Policies And Politics Under Prime Minister Edward Heath

Author : Andrew S. Roe-Crines,Timothy Heppell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030536732

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Policies and Politics Under Prime Minister Edward Heath by Andrew S. Roe-Crines,Timothy Heppell Pdf

This book explores the political and intellectual significance of Edward Heath’s leadership of the Conservative Party. It contains a series of original and distinctive chapters that feature extensive archival materials and original insights from leading political scientists and historians. The volume contributes significantly to our understanding of Conservative Party politics, leadership, and conservatism more broadly.

Author : Margaret Laing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:987213898

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Edward Heath - Prime Minister by Margaret Laing Pdf

Author : Edward Heath
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 1118 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448204663

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The Course of My Life by Edward Heath Pdf

The Course of My Life is not only the autobiography of one of the most distinguished figures of modern times, but a revealing panoply of twentieth-century political, international and social history. Born in 1916, Edward Heath became a Conservative Member of Parliament in 1950, following a glittering Oxford and military career, and was at the heart of political life for a long time - as Chief Whip (notably during the Suez Crisis), Minister of Labour, Lord Privy Seal at the Foreign Office, Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965-75, and Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974. Since relinquishing the leadership in 1975, he has maintained a central role in world affairs, as well as pursuing his wide musical and sailing interests. Edward Heath writes his autobiography with complete (and often very amusing) candour, offering us valuable and entertaining insights into the events of the past sixty years. He describes the importance of a united Europe, one of the driving influences in his life since he observed a Nuremberg Rally as an undergraduate, and his continuing thoughts on the subject after he took us into the European Community in the 1970s. He discusses the changes in the Conservative Party in his period as an MP and his modernisation of it as its leader, and the major issues of domestic policy, not least the economy, the trade unions and the Troubles in Northern Ireland; these are set against his range of activities on the international stage, including his negotiations with China and Saddam Hussein, shortly before the outbreak of the Gulf War in 1991. Both as a record of a momentous and unequalled career and as an important and frank document of personalities and events, The Course of My Life is as entertaining as it is revealing.

Author : Margaret Irene Laing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39076005440867

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Edward Heath, Prime Minister by Margaret Irene Laing Pdf

"Sir Edward Richard George "Ted" Heath, KG, MBE (9 July 1916 ? 17 July 2005) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to February 1974 and as Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975."--Wikipedia.

Author : John Campbell
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : NWU:35556017718651

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Edward Heath by John Campbell Pdf

The son of a carpenter, Heath broke the mould of upper-class Tory leaders and suffered years of snobbish mockery. With accomplishments outside politics, in music and international sailing, he is a veritable Renaissance Man. Yet his period premiership collapsed in chaos and humiliation after only three-and-a-half years. Eclipsed by the Thatcherite economic miracle, his achievements were easily overlooked. Now that Thatcherism itself has given way to a punishing recession, perhaps Heath can emerge in terms of Shakespearean tragedy - as a man of remarkable qualities cursed with a blight that turned all to ashes.

Author : M. Holmes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230376113

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The Failure of the Heath Government by M. Holmes Pdf

Second revised edition of a study of the Conservative government of 1970-74 which discusses and attacks recent revisionist interpretations which exonerate Heath from culpability for the economic and industrial meltdown of 1972-74. Reveals the economic, political and electoral misjudgements of the Heath government.

Author : Philip Ziegler
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007412204

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Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler Pdf

The magisterial official life of Britain's complex and misunderstood former prime minister, which offers a fundamental reassessment of his reputation.

Author : Stuart Ball,A. Seldon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317889946

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The Heath Government 1970-74 by Stuart Ball,A. Seldon Pdf

Only now is it possible to see Edward Heath's controversial administration (1970-1974) in balanced historical perspective - and increasingly it seems a turning-point for postwar Britain. This timely volume explores the agenda of the Heath government in all its aspects (including economy, industrial relations, social policy, immigration, Northern Ireland, British entry into Europe, and foreign relations), assesses how far it achieved its aims, and examines the response to them. The book is based upon much new research, including the archives of the Conservative Party and the TUC, and interviews with many of those involved at the heart of government. The result will be essential reading for anyone interested in modern British history, politics and government. Contributors include PAUL ARTHUR, LEWIS BASTON, VERNON BOGDANOR, ALEC CAIRNCROSS, CHRISTOPHER HILL, DENNIS KAVANAGH, ZIG LAYTON-HENRY, CHRISTOPHER LORD, RODNEY LOWE, JOHN RAMSDEN, ROBERT TAYLOR, KEVIN THEAKSTON, JOHN YOUNG.

