Crisis and Consensus in British Politics

From Bagehot to Blair

By: M. Williams

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Hardcover | 19 September 2000 | Edition Number 1

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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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'This is an excellent history of British Politics in the twentieth century. It concentrates on the strategies politicians adopted to cope with Britain's retreat as a world and relative economic decline. It is excellent as a textbook for British politics courses, but can also be read as a lively history by the general reader.' - Paul Hirst, Professor of Social Theory, Birbeck College, University of London 'Covering developments in the British state and party politics from the Industrial Revolution right up until the present day, and focussing particularly on the breakdown and revitalisation in consensus between the 1970s and 1990s, this fascinating and innovative study is set to become a book which all students of British politics, undergraduate and postgraduate, will need to own.' - Professor Ben Pimlott, Goldsmiths College

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Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Britain in Decline: Structural Change in British Capitalism since the Industrial Revolution	p. 9
The Impact of Democracy: from Parliamentary Politics to Party Politics	p. 23
Warfare and Welfare: the Road to 1945 and the Post-War Consensus	p. 37
The Great Moving Right Show: the Mid-1970s Crisis and the Rise of Thatcherism	p. 49
Crisis on the Left: from Labourism to New Labour	p. 65
Whitehall's Managerial Revolution: Reconstructing Central Government	p. 81
Rolling Back the State: Privatisation and Deregulation	p. 101
Steering the Economy: Macro-economic Management from the Gold Standard to EMU	p. 119
Getting and Spending: Public Expenditure and Welfare	p. 135
Twilight of Ukania: Territorial Politics in Britain	p. 159
Missed Chances: Britain and the European Union	p. 173
Conclusion: Towards Managerial Society?	p. 191
References	p. 213
Index	p. 223
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