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Explaining local government, available at last in paperback, uniquely presents a history of local government in Britain from 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, as John Prescott observes, 'one of the most centralised systems of government in the Western world'. The book is accessible to A level and undergraduate students as an introduction to the development of local government in Britain but also balances values and political practice to provide a unique explanation, using primary research, of the evolution of the system.
J. A. Chandler is Professor of Local Governance in the Faculty of Organisation and Management at Sheffield Hallam University
1. Local government before 18322. The impact of industrialisation3. Compromise and confusion: the ad hoc local governments of mid-Victorian Britain4. Municipal government to its zenith5. Restructuring local government6. The turning point: growth with decline7. The slow road to ‘modernisation’8. War and social democracy9. ‘Modernising’ the system 1951–7910. Professionalism and alienation11. Thatcher and Major12. New Labour13. Accounting for the evolution of local government in BritainAppendicesBibliographyIndex
