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Full Title

Half a Century of Municipal Decline 1935-1985 1st Edition

Author(s)

Martin Loughlin

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781135669676, 9780415860352, 9780415417501, 9780203716281, 9781135669607, 9781135669744

Publisher

Routledge

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Local government passed unscathed through the political and economic upheavals which followed the Great Depression. Contemporary commentators had every reason to look forward to continued growth and expansion in the role of local government, which was seen as the main vehicle for the social programmes of the comeing Welfare State. That optimism was misplaced. Many of the trends of the early twentieth century have been reveresed. From the vantage point of 1985, local government was in crisis so severe that its continued existence was called into question. In this unique book eleven authors explain what happened and how the local government system weakened. Political, financial, economic and legal issues are explored, as are factors such as housing, planning, and social welfare. This book was first published in 1985.