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

by Martin Minogue

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521291477
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/05/1977
Series:	Documents on Contemporary British Government , #2
Pages:	484
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.06(d)

Table of Contents

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.