The Process of Local Government Reform

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How does the British policy-making process handlé a major reorganisation in the structure of government? How and why did the 1974 local government reforms come about? What in-fluences, pressures, compromises were involved ? The Process of Local Government Reform 1966-74 provides the most detailed account so far available of the process by which the 1972 Local Government Act was approved by Parliament following the Redcliffe-Maud report and two White Papers. At the same time, as a case study of the British policy-making process, it examines more generál issues about the political manoeuvring of groups in conflict, the concept of 'government by Commission' and the rangé of political strategies open to Government decision-makers.
The book examines the work of the Redcliffe-Maud Commission in the light of constraints on the Commission's freedom of action. It then assesses the strategies, timing and motivation of the various groups of proximate decision-makers - Governments and... Tovább

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How does the British policy-making process handlé a major reorganisation in the structure of government? How and why did the 1974 local government reforms come about? What in-fluences, pressures, compromises were involved ? The Process of Local Government Reform 1966-74 provides the most detailed account so far available of the process by which the 1972 Local Government Act was approved by Parliament following the Redcliffe-Maud report and two White Papers. At the same time, as a case study of the British policy-making process, it examines more generál issues about the political manoeuvring of groups in conflict, the concept of 'government by Commission' and the rangé of political strategies open to Government decision-makers.
The book examines the work of the Redcliffe-Maud Commission in the light of constraints on the Commission's freedom of action. It then assesses the strategies, timing and motivation of the various groups of proximate decision-makers - Governments and Oppositions, senior civil servants, local authorities and local authority associ-ations, and other professional groups, in an attempt to go behind the rhetoric and formai statements towards a real understanding of the complex relation-ships involved.
The Process of Local Government Reform 1966-74 will prove essential reading for students of British Government policy-making and political pro-cesses; of administrative change and innovation; of central-local relations and for all those, both inside and outside local government, who are in-terested in the wider issues of town and county hall. Vissza