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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Thatcherism"”.
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Thatcherism and the restoration of governability
… attempted during her eight years in office. Thatcherism is perhaps most remarkable for guiding Britain out of the dark decades of the 1960's and 1970's when relative economic decline was the chief cause of a governmental and institutional paralysis that inevitably led to policy failures, …
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The Conservative Party and Thatcherism, 1970-1979: A grass-roots perspective
This thesis argues that ‘Thatcherism’ was consistent with the values, prejudices, and interests of the Conservative party. The threat of socialism was pervasive and underpinned by the party’s socio-economic base. The economic status of the middle class, under threat from inflation, pay controls, …
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Discursive strategies within Thatcherism: family and market representations in its rhetoric and Community Care Documents
… between the public political voice of Thatcherism and the "bureaucratic" policy voice of Community Care Documents. The similarities I am searching for between the rhetoric and the documents involve mythical representations of the family, the free market and the community. The argument …
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Preparing for Power: Margaret Thatcher as Leader of the Opposition
… this thesis will conclude that the ideology of Thatcherism is far more complex than previously thought. By exploring Thatcher’s visits abroad as Leader of the Opposition, as well as the themes of policymaking, gender and the role that chance plays in politics, this thesis will demonstrate that, …
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The television policies of the UK administrations of Margaret Thatcher and John Major 1979-1997
… administrations, generally known as `Thatcherism'. The thesis analyses the specific strengths of the UK television system established by the 1970s, and reviews the criticisms made of that system in the years before 1979. It then assesses the major developments in television policy …
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Political ideas and policy in the Labour Party, 1983-1992
… over this period. This includes the impact of Thatcherism, its policy and ideas, as well as the effect of fundamental economic and social change. However, it is the first which is most important. The history of Labour’s ideas is noticeably neglected in the literature on the period. This thesis …
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The British New Right and the Problem of Public Opinion, c.1965-1987
… notions of a unitary, consistent politics of ‘Thatcherism’.
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Freedom and the city: contemporary British fiction and the cultural politics of disenfranchisement
… on the Left during the 1980s as a response to Thatcherism. Freedom and the City shifts the terms of this debate in a new direction by using the thought of Hannah Arendt to reappraise the relationship between culture, Left politics and the British novel in the contemporary period, and to reveal …
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Margaret Thatcher. Formazione e ascesa di un leader.
… the main traits of what will get to be known as Thatcherism started to emerge well before Thatcher’s election to the role of prime minister and, therefore, how the political climax of her story had already reached its peak in 1975. By examining the crucial events which marked Thatcher personal …
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Changing narratives of minority peoples' identities in Welsh and Basque film
… and Welsh peoples, for instance the impacts of Thatcherism and in the case of the Basques, the Civil War, Franco’s regime and post Franco democracy. This threefold system of classification is used to structure the chapters of this thesis. By comparing and contrasting Welsh and Basque films, this …
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The Thatcher era: economic decline and electoral hegemony
… The performance of the government, and <i>Thatcherism</i> need to be seen in terms of their success in reversing Britain's relative economic decline. How have its policies sought to break the pattern of decline? Has it adopted a consistent, and distinctive approach? Is the party's …
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The Celebrity Scientists
… scientists in late modern Britain, shaped by Thatcherism, Blairism, commercialism, globalisation, mediatisation, public science, and conceptions of the public intellectual. The subjects share characteristics with iconic historical scientists, including Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert …
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BBC Radio 4's Anaylsis, 1970-1983
… Analysis and the emerging political ideology of Thatcherism. By focussing on one programme over a period of time, and following the careers of named individuals who worked in BBC radio, it is possible to reveal conflicting broadcasting values and ideals of professionalism and current affairs and …
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Post-War African Studies, Underdevelopment, and the French and British New Lefts, 1953-1993
… how Stuart Hall’s influential interpretation of Thatcherism is indebted theoretically to the Africanist scholarship and development literature he was engaging with in the period. Chapter 4 pursues a genealogy of Orlando Patterson’s concept of “social death”, demonstrating that its origins lie in …
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The British theatre economics and management in the 1990s as an effect of Thatcherite capitalism
… critically explore the undesirable legacy of Thatcherism on the theatre economics and management of the 1990s.To this end, it will examine several sub-subjects. Chapter I deals with the British politics and economics of the 1980s and 1990s as background for the changes which also took place in …
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Ideas, Interests, and Institutions in Ralf Dahrendorf's Materialist Liberalism
… Dahrendorf’s critique of Friedrich Hayek, Thatcherism, and constitutional economics during the 1980s. Here, it highlights a divergence between Dahrendorf’s agonistic liberalism and a new liberalism built on the assumption that the vast influence of ideas meant that politics was highly …
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Popular Investment and Speculation in Britain, 1918–1987
This doctoral thesis traces the various forms in which ordinary people engaged in the stock market across twentieth-century Britain. It asks how and why previously stigmatised forms of investment and speculation came to be regarded as socially, politically and economically desirable. I argue that …
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To the Wall: London's Murals and 'the Left', 1975-1986
… relation to wider-ranging resistances to Thatcherism’s ascent across the first half of the 1980s. Throughout, a focus on technique incorporates localised research, visual and iconographic analysis and a body of Marxist urban geography and theory to argue that the murals’ radical and …