Research Report 3 - Improving the Representativeness of Councillors: An International Literature Review

 Published  10 December 2007
 Product code  07 PRO 04892/3
 Price  Free


Summary

In February 2007, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government announced a new Councillors Commission to consider how to encourage more
people from a wider range of backgrounds to become (and remain) local authority councillors. In order to inform the deliberations and recommendations of the
Commission, Communities and Local Government commissioned an international literature review on the representativeness of local councils. Specifically, this study set out to explore, in an international context, the barriers and incentives to becoming a councillor.

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