The search for democracy
Subtitle: a guide to and polemic about Scottish Local Government.
Contributors: Paisley College of Technology. Local Government Research Unit.
Publisher: Heatherbank Press for the Local Government Research Unit, Paisley College of Technology
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Milngavie
Language: eng
Format: A5
Number of pages: 135
First sentence: The aim of this book is three-fold - to inform, to provoke and to call to action....
Description: The booklet was published 2 years after a major restructuring of Scottish local government. In the name of increasing its power, the number of local authorities was reduced from 625 to 65 and was controversial. The author was a regional councillor and academic - very conscious of the questions the public were asking about the new system - and structures his analysis around 43 questions
Table of contents: label: Part I
title: Recent History - birthpangs or death throes?