The relationship between citizens and local decision makers is a long standing policy pre-occupation and has often been the subject of debate by politicians across parties. Recent governments have sought to empower, activate, and give responsibility to some citizens, while other groups have been abandoned or ignored. This book provides a pertinent and robustly empirical contribution to current debates amongst policy makers, academics, practitioners, and local communities about how to respond to this changing policy framework. The book draws on extensive ~up-to-date empirical work by leading UK researchers in the field. It explains what the debates about local governance mean for local people. It explores governance and citizenship in relation to multiculturalism, economic migration, community cohesion, housing markets, neighborhoods, faith organizations, behavior change, and e-democracy in order to establish a differentiated, contemporary view of the ways that citizens are constituted