Author : Anthony Bertelli,Peter John
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191640605

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Public Policy Investment by Anthony Bertelli,Peter John Pdf

This book addresses one of the enduring questions of democratic government: why do governments choose some public policies but not others? Political executives focus on a range of policy issues, such as the economy, social policy, and foreign policy, but they shift their priorities over time. Despite an extensive literature, it has proven surprisingly hard to explain policy prioritisation. To remedy this gap, this book offers a new approach called public policy investment: governments enhance their chances of getting re-elected by managing a portfolio of public policies and paying attention to the risks involved. In this way, government is like an investor making choices about risk to yield returns on its investments of political capital. The public provides signals about expected political capital returns for government policies, or policy assets, that can be captured through expressed opinion in public polls. Governments can anticipate these signals in the choices they make. Statecraft is the ability political leaders have to consider risk and return in their policy portfolios and do so amidst uncertainty in the public's policy valuation. Such actions represent the public's views conditionally because not every opinion change is a price signal. It then outlines a quantitative method for measuring risk and return, applying it to the case of Britain between 1971 and 2000 and offers case studies illustrating statecraft by prime ministers, such as Edward Heath or Margaret Thatcher. The book challenges comparative scholars to apply public policy investment to countries that have separation of powers, multiparty government, and decentralization.

Author : Denis MacShane
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1904950698

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Heath by Denis MacShane Pdf

A passionate European, Edward Heath succeeded in taking Britain into the European Community. He was latter challenged for the leadership of the party by Margaret Thatcher who sidelined him during her period in office.

Author : Anthony King,Anthony Stephen King
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822306344

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The British Prime Minister by Anthony King,Anthony Stephen King Pdf

The British prime minister is universally acknowledged to be the most powerful single individual in the British system of government, but very little is known about what goes on behind the closed door at #10 Downing Street. As Anthony King points out, there are few articles—let alone books—on the prime ministership available to students of British politics either in the UK or the US. As the preface to the American edition states, while the British prime minister and the American president "do resemble each other in some ways, it is important right at the start to recognize the profound differences between them."

Author : Sir Geoffrey Howe
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Cabinet officers
ISBN : 031212533X

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Conflict of Loyalty by Sir Geoffrey Howe Pdf

"In a frontbench career spanning twenty years, Geoffrey Howe served in the Cabinets of Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher. Under the latter he was successively Chancellor, Foreign Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister during virtually the whole of her eleven years in power. In these memoirs he gives an account of government at the highest level during the 'triumph and tragedy' of the Thatcher premiership. He explains how and why he lost confidence in Thatcher, writing about his dismissal as Foreign Secretary and resignation as Deputy Prime Minister."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Christopher Byrne,Nick Randall,Kevin Theakston
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030449117

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Disjunctive Prime Ministerial Leadership in British Politics by Christopher Byrne,Nick Randall,Kevin Theakston Pdf

This book illustrates the cyclical pattern in the kinds of dilemmas that confront political leaders and, in particular, disjunctive political leaders affiliated with vulnerable political regimes. The volume covers three major episodes in disjunction: the interwar crisis between 1923 and 1940, afflicting Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald and Neville Chamberlain; the collapse of Keynesian welfarism between 1970 and 1979, dealt with by Edward Heath, Harold Wilson and James Callaghan; and the ongoing crisis of neoliberalism beginning in 2008, affecting Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May. Based on this series of case studies of disjunctive prime ministers, the authors conclude that effective disjunctive leadership is premised on judicious use of the prime ministerial toolkit in terms of deciding whether, when and where to act, effective diagnostic and choice framing, and the ability to manage both crises and regimes.

Author : Philip Gabriel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : NWU:35556019565746

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British Government by Philip Gabriel Pdf

Author : Leonard Freedman
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X004306610

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Politics and Policy in Britain by Leonard Freedman Pdf

Focuses on a variety of policy issues, including the economy, social welfare, education, race and gender, civil liberties, and foreign policy.