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The Public Opinion and Local Citizenship survey is a study of attitudes towards the objectives, structures and basis of local governance. The aims of this study were to examine public and informed practitioner opinion on conceptions of the purposes of local governance and actual performance of different institutions; to examine attitudes towards recent, current and proposed changes in local governance and also the more general rules and principles that underlie these values; to test critical theoretical assumptions about the nature of attitudes and behaviour.

Simple random sample

Telephone interview