Recent Developments in Central

Local Government Fiscal Relations

Bibliographic Data

ID11449082
AuthorsMartin Loughlin (0000-0002-6102-6453, corresponding author)
Year1982
Volume9
Issue2
Pages253
Publication date1982-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Law and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-323X • E-ISSN: 1467-6478
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1410177
OpenAlexW2325495959
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited4

Political and legal relations between central and local government have been fundamentally transformed in recent years. At the heart of this transformation lies the issue of the financing of local government. In the sixties and seventies the organisation of local government was rationalised through the creation of more efficient units and by almost universal adoption of corporate management processes. But, despite the report of the Layfield Committee,[1] no widely acceptable reforms to the system of local government finance were promoted. Instead, Governments have dealt with this issue since the mid-seventies purely as an incident to their macroeconomic policy objectives in a period of economic crisis and consequent state retrenchment. As a result, relations between central and local government have been severely strained and many have claimed that the tradition of local self-government has been virtually destroyed. The validity of such claims, however, is difficult to assess, if only because of the complexity of the system of local government finance. The aim of this paper is to provide an account of recent changes and thereby to provide a framework in which to evaluate the significance of these changes

Economics · Geography · Government (linguistics · Local government · Political science · Regional science · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Philosophy · Public Administration · Regional Development and Policy

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