Institutional Illegality and Disobedience: Local Government Narratives
Institutional Illegality and Disobedience: Local Government Narratives
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制度违法和不服从：地方政府的叙述
DOI：
10.1093/ojls/16.2.255
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发表时间：
1996
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Davina Cooper
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作者：
Davina Cooper
市政府的反抗让人想起 20 世纪 80 年代“疯狂左派”的许多过激行为；当议会试图挑战并击败撒切尔政府时，地方社会主义变得疯狂。评论家指出了发生此类斗争的一系列场所：市政财政、议会房屋销售、平等机会政策、教育提供和公共服务私有化。虽然并非全部涉及公开的非法行为，但他们对政府政策的质疑挑战了合宪性的权威和合法性。作者使用法制化、司法化和司法化的范式探讨了法律对市政府的影响。2这项工作对于确定中央与地方关系的变化框架，以及强调新法律、司法审查和日益严格的自由裁量权限制对地方政府的影响非常有帮助。然而，关于行政违法的说法却较少。在讨论时，它往往被视为一个外围的实施问题（表明地方自由裁量权过多），而不是其本身作为一个重要的结构手段。在本文中，我将非法性视为法律不可避免的剩余——被驱逐，但始终存在，构成法律的核心，因为没有非法性，合法性就没有任何意义。正如我在下面探讨的那样，非法行为可以被视为“女性化的他者”：被征服、神秘和狂野，被其男性气质所掌握、发现和暴露。
Municipal defiance conjures up for many the excesses of the 1980s 'loony left'; local socialism gone wild as councils attempted to take on and beat the Thatcher Government. Commentators point to a range of sites upon which such struggles took place: municipal finance, council house sales, equal opportunity policies, education provision, and the privatization of public services.' While not all involved overtly illegal behaviour, their contesting of government policy challenged the authority and legitimacy of constitutionality. Law's impact on municipal government has been explored by writers using paradigms of legalization, juridification, and judicialization.2 This work has been extremely helpful in identifying the changing framework of central-local relations, and in highlighting the impact on local government of new laws, judicial review, and growing constraints on discretion. Less, however, has been said about administrative illegality. When discussed, it tends to be treated as a peripheral, implementation problem-indicative of excessive local discretion-rather than as a significant structuring device in its own right. In this paper, I centre illegality as law's inevitable surplus--expelled, yet always present, constituted at the heart of law, for legality can have no meaning without it. As I explore below, illegality can be seen as the 'feminized other': subjugated, mysterious, and wild, to be mastered, discovered and bared by its masculine