Sacred Cows and Common Sense (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
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Engelska
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286
Utgivningsdatum
2019-06-05
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Routledge
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9781138350922

Sacred Cows and Common Sense

The Symbolic Statecraft and Political Culture of the British Labour Party

av Tim Bale
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2019-06-05
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First published in 1999, this volume is based on interviews and research from previously unavailable party, state and private archives, this insightful volume reflects on the interaction between institutional structure and world-view that we call political culture. Using Labours post-war welfare policy, this informative study makes three key points: The need to break down distinctions between the symbolic and the substantial in politics. The potential of Grid-Group or Cultural Theory as a way of understanding party political culture. The crucial but self-defeating role that welfare policy has played in Labours efforts to manage itself, win support and govern competently. The well-documented research leads to the conclusion that New Labours much-heralded desire to think the unthinkable about welfare is largely rhetorical if one recalls what Labour did in office rather than promised in opposition. The Governments welfare reforms, rather than constituting a serious attempt to confront new social realities, are in fact par for the course. Political scientists cannot ignore the new governments past. Political historians need to appreciate the patterns woven in a welter of detail and social democratic defensiveness. By fusing a realist conception of statecraft, an interpretavist interest in symbols and a predictive comparative model of the interaction between ideology and organisation, this authoritative work will enable readers to do just that.
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1. Introduction. 2. Of Frying Pans and Fires, 1967. 3. Welfare as Weapon the Symbolic Politics of NHS Charges, 1951-64. 4. A Two-Edged Sword the Symbolic Politics of NHS Charges, 1964-7. 5. The Ritual Slaughter of a Sacred Cow. 6. The Pseudo-Event Spins Out of Control. 7. The Politics of Power and the Politics of Support. 8. Conclusion.

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