LOCAL GOVERNMENT REFORM IN THE US - AND WHY IT DIFFERS SO GREATLY FROM BRITAIN.

NORRIS, DONALD F.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT STUDIES, n.º 3/1997, pág. 113

1. Local government reorganisation in britain. 2. Local government reform in the us. a) Era of Jacksonian Democracy. b) The urban machine and the age of reform. c) Metropolitan reform. 3. Factors constraining local government reform in the United States. a) Federal Constitution. b) Local government status in State Constitutions. c) State Political tradition. d) Local government ideology. e) Local government autonomy. f) Strength of pro-sprawl forces. 4. Implications for britains.