Heath and Thatcher in opposition [electronic resource] / Eric Caines.
Caines, Eric.
2017
JN231 .C35 2017eb
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Title Heath and Thatcher in opposition [electronic resource] / Eric Caines.
Author Caines, Eric.
ISBN 9781137602466 (electronic book)
1137602465 (electronic book)
1137602457
9781137602459
Imprint [S.l.] : PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Call Number JN231 .C35 2017eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.941
Summary 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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Heath and Thatcher in Opposition; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Nature of Conservatism; Notes; 2 Decline and Fall I; Notes; 3 Getting Used to Being Out of Office; The Policy Study Groups; Notes; 4 Reasons (or Excuses?) for Failure; Notes; 5 The Road to Selsdon; Notes; 6 Decline and Fall II; Notes; 7 The New Conservatism; Notes; 8 Keith Joseph's 'Third Crusade'; Notes; 9 Internal Warfare; Notes; 10 The Inflation Nettle; Notes; 11 The Industrial Relations Nettle; Notes; 12 Thatcher
Ideologue or Pragmatist?; Part I; Part II; Part III; Notes

13 Conclusion
Heath and Thatcher in Opposition'Selsdon Man' and 'Thatcherism'; Management Style and Image; Internal Party Opposition and the Party at Large; Preparedness; Closing Thoughts; Notes; Bibliography; I: Primary Sources; Archive Material; Memoirs; Official Papers, Party Manifestos, Party Policy Statements and Pamphlets; II: Secondary Sources; Books; Articles, Essays and Lectures; Index

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