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- Title
BERNARD SHAW'S REFLECTIONS ON BEING A CITY COUNCILMAN.
- Authors
Hamilton, Randy H.
- Abstract
This article presents the views of playwright, novelist and critic George Bernard Shaw on being elected as a city councilman in London, England. This article presents his writings and places them in current public administration terminology. The London County Council, for instance, goes to an unfortunate wretch grimly struggling with poverty in a little shop, underfed, underclothed, underhoused and desperately in want of more money to spend on himself and his family. Labor representatives usually make excellent councillors, because they are more easily criticized than their middle class colleagues. It is possible for a middle class councillor to sit in a municipality for twenty years in a condition of halt drunken stupor without exposure or defeat at the poll; but Labor councillors receive no such indulgence. At present it the municipality has to throw economics to the winds by buying land at its real market value, and charging it to its housing schemes at its value for working class dwellings, the ratepayer making up the difference between this and the real market value.
- Subjects
LONDON (England); ENGLAND; SHAW, Bernard, 1856-1950; DRAMATISTS; CITY council members; MARKET value; LEGISLATIVE bodies; PUBLIC administration; LABOR
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1980, Vol 40, Issue 4, p317
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3110257