Town hall power or Whitehall pawn?
By: [contributions by] David King ... [et al.] ; with commentaries by Linda Whetstone, Merrie Cave, Anthony Bays ; introduction by the seminar chairman, Arthur Seldon.
Contributors: King, David N.
Series: IEA readings -- 25.
Publisher: Institute of Economic Affairs
Published: 1980
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Local government -- Great Britain -- Congresses.; Public welfare -- Great Britain -- Congresses.; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: " ...based on a Seminar in June 1980 ... "--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Local government finance and local government autonomy / David N. King; value: Imperialist manoeuvres in 'public' education and welfare / Digby C. Anderson; value: Some problem with social research / W.W. Sharrock; value: Central government's ineptitude in monitoring local welfare / June Lait; value: Three fallacies, ideological error in local government thinking? / David Marsland; value: How far can local government act with real autonomy if financed largely by central government? / Sir John Grugeon; value: The economics of bureaucracy and local government / Keith Hartley; value: How to save local government / G.W. Jones.