Download or read book Politics and Consensus in Modern Britain written by W. John Morgan and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-04-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Death of Consensus written by Phil Tinline and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over Britain’s first century of mass democracy, politics has lurched from crisis to crisis. How does this history of political agony illuminate our current age of upheaval? To find out, journalist Phil Tinline takes us back to two past eras when the ruling consensus broke down, and the future filled with ominous possibilities – until, finally, a new settlement was born. How did the Great Depression’s spectres of fascism, bombing and mass unemployment force politicians to think the unthinkable, and pave the way to post-war Britain? How was Thatcher’s road to victory made possible by a decade of nightmares: of hyperinflation, military coups and communist dictatorship? And why, since the Crash in 2008, have new political threats and divisions forced us to change course once again? Tinline brings to life those times, past and present, when the great compromise holding democracy together has come apart; when the political class has been forced to make a choice of nightmares. This lively, original account of panic and chaos reveals how apparent catastrophes can clear the path to a new era. The Death of Consensus will make you see British democracy differently.
Download or read book Politics and Consensus in Modern Britain written by Hugh Gaitskell and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Myth of Consensus written by Harriet Jones and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-11-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking collection of essays challenges the notion that early postwar Britain was characterised by a consensus between the major political parties arising out of the experiences of the wartime coalition government. The volume collects for the first time the views of the revisionist historians who argue that fundamental differences between and within the parties continued to characterise British politics after 1945. Covering topics as diverse as industrial relations and decolonisation, the volume provides a welcome contrast to orthodox interpretations of contemporary Britain.
Download or read book Consensus Politics from Attlee to Thatcher written by Dennis Kavanagh and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Politics Since 1945 written by David Dutton and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Consensus Politics written by Dennis Kavanagh and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1994-07-19 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Thatcher's departure from office and the arrival of her successor, John Major, have had a profound impact on the way Britain is governed - and in this new edition of Consensus Politics, the authors examines the legacy of Thatcherite "conviction politics" and assesses the state of consensus in Britain's government today. This chronicle of the rise and fall of the post-war consensus in five key policy areas - the mixed economy, full employment, trade unions, welfare and foreign policy - remains a superb introduction to one of the major debates of recent political history.
Download or read book The State or the Market written by Martin Loney and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1991-10-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection deals with the central questions which have emerged from the break-up of the postwar political consensus around the welfare state. A series of distinguished contributors, including exponents of alternative positions on welfare from the right, left and centre, examine key issues in the disputes over the relationship between the state and welfare. Individual chapters both explore the different political and theoretical issues in the debate, and concentrate on their application in key areas of social policy. Particular attention is given to the role of social work, and public policy and the family. The final section of the book examines the political sources of the current crisis of social policy, and th
Download or read book The post war consensus and its meaning for our understanding of British politics written by Andreas Michaelis and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Other States, grade: 1,3, University of Warwick, language: English, abstract: After the Second World War a supposed “consensus” developed throughout British politics. In February 1954, ‘The Economist’ invented a new word - “Butskellism”. The magazine thought that the policies of the Exchequer of the day, the Conservative R.A. Butler, were so similar to those of his Labour predecessor, Hugh Gaitskell, that they had been devised by a “Mr. Butskell” (Boxer 2010,38). This statement shows that even the people at the time thought of a consensus in British politics. [...]
Download or read book The Myth of Consensus written by Harriet Jones and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking collection of essays challenges the notion that early postwar Britain was characterised by a consensus between the major political parties arising out of the experiences of the wartime coalition government. The volume collects for the first time the views of the revisionist historians who argue that fundamental differences between and within the parties continued to characterise British politics after 1945. Covering topics as diverse as industrial relations and decolonisation, the volume provides a welcome contrast to orthodox interpretations of contemporary Britain.
