pp 148 1989 paperback
ISBN 0-7083-1053-2
' . . . the essays consistently achieve a high standard of succinct and rational analysis and coherence. The particular merits of this closely defined collection lie in the presentation of of hard "number-crunching" data and evidence to substantiate each individual thesis.' (Planet)
This collection of essays marked the tenth anniversary of the birth of a radically new form of Conservative government. Thatcher's Law scrutinizes the use made by the Thatcher Government of law and legal ideology in relations between central and local government, economic privatization, education, community care, social security, housing and criminal justice.
In his introductory essay, Andrew Gamble highlights the paradoxes presented by a government wishing both to roll back and to roll forward the state in the name of political progress. The flag of privatization has been waved over large areas of government activity . This book subjects the flag-waving to critical examination.
Andrew Gamble is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield. His publications include: Britain in Decline(1981), Introduction to Social and Political Thought (1981) and The Free Economy and the Strong State (1988) .
Celia Wells lectures at Cardiff Law School. She has published in several leading law journals and is co-editor of the Casebook on Criminal Law (1982).
Contents
Privatization, Thatcherism, and the British State Andrew Gamble
Law, Ideologies, and the Political-Administrative System Martin Loughlin
Lessons of Thatcherism: Education Policy in England and Wales 1979-88 Geoff Whitty
and Ian Menter
Housing Tales of Law and Space Ann Stewart and Roger Burridge
'It All Really Starts in the Family. . . ': Community Care in the 1980s Jane Lewis
‘A Better Partnership between State and Individual Provision’: Social Security
into the 1990s Pete Alcock
'Consensual Authoritarianism' and Criminal Justice in Thatcher's Britain Alan Norrie
and Sammy Adelman
The Privatization of Industry in Historical Perspective James Foreman-Peck