Titlebook: Crisis and Consensus in British Politics; From Bagehot to Blai Michael Williams Book 2000 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publi

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,Whitehall’s Managerial Revolution: Reconstructing Central Government,s. Chapter 4 described how the post-war consensus entered crisis in the mid-1970s under the impact of persistent economic and political failure. The rest of the book follows this process through six main policy areas, beginning with the central state machine.

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Twilight of Ukania: Territorial Politics in Britain,ative economic decline in so far as that decline eventually posed challenges to the British state and the British national identity that had emerged during the eighteenth century – the first from within that state and the second from an emerging supranational formation from which Britain found that

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Introduction, chains. And look at us now’ (cited British Broadcasting Corporation, 1991). The words were Margaret Thatcher’s, delivered in heart-felt tone in a party political broadcast in 1979. But much the same could have been said by almost any British politician since the early 1960s. Tony Benn, for example,

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Warfare and Welfare: the Road to 1945 and the Post-War Consensus, which coincided almost exactly with the onset of Britain’s relative economic decline. The gradual extension of the franchise was an essentially conservative process – the vote was given only when the new voters had shown that they could be trusted not to vote for radical change. It was, in effect,