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Governing post-war Britain = the paradoxes of progress, 1951-1973 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Governing post-war Britain/ Glen O'Hara.
Reminder of title:	the paradoxes of progress, 1951-1973 /
Author:	O'Hara, Glen,
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan, : 2012.,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Education and state - History - 20th century. - Great Britain -
Subject:	Great Britain - Politics and government - 1997- -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230361270
ISBN:	9780230361270 (electronic bk.)

Governing post-war Britain = the paradoxes of progress, 1951-1973 /
O'Hara, Glen,1974-

Governing post-war Britainthe paradoxes of progress, 1951-1973 /[electronic resource] :Glen O'Hara. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2012. - 1 online resource.

Acknowledgements -- List of Charts and Tables -- Introduction: Progress and its Paradoxes -- PART I: IDEAS FROM 'THE OUTSIDE' -- The Use and Abuse of Foreign Archetypes in British Economic Policy -- Archetype, Example or Warning? British Views of Scandinavia -- PART II: SLIDING AWAY FROM STABILITY -- President Kennedy, Prime Minister Macmillan and the Gold Market, 1961-63 -- President Johnson, Prime Minister Wilson and the Slow Collapse of Equilibrium, 1964-68 -- PART III: GOVERNING BRITAIN -- The Creation and Early Work of the Parliamentary 'Ombudsman' -- Sir Alec Cairncross and the Art and Craft of Economic Advice, 1961-69 -- 'An All Over Expansion': The Politics of the Land in 'Golden Age' Britain -- PART IV: EDUCATING THE NATION -- Planning the Education System in the Post-War Era -- Slum Schools, Civil Servants and Sociology: Educational Priority Areas, 1967-72 -- Conclusion: Strange Triumphs? -- Bibliography -- Index.

Glen O'Hara looks at modern British politicsfrom 'top' to 'bottom' b6 s from Prime Ministers' relationship with US Presidents and the Cabinet room, to individual neighbourhoods and schools. In doing so, he fuses the new political history of the everyday and the humdrum with high political accounts involving economic and social advisers, top politicians and senior civil servants. Post-war Britain emerges as a country that experienced increasingly tense relations between governors and the governed. The electorate demanded ever wider access to fairly-provided and universally-available social services; elites looked to other European and American countries for how this search for quality might be mounted. However, new solutions became ever more complex, and increasingly likely to conflict with one another or involve unintended additional effects. Drawing on new archival findings from across the United Kingdom, among personal and political papers as much as the files of national and international governance, O'Hara uses the new economics of organization, management and complexity to draw a compelling picture of the post-war settlement as it came under strain during the 1950s and 1960s.

ISBN: 9780230361270 (electronic bk.)

Source: 362622Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

859362
Education and state
--History--Great Britain--20th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

556459
Great Britain
--Politics and government--1997-Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: DA589.7 / .O53 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 941.085

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