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Heath and Thatcher in opposition / Eric Caines.
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Caines, Eric
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
©2017
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xiv, 314 pages ; 22 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
JN1129.C7 C35 2017
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Opposition (Political science)
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Great Britain
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Politics and government
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1964-1979
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Great Britain
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Politics and government
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1979-1997
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Conservative Party (Great Britain)
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Thatcher, Margaret
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Heath, Edward
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Summary note
This book traces how Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher, during their respective years as Conservative Opposition Leaders (1965-70 and 1975-79), managed their Party's attempts to ensure a return to government, each after two electoral defeats. They did so in the context of an emergent New Conservatism, championed by the likes of Enoch Powell, Keith Joseph and Nigel Lawson, which betokened a long-term change from the post-war Butskellite settlement. Against a national background of declining economic status, high inflation, debilitating public sector strikes and internal Conservative Party debates, particularly over industrial relations policy and monetarism, they adopted strikingly different approaches to policy-making in Opposition. The book illustrates how, paradoxically, Heath's technocratic over-prescription failed to save his eventual premiership, while Thatcher's under-committed policy design failed to impede her leading a purposeful and transformative government in the 1980s.-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-307) and index.
Contents
The nature of conservatism
Decline and fall I
Getting used to being out of office
Reasons (or excuses?) for failure
The road to Selsdon
Decline and fall II
The new conservatism
Keith Joseph's 'Third Crusade'
Internal warfare
The inflation nettle
The industrial relations nettle
Thatcher: ideologue or pragmatist?
Conclusion: Heath and Thatcher in opposition.
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ISBN
1137602457
9781137602459
OCLC
968448176
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