ENTWISTLE, Tom
Explaining the birth of the Local Government Association - 2002
In the summer of 1995 the three local authority associations that had provided english and Welsh local authorities with their national representation voted to merge and form the Local Government Association. This article explains the merger as dependent upon the coincidence of three conditions. The first was a positive belief in the benefits of merger shared by the leaderships of the three associations. The sencond was a disruption of the status quo prompeted by the Conservative government's proposals for local government reorganisatio. the third was a change in Labor Party policy away from the defence of a dedicated metropolitan association to a preference for a unified cross-party association
Explaining the birth of the Local Government Association - 2002
In the summer of 1995 the three local authority associations that had provided english and Welsh local authorities with their national representation voted to merge and form the Local Government Association. This article explains the merger as dependent upon the coincidence of three conditions. The first was a positive belief in the benefits of merger shared by the leaderships of the three associations. The sencond was a disruption of the status quo prompeted by the Conservative government's proposals for local government reorganisatio. the third was a change in Labor Party policy away from the defence of a dedicated metropolitan association to a preference for a unified cross-party association
