Heath and Thatcher in Opposition

Eric Caines (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

314 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-60245-9 (ISBN)

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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 i

n the 1980s.

Eric Caines was a career civil servant who served at senior levels in Whitehall, UK, and at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC. He has written prolifically on management matters and is an expert on industrial relations, particularly as they interface with politics.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The nature of Conservatism.- Chapter 3: Decline and Fall I.- Chapter 4: Getting used to being out of office.- Chapter 5: Reasons (or excuses?) for failure.- Chapter 6: The road to Selsdon.- Chapter 7: Decline and Fall II.- Chapter 8: Decline and Fall II.- Chapter 9: Keith Joseph’s ‘Third Crusade’.- Chapter 10: Internal warfare.- Chapter 11: The inflation nettle.- Chapter 12: The industrial relations nettle.- Chapter 13: Thatcher – ideologue or pragmatist?.- Chapter 14: Conclusion – Heath and Thatcher in Opposition.- Bibliography.- Index.

“The book can perhaps best be seen as a study of the adaptations of British Conservatism during the period seen by many as corresponding to the breakdown of the post-war settlement. … One of the most prominent dimensions of this book is that it places Thatcher back into a context which her long period in office and iron lady image have subsequently obscured.” (Trevor Harris, cercles.com, December, 2017)

Erscheinungsdatum	01.08.2017
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 314 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
Schlagworte	Britain • British politics • conservatives • female prime minister • Margaret Thatcher • Ted Heath • Twentieth century
ISBN-10	1-137-60245-7 / 1137602457
ISBN-13	978-1-137-60245-9 / 9781137602459
Zustand	Neuware