Publisher's Synopsis
For more than a century two linked themes have predominated in the development of local government: promoting efficiency and effectiveness and securing able people as councillors. This book is a study of councillors as they were in the heyday of local government and as they are today. Using survey evidence, it illuminates councillorsÆ responses to the pressures of contemporary local government and considers their implications for the future role of councillors. It establishes that the choice now facing Britain is between the final attrition of local democracy and the ôôôôre-makingö of local government.
