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Crisis and consensus in British politics

Name: Crisis and consensus in British politics
Author: Michael Williams
ISBN: 9780312232740

by Michael Williams

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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, privatization, macro-economic management, and relations with Europe.

About the Author, Michael Williams

Michael Williams is Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy at the University of Hertfordshire.

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According to Williams (political science and public policy, U. of Hertford and De Montfort U.) failure by Labour and Conservative governments led to a crisis of confidence in the British political system by the middle 1970s. Out of the ruin rose Thatcherism, which laid the foundation for a new consensus embodied in New Labour. But this is no innovation, he says, and traces the same pattern of crisis and consensus since the Industrial Revolution before focusing on the more recent period. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)