The End Of Consensus

Author : Phil Tinline
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781787388840

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The Death of Consensus by Phil Tinline Pdf

Over Britain’s first century of mass democracy, politics has lurched from crisis to crisis. How does this history of political agony illuminate our current age of upheaval? To find out, journalist Phil Tinline takes us back to two past eras when the ruling consensus broke down, and the future filled with ominous possibilities – until, finally, a new settlement was born. How did the Great Depression’s spectres of fascism, bombing and mass unemployment force politicians to think the unthinkable, and pave the way to post-war Britain? How was Thatcher’s road to victory made possible by a decade of nightmares: of hyperinflation, military coups and communist dictatorship? And why, since the Crash in 2008, have new political threats and divisions forced us to change course once again? Tinline brings to life those times, past and present, when the great compromise holding democracy together has come apart; when the political class has been forced to make a choice of nightmares. This lively, original account of panic and chaos reveals how apparent catastrophes can clear the path to a new era. The Death of Consensus will make you see British democracy differently.

Author : Toby L. Parcel,Andrew J. Taylor
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469622552

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The End of Consensus by Toby L. Parcel,Andrew J. Taylor Pdf

One of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas, Wake County, North Carolina, added more than a quarter million new residents during the first decade of this century, an increase of almost 45 percent. At the same time, partisanship increasingly dominated local politics, including school board races. Against this backdrop, Toby Parcel and Andrew Taylor consider the ways diversity and neighborhood schools have influenced school assignment policies in Wake County, particularly during 2000-2012, when these policies became controversial locally and a topic of national attention. The End of Consensus explores the extraordinary transformation of Wake County during this period, revealing inextricable links between population growth, political ideology, and controversial K–12 education policies. Drawing on media coverage, in-depth interviews with community leaders, and responses from focus groups, Parcel and Taylor's innovative work combines insights from these sources with findings from a survey of 1,700 county residents. Using a broad range of materials and methods, the authors have produced the definitive story of politics and change in public school assignments in Wake County while demonstrating the importance of these dynamics to cities across the country.

Author : The Subcultures Network
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317628217

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Youth Culture, Popular Music and the End of 'Consensus' by The Subcultures Network Pdf

This book examines youth cultural responses to the political, economic and socio-cultural changes that affected Britain in the aftermath of the Second World War. In particular, it considers the extent to which elements of youth culture and popular music served to contest the notion of ‘consensus’ that historians and social commentators have suggested served to frame British polity from the late 1940s into the 1970s. The collection argues that aspects of youth culture appear to have revealed notable fault-lines in and across British society and provided alternative perspectives and reactions to the presumptions of mainstream political and cultural opinion in the period. This, perhaps, was most acute in the period leading up to and after the seemingly pivotal moment of Margaret Thatcher’s election to prime minister in 1979. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary British History.

Author : Dennis Kavanagh
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015017749972

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Thatcherism and British Politics by Dennis Kavanagh Pdf

Margaret Thatcher is the only 20th-century prime minister to have given her name to a style as well as a doctrine. Although the final balance sheet of the successes and failures of Thatcherism is yet to be tallied, this book places the government of Mrs. Thatcher in the perspective of postwar British politics. Here, Kavanagh describes how a postwar political consensus--covering full employment, welfare, conciliation of the trade unions, a mixed economy with state intervention, and social engineering--was established with the support of dominant groups in the Conservative and Labour parties. He then shows how that settlement broke down in the face of economic problems, changes in policies and personnel in the main parties, and the challenge to the intellectual bases of the consensus mounted by groups on the New Right. The book concludes with an insightful analysis of the government's record, and of prospects for a new consensus. Mrs. Thatcher has cited the breaking of the consensus as one of her primary political objectives, and in this penetrating study she emerges both as the architect of the collapse of consensus and as its product.

Author : Toby Green
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781787386150

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The Covid Consensus by Toby Green Pdf

Since the onset of the pandemic, progressive opinion has been clear that hard lockdowns are the best way to preserve life, while only irresponsible and destructive conservatives like Trump and Bolsonaro oppose them. But why should liberals favor lockdowns, when all the social science research shows that those who suffer most are the economically disadvantaged, without access to good internet or jobs that can be done remotely; that the young will pay the price of the pandemic in future taxes, job prospects, and erosion of public services, when they are already disadvantaged in comparison in terms of pension prospects, paying university fees, and state benefits; and that Covid's impact on the Global South is catastrophic, with the UN predicting potentially tens of millions of deaths from hunger and declaring that decades of work in health and education is being reversed. Toby Green analyses the contradictions emerging through this response as part of a broader crisis in Western thought, where conservative thought is also riven by contradictions, with lockdown policies creating just the sort of big state that it abhors. These contradictions mirror underlying irreconcilable beliefs in society that are now bursting into the open, with devastating consequences for the global poor.

Author : Robert Mason,Iwan Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Liberalism
ISBN : 0813064449

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The Liberal Consensus Reconsidered by Robert Mason,Iwan Morgan Pdf

Here, leading scholars-including Hodgson himself-confront the longstanding theory that a liberal consensus shaped the United States after World War II. The essays draw on fresh research to examine how the consensus related to key policy areas, how it was viewed by different factions and groups, what its limitations were, and why it fell apart in the late 1960s.

