Crisis and consensus in British politics
Subtitle: from Bagehot to Blair
By: Michael Williams.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Bagehot, Walter, 1826-1877.; Blair, Tony, 1953-; Capitalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.; Capitalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.; Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century.; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1837-1901.
Description: "Modernisation has been the keynote of British politics since the early 1960s. Failure by Labour and Conservative governments led to a crisis of confidence in the British political system by the mid-1970s. From this crisis emerged Thatcherism which laid the foundation for a new consensus embodied in New Labour."

"Michael Williams charts this movement between crisis and consensus since the beginning of modern party politics and the onset of relative economic decline in the late nineteenth century. It illustrates the emergence of the new consensus through studies of six key policy areas including the reconstruction of the central state machine, the privatisation of large parts of the public sector, the rise and fall of monetarism and Britain's troubled relation with its European partners."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-222)  and index.