Professional Authority and Resource Allocation: Treasurers and Politics in UK Local Governments

David Rosenberg

Chapter 14 in Critical Perspectives in Management Control, 1989, pp 293-321 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: The rise to bureaucratic authority of elite professionals in UK local governments is part of the history of the transformation of the state in the nineteenth century. Under the old unreformed system the ruling aristocrats had ‘no desire for a regulated, bureaucratic society: they had too great a stake in personal power’.1Furthermore, under what radicals called‘old corruption’ municipal office was regarded as a form of property and a respect for such ‘rights’ acted as a barrier against bureaucratic reform. The absence of a history of the rise of elite professionals to bureaucratic authority in local governments has had a number of consequences. One, as emphasised by Rhodes, is that ‘one of the major actors in the decision making process is noticeable primarily for his absence from studies of local politics’.2

Keywords: Resource Allocation; Local Government; Central Government; Chief Executive; Service Department (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-07658-1_14

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