State & Local Government: Chartist Magazine November/December 2011
by Tom Davidson
This review is unique as far as I am concerned, since it is the only time I have reviewed a book which has been dedicated to me (as well as to Brendan Bird, Gerry Harrison, the late Ron Stockbridge, and Mick Williams). We all co-operated with the author in the Campaign for Open Local Government (LCOLG] which opposed New Labour's legislation which attempted to impose executive mayors and town managers on local government. We sought to keep the option to retain the committee system.
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