Customer Rating: 
Summary: This is an excellent book
Comment: I wouldn't ordinarily review a book on a website but I have had to intervene when I saw that this book has received one star. My Doctoral research is centred on local government and I am a practitioner. From both perspectives (academic and practitioner) I can say that this book is the benchmark text on local government, and I speak as someone who has read widely on the subject for my literature review. It is the core text on many courses for a reason. It is also into it's fourth edition for a reason: it's great. I personally find the writing style very accessible and a change from the dry style adopted by many other texts on local government.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: The worst written book I have ever had the misfortune of reading
Comment: This book is the core text book for my postgraduate course and thus, I have read it from cover to cover. This was a painful experience to say the least. The content is fine - the book does not fail on subject matter, however, it is the most poorly written textbook I have ever come across.
The sentence construction is abmissmal and it simply makes no sense at times. You end up distracted from the content as the words are not in the right order, the grammar is skewed and the way it is written is simply ridiculous.
I felt so strongly about the quality of this book that I had to write this review. Do not buy this book - try to search for an alternative if possible. Its not worth the hassle of cringing at least once every five minutes at the fact the writers have no grasp of basic grammar or appropriate use of vocabulary.
and i quote...'very much more limited'
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