Documents on Contemporary British Government: Volume 2, Local Government in Britain

A selection of documents illustrating the main characteristics of local government systems in Britain during a period of extensive reform and reorganisation.

Martin Minogue (Author)

9780521291477, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 5 May 1977

484 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.71 kg

This book, originally published in 1977, is comprised of a selection of documents which have been carefully arranged and edited to illustrate the main characteristics of local government systems in Britain during a period of extensive reform and reorganisation. The intention was to give students a direct knowledge of the basic materials upon which the study of local government and its reorganisation could be founded, and to demonstrate the vitality and significance of primary sources. The material is drawn principally from the decade preceding publication, and is arranged to document reorganisation in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, as well as in England. Together with the companion volume British Government and Constitutional Change, this book was aimed as university courses in British government and politics and could be used to illuminate historical aspects of such courses today.

List of maps
Preface
Introduction
Part I. England: Areas and Purposes
Appendices
Part II. England: Local Democracy
Part III. England: Internal Management and Organisation
Part IV. England: Finance
Part V. The Government of London
Part VI. Local Government in Scotland
Part VII. Local Government in Wales
Part VIII. Local Government in Northern Ireland
Select bibliography
List of maps.

Subject Areas: Politics & government [JP]