Showing papers on "White paper published in 1980"

Activities 1940-1944 : shaping the post-war world : the clearing union

Abstract: 1. The origins of the Clearing Union, 1940-1942 2. From Cabinet agreement to White Paper, 1942-1943 3. From White Paper to Joint Statement, April 1943.

Rationalizing the Machinery of Government: The Conservatives, 1970–1974:

Abstract: The White Paper The Reorganization of Central Government (Cmnd 4506) not merely announced extensive changes in the organizational structure of Whitehall, it did so in unusually ambitious and philosophically explicit terms. This paper traces the origins of the policies announced in the white paper, identifies the main groups and individuals involved, and shows how some elements were more successfully implemented than others. The concluding analysis seeks to penetrate behind the functional-rationalist vocabulary of Cmnd 4506 and identify an underlying set of choice criteria and decision procedures which permit a fuller explanation of the events of 1970—4.

The relationship between transport and the viability of central and inner urban areas

Abstract: The problems of the inner city since the last war have arisen from the policy of decentralisation and increasing mobility. The government has recognised the problem and issued a white paper, and an act of parliament has been passed to initiate measures to help the worst areas. This paper examines in detail the relationship between transport and the inner city, and recent changes in the city of Leeds. A computer model is used to examine the impact of the types of transport policies being advocated, and probable increases in transport costs over the next decade. (Author/TRRL)

Constitutional Reform Canadian-Style: An Economic Perspective

Abstract: This paper was initially to have been a comparative evaluation of the constitutional proposals of the Levesque government (1979) and those of the Quebec Liberal Party (1980). The outcome of the Quebec referendum, however, has altered the constitutional choice issue significantly. It now seems quite certain that Sovereignty-Association of the type outlined in the White Paper, as distinct from the independence movement, is a dead issue. There was nearly unanimous rejection of it by all other political leaders even before May 20th, and the PQ is certain to alter its position somewhat in the event of a second referendum. Thus it seems meaningless to spend time debating the merits of this specific document. The emphasis has shifted instead to 'renewed federalism.' The fervour with which the federalist cause was fought in Quebec is now being directed towards constitutional reform for the country as a whole. We have, we are told, about one year in which to make good on the promise that a 'non' vote was not a ratification of the status quo, and to mollify growing alienation in the West and elsewhere. To those who have studied the decades of frustration in this area, the prospects for change now must seem tantalizingly near. The process of constitutional change and the direction it is almost certain to take are already distressingly clear. The Prime Minister and the ten Premiers are to be the principal actors, and the stage will be a series of closed, high-level, federal-provincial sessions beginning in July and leading up to a meeting of the First Ministers in September. The immediate goal will be to make the appropriate constitutional changes to. accommodate the nationalist aspirations found even among federalist Quebecois, and to do so before the very lack of evident progress can be used as an issue in the next Quebec election. This is understood to mean a more decentralized form of government for the country with decentralization taking the form of increased spending, taxation and regulatory powers for each of the provincial governments at the expense of Ottawa. The only unknowns, it appears, are which of the first ministers will be willing to reduce what portions of their demands in the interests of reaching an overall agreement. Apart from the stature of the participants and the degree of attention it is likely