{"title":"Scotland: local government and politics","authors":"James Mitchell","doi":"10.31389/BOOK1.U","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Local authorities play key roles in the devolved government of Scotland, as the only other source of elected legitimacy and as checks and balances on the domestic concentration of power in Scotland’s central institutions. James Mitchell and the Democratic Audit team explore how democratically local councils have operated.","PeriodicalId":202478,"journal":{"name":"The UK's Changing Democracy: The 2018 Democratic Audit","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The UK's Changing Democracy: The 2018 Democratic Audit","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.31389/BOOK1.U","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Local authorities play key roles in the devolved government of Scotland, as the only other source of elected legitimacy and as checks and balances on the domestic concentration of power in Scotland’s central institutions. James Mitchell and the Democratic Audit team explore how democratically local councils have operated.