This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter iv the reorganisation of local government It is usual to underrate the magnitude, the range and the social importance of the part of government and administration which is not organised nationally, but is entrusted to the Local Authorities. Solemn treatises on the British Constitution scarcely ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter iv the reorganisation of local government It is usual to underrate the magnitude, the range and the social importance of the part of government and administration which is not organised nationally, but is entrusted to the Local Authorities. Solemn treatises on the British Constitution scarcely mention the form or the power, the functions or the activities, of the Councils of Parishes, Rural and Urban Districts, Boroughs and Counties, and, indeed, the thousands of local governing bodies by which, in fact, the greater part of British public administration is conducted. In the first part of this book we dealt with the Local Authorities in their economic aspect as obligatory associations of consumers supplying the inhabitants of their several areas with an ever-widening range of commodities and services, and incidentally as having directly on their pay-rolls something like one million families, or nearly one-tenth of the whole population. We refrained from describing the chaotic state into which British Local Government has got, alike in areas of administration, in constitutional structure, and in confusion of powers and finances. We did so deliberately, because we foresaw that, when we came to our constructive proposals, we could neither explain nor justify them except in close connection with an explicit account of the need for local, as distinguished from national, administration, and of the deplorabl: condition into which the whole organisation of loci government has been allowed in Great Britain to fall. The Decay Of Civic Patriotism When the indictment of capitalist profit-mafe comes to be formulated with any completeness there will be no count more serious than its destruction c. local patriotism as an incident in its heedless...
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 700grams, ISBN: 0521208513.
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Very Good. 1920. Printed by the authors for the Trade Unionists of the United Kingdom 1920. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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