TGP reading update 5
Happened to pick up the 1984 issue of the Political Quarterly and there are a number of papers of interest:
On the Falklands, a useful post-general election perspective:
Christie, C. (1984) ‘The British left and the Falklands war’, Political Quarterly, 55 (3), pp. 288-307.
In the same issue, an early discussion of the appeal of social market ideas […]
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Happened to pick up the 1984 issue of the Political Quarterly and there are a number of papers of interest:
On the Falklands, a useful post-general election perspective:
Christie, C. (1984) ‘The British left and the Falklands war’, Political Quarterly, 55 (3), pp. 288-307.
In the same issue, an early discussion of the appeal of social market ideas for the non-socialist left:
Bosanquet, N. (1984) ‘The “social market economy”: principles behind the policies?’, Political Quarterly, 55 (3), pp. 244-55.
On the winter of discontent, and from the perspective of a former Callaghan Cabinet minister and one of the gang of four :
Rodgers, W. (1984) ‘Government under stress: Britain’s winter of discontent, 1979’, Political Quarterly, 55 (2), pp. 171-9.
On privatisation, an early assessment by Sam Brittan:
Brittan, S. (1984) ‘The politics and economics of privatisation’, Political Quarterly, 55 (2), pp. 109-28.
On the first Thatcher government, and building upon his earlier IFS lecture (Hoskyns 1982), some more thoughts by this former policy insider on how to achieve lasting economic policy reform:
Hoskyns, J. (1984) ‘Conservatism is not enough’, Political Quarterly, 55 (1), pp. 3-16.
see also:
Hoskyns, J. (1982) ‘Whitehall and Westminster: an outsider’s view’, Fiscal Studies, 3 (3), pp. 162-72.
and his:
Hoskyns, J. (2000) Just in time: inside the Thatcher revolution. London: Aurum Press.
Finally, on the 1983 election, essential reading:
Miller, W.L. (1984) ‘There was no alternative: the British general election of 1983’, Strathclyde Papers on Government and Politics, 19.
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