Territorial politics in the United Kingdom: the politics of change, conflict and contradiction

In: West European politics, Band 10, Heft Oct 87

Abstract

Attempts to demonstrate that differentiation, disaggregation and interdependence are of equivalent importance to parliamentary sovereignty, cabinet government and prime ministerial power for the analysis of British government in general and territorial politics in particular. Concludes that postwar trends cannot be seen as the erosion of 'local autonomy' but are better described as the growth of interdependence between levels of government; the proliferation of ambiguous and confused relationships; and thus the coexistence of fragmentation in the centre with the centralisation of each policy network. (Abstract amended)