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Recent years have seen a great increase in books and articles with the title 'Management in Local Government' or some variant of it.In similar fashion the number of courses with this subject as a theme has also greatly increased?Underlying most of these is the belief that ideas and concepts current in general management thinking2 can and ought to be applied to local authorities.In practice, however, the subject is frequently construed as a series of questions such as 'how can the quality of elected representatives be improved?'and 'what is the ideal number of committees for an individual local authority?'.The appointment of the Maud Committee (1964-67) was part of this trend and was founded on this belief.Certainly the Committee itself appears never to have questioned the feasibility of the whole project on which it embarked, nor did it ask whether there were any specific digculties in it.Nowhere in the Report, or in the growing literature of which it is an important part, is there any attempt to characterize explicitly the intellectual foundations of the activity denoted by this phrase and on *This is a revised version of a paper originally given as a lecture to a public meeting of the South West Group of the Royal Institute of Public Administration on 27 January 1970, in Exeter.
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