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Nationalizing Local Politics and Localizing a National Party: the Liberal Role in Local Government*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Robert Pinkney
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Government and Opposition , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , 01 July 1983 , pp. 347 - 358
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1983

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1 Gyford, J., ‘Political Parties and Central‐Local Government Relations’ in Jones, G. W. (ed.), New Approaches to the Study of Central Local Relationships, Farnborough, Gower, 1980, pp. 28–39.Google Scholar

2 Watkin, B., Various articles on Liberal policy in local government, Liberal News, 11 01 1957 to 29 03 1957.Google Scholar

3 Much of the information which follows is based on interviews with former local goverment officers Lord Chitnis, Michael Meadowcroft and David Deeley; former community politics co‐ordinators Andrew Ellis and John Smithson, and the present Secretary of the Association of Liberal Councillors Tony Greaves, although they are not responsible for any of the opinions expressed.

4 I. East, The Liberal Party and the New Left in Britain, unpublished dissertation, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1980, p. 3 onwards.

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12 ALC membership was 2,087 in June 1982, at a time when there were 1,800 Liberal councillors. See ALC Bulletin, No. 3, 1982. Even after allowing for the fact that a minority of the ALC’s members are not councillors, the proportion of councillors who are members is extremely high.

13 Gyford in Jones, Op. cit., pp. 28–9.

14 P. Winch, Wot? No Policy?, Hebden Bridge, Association of Liberal Councillors, p. 3.

15 Ibid., p. 4.

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