This work evaluates the Thatcher governments and concludes that in some areas they demonstrated innovative leadership (in re-shaping some and exploiting changes on other popular attitudes, in circumventing and transcending the power of organized interests, in challenging government bureaucracies and local government, and in some adaptations to economic circumstances). In other areas they were constrained by social, governmental and economic factors. It explores the reasons for the radical policy changes achieved under Thatcher, concluding that they were in a large part due to relatively strong political will and a strong policy capacity enhanced by policy learning in office. The conclusions are intended to challenge central assumptions about democratic politics, British politics and public policy-making which tend
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978-1-85521-420-0 (9781855214200)
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Part 1 The scope of policy choice in democracies: democratic theory and public policy choice; social factors in public policy choice; governmental factors in public policy choice; economic and secular factors in public policy choice; patterns of democratic public policy choice; notes. Part 2 From leaders to innovative leadership: political leadership; leaders as policy-makers; notes. Part 3 Margaret Thatcher - a good test of innovative leadership?: Thatcher's political style; Thatcher's institutional relations; policy style, institutional relationship and prospects for innovative leadership; notes. Part 4 Social factors and Thatcher's policy choice: public opinion; interest groups; notes. Part 5 Governmental factors and Thatcher's policy choice: size and machinery of Government; inter-governmental relations; notes. Part 6 Economic and secular factors and Thatcher's policy choice: macro-economic policy; fiscal stress; notes. Part 7 Innovative leadership: Thatcher in perspective - Margaret Thatcher and British politics; innovative leadership in policy-making; innovative leadership, the state and comparative democracy; the concept of innovative leadership.
