{"id":3106,"date":"2010-12-22T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2010-12-22T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T11:59:00","slug":"council-sizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/council-sizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Council sizes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My mum was reading East Renfrewshire<\/a>‘s magazine last night and asked me why there were so few council members.<\/p>\n

I hadn’t really thought of that before, so I checked the figures: East Renfrewshire has 89,200 inhabitants and 20 council members, whereas an equivalent Danish council area (“kommune”) such as Silkeborg<\/a> has 88,481 inhabitants and 31 council members.<\/p>\n

Why is there such a big difference? Have Danish councils got more tasks than Scottish ones? Are Scottish councillors busier than their Danish counterparts?<\/p>\n

My mum also remarked that East Renfrewshire’s councillors looked remarkably old to her – is there a connexion (e.g., is there a higher workload so that it’s hard to fit in if you’re not a pensioner?), or have their ages got more to do with the fact that FPTP<\/a> was used until recently?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Silkeborg Originally uploaded by khoogheem My mum was reading East Renfrewshire‘s magazine last night and asked me why there were so few council members. I hadn’t really thought of that before, so I checked the figures: East Renfrewshire has 89,200 inhabitants and 20 council members, whereas an equivalent Danish council area (“kommune”) such as Silkeborg has 88,481 inhabitants and 31 council members. Why is there such a big difference? Have Danish councils got more tasks than Scottish ones? Are Scottish councillors busier than their Danish counterparts? My […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,159,130,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-denmark","category-en","category-politics","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}