Download or read book Policy and Politics in Britain written by Douglas Elliott Ashford and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the seriesPolicy and Politics in Industrial Statesexamines British effectiveness in planning and implementing government programs. In the British system, parliamentary supremacy rests on the widely accepted elite consensus that took shape a century or more before the British democracy took over the broad responsibilities associated with the modern welfare state. Modern political parties, mass democracy, even a modern administration, were grafted onto a working system, but the essential principles of cabinet and ministry responsibilities have survived with relatively little modification. The result has been a concentration of power at the top, while demands on government have proliferated.Ashford analyzes six policy areas-administrative reform, economic policymaking, industrial relations, local and regional policies, social security (social welfare in Britain), race and immigration-to see how political constraints like these operate in a time of immensely complex government. Two cases (administrative reform and economic policy) deal with restructuring government; two deal with important social issues (social security and race relations). Each case analysis is accompanied by selected readings from official government documents and the writings of the critics of official policy.The analysis offers a strong point of view, unusual in a textbook, that is sure to invite scholarly debate. For example, it argues that although power is quite concentrated in the British system, it is exercised most often in the direction of avoiding decisions. More often than not, the grand adversarial politics played out in parliament are ineffective in dealing with the complexities of the modern welfare state. In practice, when major changes in policy are at issue, labour and conservatives may act less like true antagonists and more like two groups sharing a consensus. Author note: Douglas E. Ashford is Director, Western Studies Program, Cornell University.
Download or read book Thatcherism and British Politics written by Dennis Kavanagh and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Thatcher is the only 20th-century prime minister to have given her name to a style as well as a doctrine. Although the final balance sheet of the successes and failures of Thatcherism is yet to be tallied, this book places the government of Mrs. Thatcher in the perspective of postwar British politics. Here, Kavanagh describes how a postwar political consensus--covering full employment, welfare, conciliation of the trade unions, a mixed economy with state intervention, and social engineering--was established with the support of dominant groups in the Conservative and Labour parties. He then shows how that settlement broke down in the face of economic problems, changes in policies and personnel in the main parties, and the challenge to the intellectual bases of the consensus mounted by groups on the New Right. The book concludes with an insightful analysis of the government's record, and of prospects for a new consensus. Mrs. Thatcher has cited the breaking of the consensus as one of her primary political objectives, and in this penetrating study she emerges both as the architect of the collapse of consensus and as its product.
Download or read book Postwar British Politics written by Peter Kerr and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers a fresh view of postwar British politics, challenging the dominant view in contemporary scholarship. The author argues that politics up until the Blair government can be largely characterized in terms of continuity and a gradual evolution.
Download or read book Ideas and Politics in Modern Britain written by J. C. D. Clark and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1990-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the ideas and politics of modern Britain. It looks at the role and relations of the state and the community it both governs and serves. Topics covered range from the collapse of corporate state Keynesianism, to government investment in universities and science.
Download or read book British Politics Since 1945 written by David Dutton and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1997-05-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a concise survey of British politics in the postwar era. Now expanded in a new edition, the author extends his exploration of the theme of "consensus" through to the present day, and provides updated further reading.
Download or read book Political and religious practice in the early modern British world written by William J. Bulman and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together cutting-edge research by some of the most innovative scholars of early modern Britain. Inspired in part by recent studies of the early modern ‘public sphere’, the twelve chapters collected here reveal an array of political and religious practices that can serve as a foundation for new narratives of the period. The practices considered range from deliberation and inscription to publication and profanity. The narratives under construction range from secularisation to the rise of majority rule. Many of the authors also examine ways British developments were affected by and in turn influenced the world outside of Britain. These chapter will be essential reading for students of early modern Britain, early modern Europe and the Atlantic World. They will also appeal to those interested in the religious and political history of other regions and periods.
Download or read book Crisis and Consensus in British Politics written by Michael Williams and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Michael Williams charts this movement between crisis and consensus since the beginning of modern party politics and the onset of relative economic decline in the late nineteenth century. It illustrates the emergence of the new consensus through studies of six key policy areas including the reconstruction of the central state machine, the privatisation of large parts of the public sector, the rise and fall of monetarism and Britain's troubled relation with its European partners."--Jacket.
