INTRODUCTION TO FRENCH LOCAL GOVERNMENT
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.1953.tb01684.x |
| Published date | 01 June 1953 |
| Date | 01 June 1953 |
INTRODUCTION TO FRENCH
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
By
BRIAN
CHAPMAN
Pp.
238. Price
18s.
(13/6
to.members of the Institute of Public Administration
ordenng direct from the Institute).
THIS
book is the kst post-war study in either French or English
of
the institutions and law relating to French local government,
and
on
the current practice
of
French local administration. It is
essentially a study in political science and not in law, and therefore,
although the basic laws governing local institutions are dealt with
in
some detail, the aim is to give a living picture of those institutions
at work.
After
a
prelikinary account of the local institutions and personalities
to be encountered, there are special chapters devoted to local
government finance, the administrative courts, tutelage, and the
administration of Paris.
The book assumes
no
previous knowledge of the subject. It should
be
of
the greatest interest to all those who have a professional or
educational interest in local government.
By
comparison it
illuminates our own attempts to solve the contemporary problem
of
combining central efficiency with local democracy. The book
will be of obvious interest to all students of French government
and of comparative public institutions.
GEORGE ALLEN
&
UNWIN LIMITED
40
MUSEUM STREET,
LONDON,
W.C.l
188
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