Three decades after the election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister, it is perhaps time to take stock of the concept of 'Thatcherism' and the prominent role it has played in the history of post-war Britain. Of course, there is much debate about what Thatcherism actually was or is. Some commentators argue that Thatcherism was more noteworthy for its rhetoric than for its achievements. The welfare state, for example, emerged little changed after eleven years of Thatcherism. Some historians additionally suggest that other social forces that existed prior to Thatcher will outlast her. Yet, whichever way one looks at it, the Thatcherite project of the 1980s brought about a fundamental reorganisation of much of the UK's social and economic life. Did Thatcherite policies dramatically alter the trajectory of the country's development? Can even long-term and seemingly enduring path dependencies be altered as dramatically as claimed?. Ought Thatcher's period in office be seen as a 'critical juncture' for the UK? This book brings together a range of experts in housing, economics, law and order, education, welfare, families, geography and politics to discuss the enduring legacy of those social and economic policies initiated by the first of the UK's New Right governments (1979-1990).

The Legacy of Thatcherism: Assessing and Exploring Thatcherite Social and Economic Policies (British Academy Original Paperbacks)

Business & Money

Hay, Colin

Farrall, Stephen

Economics

British Academy

New Directions in Political Science: Responding to the Challenges of an Interdependent World

Written by a team of leading scholars, this new text focuses on a range of key challenges posed by developments in 21st century politics to provide a state-of-the-art assessment of current thinking and future directions in Political Science and International Relations.

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Red Globe Press

Written by a team of leading scholars, this new text focuses on a range of key challenges posed by developments in twenty-first century politics to provide a state-of-the-art assessment of current thinking and future directions in political science and international relations.

Political Analysis provides an accessible and engaging yet original introduction and distinctive contribution, to the analysis of political structures, institutions, ideas and behaviours, and above all, to the political processes through which they are constantly made and remade. Following an innovative introduction to the main approaches and concepts in political analysis, the text focuses thematically on the key issues which currently concern and divide political analysts, including the boundaries of the political; the question of structure, agency and power; the dynamics of political change; the relative significance of ideas and material factors; and the challenge posed by postmodernism which the author argues the discipline can strengthen itself by addressing without allowing it to become a recipe for paralysis.

Political Analysis: Contemporary Controversies (Political Analysis, 48)

Following an innovative introduction to the main approaches and concepts in political analysis, the text focuses thematically on the key issues which currently concern and divide political analysts, including the boundaries of the political; the question of structure, agency and power; the dynamics of political change; the relative significance of ideas and material factors; and the challenge posed by postmodernism which the author argues the discipline can strengthen itself by addressing without allowing it to become a recipe for paralysis.

Political Analysis: A Critical Introduction (Political Analysis, 16)

"Re-Stating Social and Political Change" provides a critical introduction to the social, political and cultural changes that have occurred in Britain since the war, and argues that these changes can best be understood in terms of a theory of the state. "Re-Stating Social and Political Change" reviews and assesses the major theories of the state that have sought to diagnose and explain the trajectories of western societies. It provides a powerful case for the study of the state, and demonstrates how state theory can shed new light on war, social change, the extension of citizenship, the emergence of a patriarchal welfare state, the crisis of the state and the rise and demise of Thatcherism. Its features: focuses on 'real' examples from post-war British society; makes considerable use of figures, tables and diagrams; each chapter is structured around a key set of questions and issues; and gives a genuinely introductory critical account of existing theories. Colin Hay has written a broad introduction to this pressing topic, which presents a new and distinctive argument about the role of the state in our understanding of social and political change. He also examines the impact of Thatcherism on the state, the possibility of a post-Thatcherism settlement and the role of the current Labour Party, and assesses the prognosis for the future. "Re-Stating Social and Political Change" will be important reading for students of sociology, social and political theory, politics, social policy and women's studies.

Re-Stating Social and Political Change (Sociology and Social Change)

Social Sciences

Open Univ Pr

Hay (political science, U. of Birmingham) provides a critical introduction to the social, political, and cultural changes in Britain since World War II, and argues that they can be understood in terms of a theory of the state. He reviews and assesses the major theories of the state, and demonstrates how they can throw new light on such aspects as war, social change, the extension of citizenship, the emergence of a patriarchal welfare state, and the rise and demise of Thatcherism. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Re-Stating Social and Political Change

What is modernity? Do we all experience modernity in the same way? How should we understand contemporary social change? This volume explores questions of modernity through critical engagements with the work of Anthony Giddens, focusing in particular on the relationships between his social theory and political sociology. Three substantive areas - reflexivity, environment and identity - are examined theoretically through the relationships between reflexivity and rationality, life politics and institutional power, and universalism and 'difference'.As well as specifically addressing Giddens' reconstruction of sociology, the contributors also explore a wide variety of critical issues currently occupying centre stage in social theory. These include questions about the character of contemporary societies, the periodisation of social change, the processes of change by which societies are constantly made and remade by people, the relationships between the 'social' and the 'natural', the formation and maintenance of identities and matters of epistemology and methodology in social science.Theorising Modernity will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of sociology, modern political thought, social geography and social policy and to social scientists trying to make sense of the modernity debate.Martin O'Brien is Research at the University of Derby. Sue Penna is a Lecturer in Applied Social Science at Lancaster University. Colin Hay is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham (UK), a Visiting Fellow of the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US) and Research Affiliate of the Centre for European Studies at Harvard University (US).

Theorising Modernity

O′Brien, Martin

Penna, Sue

Religion & Spirituality

Routledge

The Political Economy of New Labour provides one of the first systematic assessments and accessible evaluations of the modernization of the British Labour Party in the light of its landslide electoral victory in 1997. It also represents a rare attempt to locate Labour’s modernization in terms of the distinctive political economy of contemporary British capitalism and the impact of globalization, the evolution and transformation of the British State in the post-war period, the legacy of Thatcherism, and the specifics of electoral strategy and competition in contemporary Britain. In doing so, it provides a genuinely interdisciplinary account and analysis of Labour’s modernization and the strategic terrain within which this has been played out, as well as an assessment of the strategic alternatives available to a New Labour administration in an era of globalization, and an evaluation of the prospects for a decisive break with the Thatcher-Major legacy.

The political economy of New Labour

Manchester University Press

Postwar British Politics in Perspective

This broad-ranging and original text provides an accessible introduction to British politics since 1945, challenging many well-established orthodoxies.

History

Watson, Matthew

Marsh, David

Johnston, Jim

Kerr, Peter

McAnulla, Stuart

Buller, Jim

Europe

Polity

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The Legacy of Thatcherism: Assessing and Exploring Thatcherite Social and Economic Policies (British Academy Original Paperbacks)

New Directions in Political Science: Responding to the Challenges of an Interdependent World

New Directions in Political Science: Responding to the Challenges of an Interdependent World

Political Analysis: Contemporary Controversies (Political Analysis, 48)

Political Analysis: A Critical Introduction (Political Analysis, 16)

Re-Stating Social and Political Change (Sociology and Social Change)

Re-Stating Social and Political Change

Theorising Modernity

The political economy of New Labour

Postwar British Politics in Perspective