasing EC influence have shifted water policy from the private management of public business, to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748606696
• ISBN13: 9780748606696
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.4"