1. Local government before 1832 --2. The impact of industrialisation --3. Compromise and confusion: the ad hoc local governments of mid-Victorian Britain --4. Municipal government to its zenith --5. Restructuring local government --6. The turning point: growth with decline --7. The slow road to 'modernisation' --8. War and social democracy --9. 'Modernising' the system 1951-79 --10. Professionalism and alienation --11. Thatcher and Major --12. New Labour --13. Accounting for the evolution of local government in Britain --Appendices --Bibliography --Index.
1. Local government before 1832 --2. The impact of industrialisation --3. Compromise and confusion: the ad hoc local governments of mid-Victorian Britain --4. Municipal government to its zenith --5. Restructuring local government --6. The turning point: growth with decline --7. The slow road to 'modernisation' --8. War and social democracy --9. 'Modernising' the system 1951-79 --10. Professionalism and alienation --11. Thatcher and Major --12. New Labour --13. Accounting for the evolution of local government in Britain --Appendices --Bibliography --Index.
1. Local government before 1832 --2. The impact of industrialisation --3. Compromise and confusion: the ad hoc local governments of mid-Victorian Britain --4. Municipal government to its zenith --5. Restructuring local government --6. The turning point: growth with decline --7. The slow road to 'modernisation' --8. War and social democracy --9. 'Modernising' the system 1951-79 --10. Professionalism and alienation --11. Thatcher and Major --12. New Labour --13. Accounting for the evolution of local government in Britain --Appendices --Bibliography --Index.
