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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Half a Century of Municipal Decline: 1935-1985

Half a Century of Municipal Decline: 1935-1985

Louglin, Martin
Gelfand, M. David
Young, Ken

Paperback

General SociologyGeography

ISBN10: 0415860350
ISBN13: 9780415860352
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 7 2013
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Local government passed unscathed through the political and economic upheavals which followed the Great Depression. Contemporary commentators had every reason to look forward to continued growth and expansion in the role of local government, which was seen as the main vehicle for the social programmes of the comeing Welfare State. That optimism was misplaced. Many of the trends of the early twentieth century have been reveresed. From the vantage point of 1985, local government was in crisis so severe that its continued existence was called into question. In this unique book eleven authors explain what happened and how the local government system weakened. Political, financial, economic and legal issues are explored, as are factors such as housing, planning, and social welfare.

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