WoodBruce: ‘Local Government in England and Wales’ in MinogueMartin ed: The Consumer's Guide to Local Government, MacMillan for the National Consumer Council, 2nd Edn. 1980.
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DearloveJ.: The Reorganisation of British Local Government: Old Orthodoxies and a Political Perspective, Cambridge UP, 1979.
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For the full development of this argument seeSchafferBernard: ‘Insiders and Outsiders: Insidedness, Incorporation, and Bureaucratic Politics’, Development and Change. Vol. II (1980) 187–210.
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Corina notes several examples in his analysis of the experience of the Community Development Projects. Lewis Corina ‘Local Government Decisionmaking’; Papers. in Community Studies, 2, 1975. Department of Social Administration and Social Work, University of York.
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DearloveJ.: The Politics of Policy in Local Government, Cambridge University Press, 1973.
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NewtonK.: Second City Politics(Birmingham) Oxford UP, 1975.
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For an interesting general discussion of the problem of explaining variations in service provision seeLewisJanet ‘Variations in Service Provision: Politics at the Lay-Professional Interface’ in YoungKen ed: Essays on the Study of Urban Politics, Macmillan, 1975.
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The only genuine, and impressive example is provided by Cynthia Cockburn The Local State: management of cities and people. Pluto Press, 1977. Cockburn uses Marxist-based theories of class struggle and the repressive capitalist state to interpret relations between the local authority and the local community in Lambeth Borough.
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One of the larger county councils, with a population of 925,000 and total expenditure in 1979–80 of £245m. The fifteen participants were all Principal Officers, some responsible for the direct administration and control of budgets running into several million pounds. Most had regular interaction with elected members and with the chief officers of the authority. About two thirds were graduates, the remainder coming up ‘through the ranks’. 12 of the 15 officers had been with the authority for a substantial length of time.
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‘I would rather be divorced from the howls of the community, because I know how I have to act’: Deputy Leader of the Conservative group, Lambeth Borough Council (1968–71), quoted in Cockburn, 1977.
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See particularly the research report of the Robinson Committee: Remuneration of Councillors, Vol II. Surveys of Councillors and Local Authorities, HMSO, 1978.
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The average participation of local electorates is between 30 and 40%, compared with average participation of the national electorate of more than 70 per cent.
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‘Devolution and other aspects of government: an attitudes survey’: Commission on the Constitution, Research Papers 7, HMSO 1973.
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For a stimulating discussion of myth, symbols and the linguistic manipulation of concepts, see Roland Barthes: Mythologies, Jonathan Cape, 1972.
