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Understanding Central-Local Government Relations

Over the last twenty years, the nature of the relationship between local government and the central State has been the subject of fairly intense inquiry. Since the central-local relationship has provided one of the main institutional forums through which the ideological struggles of late twentieth century British politics has been contested, this is not altogether surprising. These various investigations have certainly enhanced our understanding of the system. It was therefore hardly a matter of great controversy when, in a recent review of the