The development of English local self-government in the late 19th century(<SPECIAL ISSUE>77th annual conference)

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  • 近代イギリス地方自治制度の展開(第77回全国大会共通論題)
  • 近代イギリス地方自治制度の展開
  • キンダイ イギリス チホウ ジチ セイド ノ テンカイ

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This paper aims to survey the development of English local self-government in the late 19th century for comparative analysis with European and Asian countries. In England, the modern framework of local government had gradually been established through a series of the reforms after the 1830s, which are often called the "administrative revolution". The local authorities, which were corporations set up by statutes, assumed responsibility for a number of different functions, and the central government supervised and facilitated their activities. So the local government, although formally subordinate to the Parliament's will and constrained in their powers by the doctrine of ultra vires, worked virtually within an institutional structure that gave it wide discretion. This paper examines these developments in a historical context and considers distinctive phases in the central-local relations that are in marked contrast to those in other countries.

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