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Local Government and Thatcherism

Hugh Butcher Ian G Law Robert Leach Maurice Mullard

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  • 176 sidor
  • 2024
The 1980s witnessed an unprecedented series of initiatives aimed at transforming the role and manner of local government operations in Britain. First published in 1990, Local Government and Thatcherism provides a clear and up-to-date framework for understanding the impact of Thatcherism on local government during this period and explores future prospects. The authors examine the effect of the Thatcher Revolution on the policy and practice of local government, looking at the role of ideology in key policy areas such as finance, public services, local economic development, race, and decentralization. Beginning with an analysis of the evolution of local government, the authors situate Thatcherism in the context of Municipal Toryism, and discuss changes in local finance, including the introduction of the community charge. They focus on changes in public policy, particularly innovations like grant-maintained schools and Housing Action Trusts and look in detail at economic regeneration and equal opportunities, two areas in local policy development which are increasingly under threat from centralizing tendencies. The authors conclude that the revolution in local government is aimed at nothing less than recasting the local socio-political order and political process. Coming to terms with these challenges, they believe, will change the face of local government in 1990s; the contract authority, the enterprising authority, and the business-corporatist authority. Lucid and stimulating, this discussion will be invaluable to students of British politics, and public and social administration, and to all those who wish to know more about the future of local government.
  • Författare: Hugh Butcher, Ian G Law, Robert Leach, Maurice Mullard
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781032962276
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 176
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-12-02
  • Förlag: Routledge