Author : Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski,John Williamson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780881324518

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After the Washington Consensus by Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski,John Williamson Pdf

This volume is a successor of sorts to the Institute's 1986 volume Toward Renewed Economic Growth in Latin America, which blazed the trail for the market-oriented economic reforms that were adopted in Latin America in the subsequent years. It again presents the work of a group of leading Latin American economists who were asked to think about the nature of the economic policy agenda that the region should be pursuing after a decade that was punctuated by crises, achieved disappointingly slow growth, and saw no improvement in the region's highly skewed income distribution. The study diagnoses the first-generation (liberalizing and stabilizing) reforms that are still lacking, the complementary second-generation (institutional) reforms that are necessary to provide the institutional infrastructure of a market economy with an egalitarian bias, and the new initiatives that are needed to crisis-proof the economies of the region to end its perpetual series of crises. Contributors: Daniel Artana, Nancy Birdsall, Roberto Bouzas, Saúl Keifman, Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski, Ricardo López Murphy, Claudio de Moura Castro, Fernando Navajas, Patricio Navia, Liliana Rojas-Suarez, Jaime Saavedra, Miguel Székely, Andrés Velasco, John Williamson, and Laurence Wolff.

Author : James Piereson
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781594038969

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Shattered Consensus by James Piereson Pdf

The United States has been shaped by three sweeping political revolutions: Jefferson’s “revolution of 1800,” the Civil War, and the New Deal. Each of these upheavals concluded with lasting institutional and cultural adjustments that set the stage for a new phase of political and economic development. Are we on the verge of another upheaval, a “fourth revolution” that will reshape U.S. politics for decades to come? There are signs to suggest that we are. James Piereson describes the inevitable political turmoil that will overtake the United States in the next decade as a consequence of economic stagnation, the unsustainable growth of government, and the exhaustion of postwar arrangements that formerly underpinned American prosperity and power. The challenges of public debt, the retirement of the “baby boom” generation, and slow economic growth have reached a point where they require profound changes in the role of government in American life. At the same time, the widening gulf between the two political parties and the entrenched power of interest groups will make it difficult to negotiate the changes needed to renew the system. Shattered Consensus places this impending upheaval in historical context, reminding readers that Americans have faced and overcome similar trials in the past, in relatively brief but intense periods of political conflict. While others claim that the United States is in decline, Piereson argues that Americans will rise to the challenge of forming a new governing coalition that can guide the nation on a path of dynamism and prosperity.

Author : Dennis Kavanagh,Peter Morris
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1994-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 063119228X

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Consensus Politics by Dennis Kavanagh,Peter Morris Pdf

Margaret Thatcher's departure from office and the arrival of her successor, John Major, have had a profound impact on the way Britain is governed - and in this new edition of Consensus Politics, the authors examines the legacy of Thatcherite "conviction politics" and assesses the state of consensus in Britain's government today. This chronicle of the rise and fall of the post-war consensus in five key policy areas - the mixed economy, full employment, trade unions, welfare and foreign policy - remains a superb introduction to one of the major debates of recent political history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004281196

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The Paradox of Openness by Anonim Pdf

Openness implies bottom-up empowerment and top-down transparency. The Paradox of Openness analyses the tensions encountered when openness is applied to the quest for democracy and markets, freedom and truth, compliance and transparency, and consensus and dissent in progressive Nordic societies.

Author : Joseph Stieb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108838245

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The Regime Change Consensus by Joseph Stieb Pdf

How the United States pivoted from containment to regime change in Iraq between the Gulf War and September 11, 2001.

Author : Peter Sutton
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780522856361

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The Politics of Suffering by Peter Sutton Pdf

Peter Sutton is a fearless and authoritative voice in Aboriginal politics. In this groundbreaking book, he asks why, after three decades of liberal thinking, has the suffering and grief in so many Aboriginal communities become worse? The picture Sutton presents is tragic. He marshals shocking evidence against the failures of the past, and argues provocatively that three decades of liberal consensus on Aboriginal issues has collapsed. Sutton is a leading Australian anthropologist who has lived and worked closely with Aboriginal communities. He combines clear-eyed, original observation with deep emotional engagement. The Politics of Suffering cuts through the cant and offers fresh insight and hope for a new era in Indigenous politics.

Author : David Dutton
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Consensus (Sciences sociales)
ISBN : 0631180974

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British Politics Since 1945 by David Dutton Pdf

Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Developments in Biomedicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995-03-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309051323

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Society's Choices by Institute of Medicine,Committee on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Developments in Biomedicine Pdf

Breakthroughs in biomedicine often lead to new life-giving treatments but may also raise troubling, even life-and-death, quandaries. Society's Choices discusses ways for people to handle today's bioethics issues in the context of America's unique history and cultureâ€"and from the perspectives of various interest groups. The book explores how Americans have grappled with specific aspects of bioethics through commission deliberations, programs by organizations, and other mechanisms and identifies criteria for evaluating the outcomes of these efforts. The committee offers recommendations on the role of government and professional societies, the function of commissions and institutional review boards, and bioethics in health professional education and research. The volume includes a series of 12 superb background papers on public moral discourse, mechanisms for handling social and ethical dilemmas, and other specific areas of controversy by well-known experts Ronald Bayer, Martin Benjamin, Dan W. Brock, Baruch A. Brody, H. Alta Charo, Lawrence Gostin, Bradford H. Gray, Kathi E. Hanna, Elizabeth Heitman, Thomas Nagel, Steven Shapin, and Charles M. Swezey.

Author : David Dutton
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 063116278X

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British Politics Since 1945 by David Dutton Pdf