Author: Sidney Pollard
Publisher: Hodder Education
ISBN: 9780713165913
Category : Grande-Bretagne - Conditions sociales - 19e siècle
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Author: Jim Tomlinson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317875427
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 133

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The key aim of this new book is to show how economic decline has always been a highly politicised concept, forming a central part of post-war political argument. In doing so, Tomlinson reveals how the term has been used in such ways as to advance particular political causes.

Author: Andrew Gamble
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1349236209
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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For a hundred years, Britain's decline as a great power has gone hand in hand with the relative decline of the British economy. Andrew Gamble's much acclaimed book provides a historical account of Britain's rise and fall and a succinct introduction to the main explanations of decline and political strategies for reversing it. The fourth edition has been updated throughout and a new concluding chapter assesses the state of debate and of the British economy after the Thatcher decade.

Author: George L Bernstein
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446449491
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 736

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This history of Britain since 1945 confronts two themes that have dominated British consciousness during the post-war era: the myth of decline and the pervasiveness of American influence. The political narrative is about the struggle to maintain a power that was illusory and, from 1960 on, to reverse an economic decline that was nearly as illusory. The British economy had its problems, which are fully analyzed; however, they were counterbalanced by an unparalleled prosperity. At the same time, there was a social and cultural revolution which resulted in a more exciting, dynamic society. While there was much American influence, there was no Americanization. American influences were incorporated with many others into a new and less stodgy British culture. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this groundbreaking book finds that the story of Britain since the war is marked not by decline but by progress on almost all fronts.

Author: David Coates
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Author: Correlli Barnett
Publisher: London : Eyre Methuen Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 666

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Author: Phil Burton-Cartledge
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1839760362
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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The Fall of the Tory Party Despite winning the December 2019 General Election, the Conservative parliamentary party is a moribund organisation. It no longer speaks for, or to, the British people. Its leadership has sacrificed the long-standing commitment to the Union to 'Get Brexit Done'. And beyond this, it is an intellectual vacuum, propped up by half-baked doctrine and magical thinking. Falling Down offers an explanation for how the Tory party came to position itself on the edge of the precipice and offers a series of answers to a question seldom addressed: as the party is poised to press the self-destruct button, what kind of role and future can it have? This tipping point has been a long time coming and Burton-Cartledge offers critical analysis to this narrative. Since the era of Thatcherism, the Tories have struggled to find a popular vision for the United Kingdom. At the same time, their members have become increasingly old. Their values have not been adopted by the younger voters. The coalition between the countryside and the City interests is under pressure, and the latter is split by Brexit. The Tories are locked into a declinist spiral, and with their voters not replacing themselves the party is more dependent on a split opposition - putting into question their continued viability as the favoured vehicle of British capital.

Author: Roy Douglas
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349181943
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301

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Author: Donley T Studlar
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429979738
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 471

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This thoughtful introduction to British politics explores a country undergoing a painful transition as the twenty-first century approaches. Informed throughout by a comparative public policy perspective, it surveys British policy, institutions, and behavior since World War II.

Author: Peter A. Hall
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195205237
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Analyzing the evolution of economic policy in postwar Britain, this book develops a striking new argument about the sources of Britain's economic problems. Through an insightful, comparative examination of policy-making in Britain and France, Hall presents a new approach to state-society relations that emphasizes the crucial role of institutional structures.