Pouvoirs n°37 - La Grande-Bretagne - avril 1986 - p.59-70
Britain is no longer « the land of local government » if it ever was. Indeed if forms a differentiated and interdependent polity in which, to a large extent, the centre depends on a profusion of sub-central units for the implementation of its policies. In other words, although the notion of local autonomy is more an ideal than a reality, since most « local » policies have non-local sources, British local authorities have a negative capacity for non-comphance, or at least for a « redefinition » of the centre’s initiatives. It has generated a lot of confusion, especially when a government, Like the Thatcher administration, attempts to make local authorities comply with a budgetary discipline it cannot really enforce.
Référence électonique : Roderick RHODES, "Britain : « the land of local government » ?", Pouvoirs, revue française d’études constitutionnelles et politiques, n°37, 37 - La Grande-Bretagne,
p.59-70
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