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Explaining local government uniquely presents a history of local government in Britain since 1800 until the present day. The study explains how the institution evolved from a structure that appeared to be relatively free from central government interference to one of the most centralised systems of government in the Western world.

Table of Contents

1. Local government before 1832
2. The impact of industrialisation
3. Compromise and confusion: the ad hoc local governments of mid-Victorian Britain
4. Municipal government to its zenith
5. Restructuring local government
6. The turning point: growth with decline
7. The slow road to ‘modernisation’
8. War and social democracy
9. ‘Modernising’ the system 1951–79
10. Professionalism and alienation
11. Thatcher and Major
12. New Labour
13. Accounting for the evolution of local government in Britain
Appendices
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 8/31/2013 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780719067075
      978-0719067075
      ISBN-10 0719067073
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      Regional, state and other local government

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explaining local government uniquely presents a history of local government in Britain since 1800 until the present day. The study explains how the institution evolved from a structure that appeared to be relatively free from central government interference to one of the most centralised systems of government in the Western world.

      Table of Contents

      1. Local government before 1832
      2. The impact of industrialisation
      3. Compromise and confusion: the ad hoc local governments of mid-Victorian Britain
      4. Municipal government to its zenith
      5. Restructuring local government
      6. The turning point: growth with decline
      7. The slow road to ‘modernisation’
      8. War and social democracy
      9. ‘Modernising’ the system 1951–79
      10. Professionalism and alienation
      11. Thatcher and Major
      12. New Labour
      13. Accounting for the evolution of local government in Britain
      Appendices
      Bibliography
      Index

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