Regime politics in London local government

The authors provide an encompassing eight-point characterization of regimes designed to cover all cases of this complex multicriteria concept, arguing that not all eight characteristics need be present for a regime to exist b ut that the larger the subset, the more a governing coalition constitutes a regime. The regime concept is then applied to six London boroughs during t he early to mid-1990s. They demonstrate the utility and limits of the regim e concept in identifying and explaining the politics of these boroughs at t his time, suggesting that three of the cases constitute different types of regimes, and the other three constitute failed regimes.