Titlebook: Local Government in the United Kingdom; David Wilson,Chris Game,Gerry Stoker Textbook 1994Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1994

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Introduction - Our Aims And Approacher of our acquaintance’. Pretentious perhaps, but it is relevant. The politician had better remain nameless, though his (a small but not very helpful clue!) identity may well be guessable from his having served as both Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and Minister for Local Government. Re

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Why Elected Local Government?our local government system and some of the challenges facing it in the 1990s. We look now at the principles underpinning that system, at its rationale and ., its value and values. Most of this chapter will emphasise the benefits and positive attributes of elected local government as we defined it i

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The Development of Local Governments roots in the last 150 years and beyond but, as Keith-Lucas and Richards emphasise (1978, p. 35), local government ‘was not evolved to provide a co-ordinated system of administration for a logically defined range of services; it emerged, piecemeal, in answer to a succession of separate needs and de

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Current Structuresright’, not least because structural change can provide political advantage and hence help to facilitate control. This chapter builds upon the material in Chapter 4 and provides a two-part discussion. The first part examines external structures while the second part looks at the management structure

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Central-Local Government Relationss take place. Formal frameworks must, however, always be studied alongside actual working relationships — hence the dynamics of central-local relations come under scrutiny next. The third part of the chapter highlights the important role of the Department of the Environment (DoE). Finally a number o

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Finance - The Recent Storyhe budget process in one particular local authority. In this chapter we take several steps back, so that we can view the whole system of local government finance and the way it has changed over the past two decades.