Local Partnership and Social Exclusion in the European Union: New Forms of Local Social Governance?

Mike Geddes is Principal Research Fellow and Research Manager in the Local Government Centre, University of Warwick. His previous publications include Partnership against Social Exclusion? Local Regeneration Strategies and Excluded Communities.,
John Benington is Professor of Public Policy and Management at the University of Warwick, and Director of the Local Government Centre since its inception in 1988. He has published widely, including coediting Restructuring the Local Economy, and coauthoring Changing Europe, and Urban Poverty, The Economy and Public Policy. He has acted as adviser to government ministers, senior policy makers and managers in the UK, EU and Africa. He is currently leading the development of a new Institute of Governance and Public Management at the University of Warwick.