Decision‐making in local government ‐the case of an ‘independent’ council

Local Political Leadership in Britain: Rake's Progress or Search for the Holy Grail?

“…Even so the extent to which councils developed these structures varied widely. A few local authorities more or less rejected corporate management altogether, sticking to their traditional modes of operation (Haywood, 1977). Nonetheless, most local authorities had established all or at least some of the following structures by the mid-1970s (See Elcock, 1994;1996 for more details):…”