Politics in Britain : : From Labourism to Thatcherism / / Colin Leys.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Leys, Colin,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

Controversial when the first edition was published in 1983, Colin Leys’ analysis of the changing face of British politics has been confirmed by events of the late 1980s. The second edition, revised throughout, is brought up to date with substantial new material on the Thatcher era.Leys provides a solid body of information on the central topics of British politics—not only the nature of political parties or the evolution of the State, but also the organization of capital and labour, corporatism, the transformations of local democracy, the sphere of law and order, and other areas seldom discussed in more orthodox texts.The book also includes new accounts of Thatcher’s program of de-nationalization and of the changes to the Welfare State. Now more relevant than ever, Politics in Britain has yet to be surpassed as an introduction to its subject.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Revised Edition -- PART I -- 1. British Politics and Political Science -- 2. Britain in Crisis -- 3. The First Crisis -- 4. Labour and the New Political Order -- 5. The Paralysis of Social Democracy -- 6. Into the New Crisis -- 7. The New Conservative Project of Margaret Thatcher -- Part II -- 8. Capital and Labour -- 9. Social Classes and British Politics -- PART III -- 10. The Conservative Party -- 11. The Labour Party and the Left -- 12. Beyond the Two-party System -- PART IV -- 13. The British State -- 14. The State and the Economy -- 15. Consent and Social Control -- Index