1st Edition

Planning and the Politicians and Other Essays

By A. H. Hanson Copyright 1969
370 Pages
by Routledge

367 Pages
by Routledge

367 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1969, Planning and the Politicians is a collection of essays on political subjects, which ranges from a study of the British House of Commons, through a discussion of decentralization in various countries, to an examination of the problems of economic planning in a ‘new’ state. They are arranged in four sections, entitled Parliament, Administration, Development, and... Read more

Introduction: On Professing Politics Parliament 1. The Purpose of Parliament 2. The Use of Committees by the House of Commons 3. The Labour Party and House of Commons Reform 4. Parliament, Minister and Board 5. Parliament and the control of University Expenditure Administration 6. Public Administration and the Social Order in Twentieth-century Britain 7. Decentralization 8. Planning and the Politicians: Some Reflections on Economic Planning in Western Europe 9. Labour and the Public Corporation 10. Political and Administrative Implications of a Self-financing Road System Development 11. Turkey in 1954 12. The Crisis of Indian Planning 13. The Administration of Planning 14. Grass Roots 15. Public Authorities in Underdeveloped Countries 16. Nile and Niger: Two Agricultural Projects 17. Professor Riggs and Mr Waterston on Development Administration 18. Towards Starvation? Principles 19. On Not Being a Communist: Two Polemics 20. Political Philosophy or Political Science? 21. What Politics is About 22. The Rights of Modern Man Index

Biography

A. H. Hanson