Local government in Europe: retrenchment, restructuring and British exceptionalism.

From: West European Politics | Date: July 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

This article compares the strategy of British governments towards elected local government following the onset of fiscal stress in the mid-1970s with those of two other western European countries with a unitary system of government: France and Sweden. The conclusion reached is that, notwithstanding different national configurations of central-local government relations and the distinctiveness of the British strategy, there are similar policy and institutional outcomes in each case. In so far as such outcomes are taking place irrespective of the party political or ideological complexion of ...

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