Policy and Change in Thatcher's Britain

Policy and Change in Thatcher's Britain by Paul Cloke

Policy and Change in Thatcher's Britain presents an integrated analysis of the changing policy impacts of the Thatcher decade using various different aspects of critical social theory. The study first parallels the directions taken by successive Thatcher governments with the paths taken by critical social theorists in the 1980s. This analysis shows not only that critical social theory can inform the interpretation of Thatcherism, but also that Thatcherism made such demands on social theory as to force changes in the theoretical agenda. More detail follows in an explanation and analysis of the employment of policy-making and planning by the state apparatus. The stress here is on the necessity of looking beyond the immediate policy arena in search of how and why policy changes occur. Further essays illuminate the effects of policy changes in particular systematic or spatial areas. The concluding section comments more generally on economic and social change under Thatcher, both stressing the unevenness of development with respective emphasis on both spatial and gender divisions of labour.

The net result is that Britain in the early 1990s is a significantly more unequal society than it was ten years earlier, and indeed than it has been for several decades From the concluding chapter Allan Cochrane This is a thought-provoking book...it provides an excellent way into key debates about social and political change in the 1980s, and offers a sound foundation for the debates of the 1990s. International Journal of Urban & Regional Research A Leyshon ...excellent collection of essays compiled by Cloke...gathering together an impressive set of commentators to analyse a range of policy arenas. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design Fred Robinson, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Durham ...Each of the 14 contributors offers a well-informed guide to different aspects of Thatcher's Britain... This is certainly a useful book and—in these recessionary times—it is worth saying that it is good value for money (even 'cost-effective', as a Thatcherite might say). Urban Studies

Paul Cloke is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Exeter. He has longstanding research interests in the geographies of social marginalisation and exclusion, and in the political and ethical responses from Third Sector organisations to issues of social care and justice. His recent books include Swept Up Lives (with J May and S Johnsen; Wiley-Blackwell 2010); FBOs and Exclusion in European Cities (with J Beaumont; Policy Press 2012); and Working Faith (with J Beaumont and A Williams; Paternoster 2013).

Christopher Baker is William Temple Professor of Religion and Public Life at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he co-directs the Faiths and Civil Society Unit. His publications engage theology and religious studies with sociology, sociology of religion, human geography, planning, and policy studies. His edited volume Postsecular Cities: Space, Theory and Practice (with J. Beaumont; Continuum 2011) is a much-cited and authoritative text in this field.

Callum Sutherland is a Human Geographer based at the University of Exeter. His published work examines themes of religion, politics, and spiritual activism, with particular regard to Christian praxis and social justice.

Andrew Williams is Lecturer in Human Geography, Cardiff University, and specialises in questions of ethics, welfare, and politics. His latest books include Working Faith: Faith-Based Organisations and Urban Social Justice (with P Cloke and J Beaumont; Paternoster 2013) and Feeding Austerity? Ethical Ambiguity and Political Possibilities in UK Foodbanks (with L Cherry, P Cloke, and J May; Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming).

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ISBN 13	9780080406480
ISBN 10	0080406483
Title	Policy and Change in Thatcher's Britain
Author	Paul Cloke
Series	Policy Planning And Critical Theory
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Elsevier Science & Technology
Year published	1992-04-28
Number of pages	350
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