Studies how habits of governance create institutional rigidities that dislodge law-given local autonomy to improve urban public services.

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Shortlisted for the SLSA-Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize 2011 Governing, Independence and Expertise tells the story of the not-for-profit housing sector in England,

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