By Stephen P. Savage, Lynton Robins, Virginia Langum
A concise and finished advent to the coverage tasks and effect of the Thatcher governments elected in 1979, 1983 and 1987. The ebook offers massive assurance of the entire key coverage parts including an evaluation of the coverage approach lower than Thatcher, the consistency of presidency guidelines - either internally and with the political time table of the recent correct - and their most likely long term results.
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Where previous governments, especially Labour, had sought to develop various forms of positive industrial 34 Economic Policy and Privatisation strategy, Thatcherism had no specific strategy except a trust in the efficacy of market forces. There were two main aspects of the supply-side approach: first to improve the way the labour market functioned by improving incentives to work and reducing any 'distortions' which prevented the labour market from working efficiently, and second to make markets for goods and services function more efficiently, through privatisation in the broadest sense.
Thus while noting the relative quiescence of Parliament during the 1980s, this should not be assumed to be a permanent state, nor should Parliament's role be underestimated. Whitehall and the Civil Service As already noted in the Introduction, Mrs Thatcher came to power believing that government was inherently inefficient and wasteful. In particular she saw civil servants as a privileged group largely concerned to preserve their own position- thus they needed to be 'deprivileged'. In addition the civil service was one of the few constants in government during the post-war era, therefore it was seen as a key part of the postwar consensus which Mrs Thatcher wished to overthrow and thus it was held at least partly responsible for Britain's decline.
On the whole given the size of the current government's majority, the fact that Mrs Thatcher has won three consecutive elections, her forthright style of leadership and the disorganised state of the opposition parties it should come as no surprise that the Commons has on the whole operated largely as a rubber stamp. This has produced a situation which at times has come close to Lord Hailsham's definition of an 'elected dictatorship'. However, were the next election (in 1991/2) to produce a much reduced Conservative majority with a considerable number of Conservative marginals it is highly likely that at the very least back benchers would extract more concessions from the executive and possibly, in traditional Conservative style, dispatch a group of Tory 'grandees' to tell Mrs Thatcher to make way for a new and more flexible leader.