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In this chapter we address that deceptively simple question: why elected local government? In Chapter 2 we identified the defining characteristics of our local government system and some of the challenges facing it in the 1990s. We look now at the principles underpinning that system, at its rationale and raison d’être, its value and values. Most of this chapter will emphasise the benefits and positive attributes of elected local government as we defined it in Chapter 2. The emphasis reflects a bias to which we readily admit: a predisposition in favour of decentralisation of power and against its undue concentration.
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© 1994 David Wilson and Chris Game
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Wilson, D., Game, C., Leach, S., Stoker, G. (1994). Why Elected 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_3
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