1st Edition
Power and Political Economy from Thatcher to Blair The Great Enemy of Democracy?
By Robert Ledger
Copyright 2021
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book investigates the policies of the Thatcher, Major and Blair governments and their approaches towards concentration of economic and political power.
The 1979–2007 British governments have variously been described as liberal or, to use a political insult and a favourite academic label, neoliberal. One of the stated objectives of the Thatcher, Major and Blair governments—albeit with... Read more
Introduction
1. The Ideological Perspective
2. History and Development of Competition Policy in Britain
3. Structural Shifts in the British Economy
4. Concentration and Regulation
5. Devolution, Nationalism and the British State
6. Politics and Power
7. A Legacy of Concentration
Conclusion
Biography
Robert Ledger has a PhD in political science from Queen Mary University of London. He currently lives and works in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is the author of Neoliberal Thought and Thatcherism: “A Transition From Here to There?”
