Public Policy and the New Right
The Impact of Ideology
Published on 11. January 1993
Book
Hardback
290 pages
978-1-85567-002-0 (ISBN)
Description
With a growing rapprochement between the Right and the Left towards the centre ground, public policy is one of the few areas in which differentiation can be made. This volume analyzes how the New Right agenda in Britain and the United States has attempted to influence public policy, and the extent to which such policies have had the anticipated results. The opening chapter introduces the "variety" of New Right thought: Chicago, Austria, supply side and public choice schools. The role of New Right "think tanks" in shaping political opinion is set out. Other individual chapters look at taxation, public finance, privatization, consumer policy, education, health, the elderly, urban policy and housing, and also the implications of these ideas for the study of public policy.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
569 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85567-002-0 (9781855670020)
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Content
Introduction - the new right and public policy - a preliminary overview, Grant Jordan; the new right - four main schools, Nigel Ashford; the new right as ideology, David Welsh; monetary policy, Nigel Healey; reaganomics, Thatcherism and public finance, Arthur Midwinter; taxation policy and the new right, Martin J. Smith; privatization, deregulation and the new right, Dennis Swan; consumer policy and the new right, Martin J. Smith; local government - from monopoly to competition, George Boyne; good for your health - the new right's ideas and health reform, Peter Williamson; the new right, housing and urban renewal in Britain and the United States, Brian Jacobs; education and the impact of the new right, Charles Raab; the new right and provision for the elderly, Norman Barry.