The Powers Behind the Prime Minister: The Hidden Influence of Number Ten

Dennis Kavanagh and Anthony Seldon's book gives a picture of the workings of prime ministerial power in Britain from 1970 onwards and throws the spotlight on those who work there. It examines the various units serving the Prime Minister, the powerful influence of officials, the tensions between civil servants and political aides, and it takes the reader through the six premierships from Ted Heath to Tony Blair. Kavanagh and Seldon have had unprecedented co-operation from senior civil servants and government insiders - both past and present - as well as from former Prime Ministers, secretaries and other Downing Street staff. As most of the period covered by the book still falls under the Thirty Year rule, it contains material that has never before been disclosed which sheds an illuminating new slant on much of the politics of the last forty years.

SELDON, ANTHONY

Kavanagh, Dennis

Legal Theory & Systems

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

How many people know what lies on the other side of the door to 10 Downing Street, or indeed, who built the building? Providing a portrait of the centre of a British Prime Minister's power, this book contains revelatory material on the private behaviour of many of the 20th century's political leaders, as well as an anlysis of how successive Prime Ministers have wielded their power within these 18th-century walls.

The Powers Behind the Prime Minister

HarperCollins, UK

Political Science and Political Behaviour

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Unwin Hyman

This best-selling and highly respected text provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the British polity and political system. Politics UK, 5th edition, covers all of the core elements of an introductory undergraduate and "A" level British politics course - the constitution, social context, political ideology, parliament, Prime Minister and departments, elections and voting behaviour, the media, pressure groups, local government and the judiciary as well as the major policy areas. The material is presented in a consistently clear and lively style, constantly challenging the student and raising thought-provoking issues.

Politics UK (5th Edition)

Jones, Bill

Norton, Philip

Moran, Michael

Politics & Government

Longman

Margaret Thatcher is the only 20th-century prime minister to have given her name to a style as well as a doctrine. Although the final balance sheet of the successes and failures of Thatcherism is yet to be tallied, this book places the government of Mrs. Thatcher in the perspective of postwar British politics. Here, Kavanagh describes how a postwar political consensus -- covering full employment, welfare, conciliation of the trade unions, a mixed economy with state intervention, and social engineering -- was established with the support of dominant groups in the Conservative and Labour parties. He then shows how that settlement broke down in the face of economic problems, changes in policies and personnel in the main parties, and the challenge to the intellectual bases of the consensus mounted by groups on the New Right. The book concludes with an insightful analysis of the government's record, and of prospects for a new consensus. Mrs. Thatcher has cited the breaking of the consensus as one of her primary political objectives, and in this penetrating study she emerges both as the architect of the collapse of consensus and as its product.

Thatcherism and British Politics: The End of Consensus?

History

Europe

Oxford University Press

The new edition of this acclaimed study of the Thatcher administration has been fully revised and updated to include an analysis of developments since the Conservative Party's third election victory in 1987.

A survey of the events of the Thatcher era of government in Britain, updated to include developments since the 1987 election victory. The commentary is both historical and political, concentrating on the broad issues of consensus rather than upon Thatcher herself. Dennis Kavanagh has also written "British Politics: Continuities and Change" and "The Thatcher Effect: A Decade of Change".

British Politics: Continuities and Change

This new edition of "British Politics" is a comprehensive textbook which not only describes but also evaluates the British system of politics and government in modern politics science terms. Dennis Kavanagh examines the historical, constitutional, and cultural context of British politics. He deals with the familiar topics of the Cabinet, Parliament, the Civil Service, parties, pressure groups and local government. In addition he discusses often neglected issues such as political culture, corporatism, the police and judiciary, the mass media, political recruitment and political style, and the politics of economic decline. The concluding chapters consider the policy process and discuss the question of political power and the state of politics in Britain at the moment.

Business & Money

Economics

This comprehensive and newly-revised text surveys not only such familiar topics as the Cabinet, Parliament, parties, pressure groups, and local government but also such often neglected issues as political culture, corporatism, the police and judiciary, the mass media, political recruitment and political style, and economic decline.

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The Powers Behind the Prime Minister: The Hidden Influence of Number Ten

The Powers Behind the Prime Minister

Political Science and Political Behaviour

Political Science and Political Behaviour

Politics UK (5th Edition)

Thatcherism and British Politics: The End of Consensus?

Thatcherism and British Politics: The End of Consensus?

Thatcherism and British Politics: The End of Consensus?

British Politics: Continuities and Change

British Politics: Continuities and Change