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Book Review: Local Government Administration — in a time of change

Despite Financial Secretary to the Treasury Francis Maude's apparently perverse statement recently (July 1991) that Government is now, in the 1990s, turning its attention to the public services having wrought a revolution in the private sector in the 1980s, most informed commentators of the governmental scene would in fact identify the public sector as one of Government's very special objects of attention during the 1980s and they could comfortably document the incidence and the magnitude of the changes which have occurred. Mallabar, in this useful volume from the Sunderland-based Business Education Publishers, contributes to the literature written from the latter perspective in his discussion of the changing nature of local government. Both as a teacher of local government administration and as a former district councillor, Mallabar knows his local authorities and is well placed to trace the various developments affecting their management and administration during the past decade or so of momentous change. The result is a good book, in places very good. It is well written, well presented and contains much useful material. It is strong on detail.