The new centralism : Britain out of step in Europe?

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The new centralism : Britain out of step in Europe?

edited by Colin Crouch and David Marquand

B. Blackwell, 1989

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"The Political Quarterly"--Cover

Includes bibliographical references and index

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In this volume a number of contributors consider the recent trends towards increased centralization of government experienced in Britain, as compared with patterns in other parts of Europe. How strong are these trends? Where do they originate? What are the reasons for them? The findings of "The New Centralism" are that the trend outside Britain is away from centralisation, and that in particular a regional level of economic policy-making is emerging in a number of different societies which is almost entirely absent in Britain.

Table of Contents

  • The territorial dimension in British politics, and the reasons for declining tolerance of local by central government, James Bulpitt
  • an analysis of the declining autonomy of local government in Britain, Tony Travers
  • the problem of central control in British urban economic development programmes, Alan Harding
  • the question of Scotland seen in relation to increasing English centralism, Chris Harvie
  • British centralisation, French decentralisation, Douglas Ashford
  • regional economic policy it Italy, Linda Weiss
  • regional properties compared - Massachusetts and Baden-Wurttemberg, Charles Sabel.

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