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About this book
This volume looks at the changes in British politics and government since the accession of Mrs Thatcher in 1979, and in particular at the 1990s. Its aim is to explore some of these changes and to emphasize the recurring paradoxes in political developments.
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Index
abortion 189
administrative discretion 158
Aitken, Jonathan 57
Alternative Economic Strategy 83, 87
alternative vote (AV) 23–4
Ancram, Michael 187
anti-Maastricht scale 46–7, 61
applications, judicial review 151
arms for Iraq affair 154
Ashby, David 41
Ashdown, Paddy 208, 209, 212
authoritarianism 108–9
authority, hostility to 9–10
backbenchers
background variables 49–52
dissent 40
Early Day Motions see Early Day Motions (EDMs)
floor revolts 60–4
generational cleavage 50–2, 58, 59–60, 64–5
independence 15, 16
power 31
Bagehot, Walter 4
Baker, Kenneth 65
Baldwin, Stanley 7
ballots, party members 37
Bank of England, independence 85
Battle, John 130
Beckett, Margaret 133
Benn, Ernest 10
Benn, Tony 10
Berrington, Hugh 1, 5, 44
Bevins, Reginald 64
Bevir, Mark 9, 12, 13, 97
Biffen, John 61
Biggs-Davison, John 56
bill of rights 15, 18
Blair, Tony 3, 23, 29, 33, 37, 78, 81, 85, 86, 89, 149, 168, 171, 188, 189, 208–9, 212
block vote, trade unions 37
Bradlaugh, Charles 10
Britain
decline 103–4
dilemmas of government 111–14
identification with 191–3
periphery 19–20
sovereignty 5–6, 11
British Energy 124
British Gas 122, 130, 131, 135, 136
British Telecommunications...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Britain in the Nineties: The Politics of Paradox
- Power in the Parties: R.T. McKenzie and after
- Europe, Thatcherism and Traditionalism: Opinion, Rebellion and the Maastricht Treaty in the Backbench Conservative Party, 1992–1994
- From Hostility to ‘Constructive Engagement’: The Europeanisation of the Labour Party
- Narratives of ‘Thatcherism’
- Institutions, Regulation and Change: New Regulatory Agencies in British Privatised Utilities
- The Judicial Dimension in British Politics
- The Periphery and its Paradoxes
- The British Electorate in the 1990s
- Abstracts
- About the Contributors
- Index