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Crisis and Consensus in British Politics

From Bagehot to Blair

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  • © 2000

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Authors:
  1. Michael Williams

    1. University of Hertfordshire, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Michael Williams
    Pages 1-8

  3. Britain in Decline: Structural Change in British Capitalism since the Industrial Revolution

    • Michael Williams
    Pages 9-21

  4. The Impact of Democracy: from Parliamentary Politics to Party Politics

    • Michael Williams
    Pages 23-36

  5. Warfare and Welfare: the Road to 1945 and the Post-War Consensus

    • Michael Williams
    Pages 37-47

  6. The Great Moving Right Show: the Crisis of the Mid-1970s and the Rise of Thatcherism

    • Michael Williams
    Pages 49-64

  7. Crisis on the Left: from Labourism to New Labour

    • Michael Williams
    Pages 65-79

  8. Whitehall’s Managerial Revolution: Reconstructing Central Government

    • Michael Williams
    Pages 81-100

  9. Rolling Back the State: Privatisation and Deregulation

    • Michael Williams
    Pages 101-117

  10. Steering the Economy: Macro-economic Management from the Gold Standard to EMU

    • Michael Williams
    Pages 119-134

  11. Getting and Spending: Public Expenditure and Welfare

    • Michael Williams
    Pages 135-158

  12. Twilight of Ukania: Territorial Politics in Britain

    • Michael Williams
    Pages 159-171

  13. Missed Chances: Britain and the European Union

    • Michael Williams
    Pages 173-190

  14. Conclusion: Towards Managerial Society?

    • Michael Williams
    Pages 191-211

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 213-223
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Crisis and Consensus in British Politics focuses on the collapse of the post-war consensus in the mid 1970s crisis and the emergence of a new consensus in the 1990s. It follows this process through six key policy areas including civil service reform, privatisation, macro-economic management and relations with Europe. It is designed for students following courses in modern history, politics and public policy as well as general readers with an interest in current affairs.

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  • University of Hertfordshire, UK

    Michael Williams

About the author

MICHAEL WILLIAMS has lectured in Politics and Public Policy at the University of Hertfordshire and other institutions including De Montfort University since 1995. Before then he spent twenty years as a civil servant in what is now the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. He has published papers on privatisation and the role of management consultants in shaping public policy. Most recently he helped to edit a collection of essays on the political legacy of the 1960s entitled New Left, New Right and Beyond (1999), to which he contributed an essay on Eric Hobsbawm and Robert Skidelsky as historians and political intellectuals.

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