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During the 1960s and 1970s, no one paid much attention to the politics of local government. It was a political backwater, an administrative arm of central government without an independent ‘politics’ of its own. Local councils were assumed by many academics and policy makers to be concerned with making practical, non-political decisions, guided by the judgement of professional officers.
‘Local government was regarded by the Left as nothing more than the rest home for the geriatric Right’ (Seyd, 1987).
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© 1989 Stewart Lansley, Sue Goss and Christian Wolmar
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Lansley, S., Goss, S., Wolmar, C. (1989). The Beginnings. In: Councils in Conflict. Public Policy and Politics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20231-7_1
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