Crisis and Consensus in British Politics: From Bagehot to Blair

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Britain in Decline: Structural Change in British Capitalism since the Industrial Revolution....Pages 9-21
The Impact of Democracy: from Parliamentary Politics to Party Politics....Pages 23-36
Warfare and Welfare: the Road to 1945 and the Post-War Consensus....Pages 37-47
The Great Moving Right Show: the Crisis of the Mid-1970s and the Rise of Thatcherism....Pages 49-64
Crisis on the Left: from Labourism to New Labour....Pages 65-79
Whitehall’s Managerial Revolution: Reconstructing Central Government....Pages 81-100
Rolling Back the State: Privatisation and Deregulation....Pages 101-117
Steering the Economy: Macro-economic Management from the Gold Standard to EMU....Pages 119-134
Getting and Spending: Public Expenditure and Welfare....Pages 135-158
Twilight of Ukania: Territorial Politics in Britain....Pages 159-171
Missed Chances: Britain and the European Union....Pages 173-190
Conclusion: Towards Managerial Society?....Pages 191-211
Back Matter....Pages 213-223