British Social Attitudes
Subtitle: Continuity and Change over Two Decades (British Social Attitudes Survey series)
Contributors: Alison Park (Editor); John Curtice (Editor); Katarina Thomson (Editor); Lindsey Jarvis (Editor); Catherine Bromley (Editor)
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: December 20, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780761942771
Subjects: Public opinion & polls; Sociology, Social Studies; Politics - Current Events; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; British Isles; General; Political Science / General
First sentence: When the Conservative Party came to power in 1979, they argued that excessive public expenditure was at the heart of Britain's economic difficulties and that the levels of taxation needed to finance past rates of growth in public spending had become unsustainable (Burchardt and Hills, 1999).