State and society in contemporary Britain
Subtitle: a critical introduction
By: edited by Gregor McLennan, David Held, and Stuart Hall.
Contributors: McLennan, Gregor.; Held, David.; Hall, Stuart.
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945-; Great Britain -- Economic policy.; Great Britain -- Social policy -- 1979-
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: The rise of the representative/interventionist state / Suart Hall; title: State and economy in Second World War / Laurence Harris; title: Economic intervention in the post-war economy / Grahame Thompson; title: The state and health care / Christopher Pollitt; title: "A conspiracy of silence" / Paddy Scannell; title: Science, planning, and the state / Fred Steward and David Wield; title: The family, regulation, and the public sphere / Mary McIntosh; title: The contours of British politics / Gregor McLennan; title: "Rolling back" the state? / Grahame Thompson; title: Power and legitimacy in contemporary Britain / David Held.