Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Old orthodoxies and towards a political perspective; Part I. The Boundary Problem: 2. Democracy in local government; 3. Efficiency and local government; 4. Councillor calibre and the boundary problem; Appendix; Part II. The Management Problem: 5. From traditional administration to corporate management; 6. Orthodoxy explored; 7. Organisational change and the problem of implementation; 8. Councillor and official calibre and the management problem; 9. A political perspective on the contemporary reorganisation of British local government; References; Indices.

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John Dearlove's aim is to make sense of the changes brought about by the Local Government Act of 1972 and the discussion they generated.