Crisis and Consensus in British Politics by M Williams

Crisis and Consensus in British Politics by M Williams

Crisis and Consensus in British Politics focuses on the collapse of the post-war consensus in the mid 1970s crisis and the emergence of a new consensus in the 1990s. It follows this process through six key policy areas including civil service reform, privatisation, macro-economic management and relations with Europe. It is designed for students following courses in modern history, politics and public policy as well as general readers with an interest in current affairs.

'This is an excellent history of British Politics in the twentieth centuryIt concentrates on the strategies politicians adopted to cope with Britain's retreat as a world and relative economic decline. It is excellent as a textbook for British politics courses, but can also be read as a lively history by the general reader.' - Paul Hirst, Professor of Social Theory, Birbeck College, University of London 'Covering developments in the British state and party politics from the Industrial Revolution right up until the present day, and focussing particularly on the breakdown and revitalisation in consensus between the 1970s and 1990s, this fascinating and innovative study is set to become a book which all students of British politics, undergraduate and postgraduate, will need to own.' - Professor Ben Pimlott, Goldsmiths College

MICHAEL WILLIAMS has lectured in Politics and Public Policy at the University of Hertfordshire and other institutions including De Montfort University since 1995. Before then he spent twenty years as a civil servant in what is now the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. He has published papers on privatisation and the role of management consultants in shaping public policy. Most recently he helped to edit a collection of essays on the political legacy of the 1960s entitled New Left, New Right and Beyond (1999), to which he contributed an essay on Eric Hobsbawm and Robert Skidelsky as historians and political intellectuals.

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ISBN 13	9780333775714
ISBN 10	0333775716
Title	Crisis and Consensus in British Politics
Author	M Williams
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Year published	2000-09-19
Number of pages	231
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