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Questioning the new opportunities to become involved in local decisionmaking
04-03-2007 · EurekAlert!People and organisations that in the past have been excluded from the process are now being invited to participate in decisionmaking about their own communities, but a new booklet entitled "Localism and local governance," published today by the Economic and Social Research Council, questions whether it is really happening.
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