{"product_id":"power-and-party-in-an-david-g-green-9780415860338","title":"Power and Party in an English City: An account of single-party rule","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePower and Party in an English City \u003c\/em\u003eprovides an account of how decisions are taken by the state at the level of locality. More specifically, it is an account of the private policy-making activities of a ruling Labour group of councillors in the major English city of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Despite the fact that local government in most of the towns and cities of England is one-party government, very little is known abotu the private behaviour of ruling party groups. In this book David Green provides a penetrating empirical study of the realities of local government.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe author seeks to examine and analyse the importance of party discipline, the relationship between the Labour group of councillors and the party outside the council, the power of the committee chairmen, the role of local patronage and the openness of the local policy-making process. The government of Newcastle is perhaps the most closely association in the public mind with T. Dan Smith, the corrupt local politician. In fact, Smith had left local politics in Newcastle in teh mid-1960s. How was the city being run a decade or so later?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis study is however much more than an inside view of the affairs of a single authority. The last part of the book is devoted to a discussion of aspects of some traditional and modern theories of democracy and specifically to what author sees as the inadequate advocacy of participatory democracy in recent years. Green makes a major contribution to our thinking about the kind of democracy that is possible in modern large-scale societies, explores weaknesses of moder theories and puts forward some original modifications to modern democratic theory, in the light of a theory of knowledge which is seen as more appropriate for modern natural and social scientific activity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book was first published in 1981.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David G. Green\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415860334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415860338\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.52d","brand":"David G. Green","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48443484864767,"sku":"9780415860338","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_92f4a89a-76ee-4fd5-81ad-f80c37eb0daf.jpg?v=1777205839","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/power-and-party-in-an-david-g-green-9780415860338","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}