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Power and Party in an English City - An account of single-party rule (Paperback)
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Power and Party in an English City - An account of single-party rule (Paperback)
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Power and Party in an English City provides an account of how
decisions are taken by the state at the level of locality. More
specifically, it is an account of the private policy-making
activities of a ruling Labour group of councillors in the major
English city of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Despite the fact that local
government in most of the towns and cities of England is one-party
government, very little is known abotu the private behaviour of
ruling party groups. In this book David Green provides a
penetrating empirical study of the realities of local government.
The author seeks to examine and analyse the importance of party
discipline, the relationship between the Labour group of
councillors and the party outside the council, the power of the
committee chairmen, the role of local patronage and the openness of
the local policy-making process. The government of Newcastle is
perhaps the most closely association in the public mind with T. Dan
Smith, the corrupt local politician. In fact, Smith had left local
politics in Newcastle in teh mid-1960s. How was the city being run
a decade or so later? This study is however much more than an
inside view of the affairs of a single authority. The last part of
the book is devoted to a discussion of aspects of some traditional
and modern theories of democracy and specifically to what author
sees as the inadequate advocacy of participatory democracy in
recent years. Green makes a major contribution to our thinking
about the kind of democracy that is possible in modern large-scale
societies, explores weaknesses of moder theories and puts forward
some original modifications to modern democratic theory, in the
light of a theory of knowledge which is seen as more appropriate
for modern natural and social scientific activity. This book was
first published in 1981.
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