An Era of Continuing Change: Reflections on Local Government in England 1974–2014
An Era of Continuing Change: Reflections on Local Government in England 1974–2014
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持续变革的时代：1974-2014 年英国地方政府的反思
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2014
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J. Stewart
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J. Stewart
本文从更长远的历史角度来看待地方政府的现状。本书首先讨论了1974年的地方政府重组，并认为许多决定地方政府工作方式的原则和假设在重组后没有改变。然而，接下来的40年是持续变化的40年，其中大部分是由中央政府强制实施的，本文讨论了个别变化的零碎实施以及由此产生的不确定和不稳定的气氛。接下来是对这些变化的累积影响的分析，并确定关键问题，文章最后利用这一分析，列出了如果要在未来实现地方政府的全部潜力，必须应对的挑战。
Abstract This article sets the current position of local government in a longer historical perspective. It begins with a discussion of the 1974 local government reorganisation and argues that many of the principles and assumptions determining the ways of working of local authorities remained unchanged after this reorganisation. However, the next 40 years were ones of continuing change, much of it imposed by central government, and the article discusses the often piecemeal implementation of individual changes and the resulting atmosphere of uncertainty and instability. This is followed by an analysis of the cumulative impact of the changes and identifying key problems, and the article concludes by drawing on this analysis to set out the challenges that have to be met if the full potential of the local government is to be realised in the future.