%0 Journal Article
%T Community, cooperation and metropolitan democracy
%A Philip Booth
%J M¨¦tropoles
%D 2010
%I M¨¦tropoles
%X The discourse of local governance in Britain has placed heavy emphasis on the concept of community and the virtues of cooperation.  This paper looks at the origins of this discourse in the 19th century and the reasons for its revival at the end of the 20th century.  It argues that there is a tension between the formal structures of representative local government and the desire to encourage community involvement.  But it concludes that the increasing complexity is an inevitable consequence of the complexity of modern metropolitan life and that the problem is to ensure the legitimacy and accountability of the new structures created. Le discours sur la gouvernance locale en Grande-Bretagne s¡¯est centr¨¦ sur le concept de  community  et sur les vertus de la coop¨¦ration. Cet article consid¨¨re les origines de ce discours au XIXe si¨¨cle et les raisons de sa renaissance ¨¤ la fin du XXe si¨¨cle. Il d¨¦fend l¡¯id¨¦e qu¡¯il y a une tension entre les structures formelles de repr¨¦sentation du gouvernement local et le d¨¦sir de d¨¦velopper l¡¯implication de la  community . Cependant,  l¡¯article conclut sur une complexit¨¦ croissante de la gouvernance comme cons¨¦quence in¨¦vitable de la complexit¨¦ de la vie moderne en m¨¦tropole et estime que le probl¨¨me est de garantir la l¨¦gitimit¨¦ et l¡¯imputabilit¨¦ des nouvelles structures cr¨¦¨¦es.
%K Community
%K cooperation
%K metropolitan democracy
%K local government
%K Community
%K coop¨¦ration
%K d¨¦mocratie m¨¦tropolitaine
%K gouvernement local
%U http://metropoles.revues.org/4275