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This chapter introduces some of the main issues and themes of UK local government in the 1990s. It then identifies some of the key defining characteristics of our local government system. We start by trying to demonstrate the value of our own advice about the benefits of following local government in the national and local press. If, for example, you had been scanning the press in the winter of 1992/93, the headlines that might have caught your eye would almost certainly have included some of those in Exhibit 2.1.
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© 1994 David Wilson and Chris Game
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Wilson, D., Game, C., Leach, S., Stoker, G. (1994). Themes and Issues in Local Government. In: Local Government in the United Kingdom. Government Beyond the Centre. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23377-9_2
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