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Sacred cows and common sense : the symbolic statecraft and political culture of the British Labour Party

Title: Sacred cows and common sense : the symbolic statecraft and political culture of the British Labour Party / Tim Bale.
Author: Bale, Tim, 1965-
Publication: Aldershot, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, ©1999.

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Description

ix, 276 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Based on interviews and research from previously unavailable party, state and private archives, this volume reflects on the interaction between institutional structure and world-view that we call political culture." "The well-documented research leads to the conclusion that New Labour's much-heralded desire to 'think the unthinkable' about welfare is largely rhetorical if one recalls what Labour did in office rather than promised in opposition. The Government's welfare reforms, rather than constituting a serious attempt to confront new social realities, are in fact par for the course."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Note

Author works at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-272) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Of frying pans and fires, 1967 -- 3. Welfare as weapon -- the symbolic politics of NHS charges, 1951-64 -- 4. A two-edged sword -- the symbolic politics of NHS charges, 1964-7 -- 5. 'The ritual slaughter of a sacred cow' -- 6. The pseudo-event spins out of control -- 7. The politics of power and the politics of support -- 8. Conclusion.

ISBN

1840147695
9781840147698

LCCN

99073395

OCLC

ocm41581209
41581209
SCSB-962146

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Princeton University Library