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Power and Party in an English City: An account of single-party rule book cover

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Power and Party in an English City An account of single-party rule

By David G. Green Copyright 1981
244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge
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Power and Party in an English City provides an account of how decisions are taken by the state at the level of locality. More specifically, it is an account of the private policy-making activities of a ruling Labour group of councillors in the major English city of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Despite the fact that local government in most of the towns and cities of England is one-party government,... Read more

1. Introduction

PART ONE: THE LOCAL PARTY

2. Party membership and organisation

3. Membership activity

4. The party and the group

PART TWO: THE COMMITTEES

5. The group and decision making

6. The power of the group leader

7. Group discipline

PART THREE: THE COMMITTEES
8. The distribution of power in the committee process

9. Pre-Caucus deliberation

10. The Labour pre-meetings

PART FOUR: THE INDIVIDUAL LABOUR COUNCILLOR

11. The power of the individual councillor

12. The councillor's resources

PART FIVE: THE GROUP AND THE CITIZEN
13. The citizen's access to official information

PART SIX: SOME CONCLUSIONS AND POSSIBLE REFORMS

14. Liberty of criticism and the validity of our knowledge

15. Some principles of good government

Biography

David G. Green

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