Author: W.H Greenleaf
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131783366X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 546

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First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: W. H. Greenleaf
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135033579
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 622

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First published by Methuen in the 1980s Volume I: The Rise of Collectivism: This volume establishes the central theme that the most important feature of British political life since the nineteenth century has been the extension of the role of government at all levels. Volume II: The Ideological Heritage: The second volume reviews the development of the three main political ideologies in British politics: Conservatism, Liberalism and Socialism, with special reference to the ways in which they have affected or responded to the rise of collectivism. Volumes III and IV: A Much-Governed Nation Parts 1 and 2: Examining the way in which our political arrangements have been adapted and extended to deal with the wider range of responsibilities thrust upon them, these two volumes also describe the changes in the main traditional institutions (Local government, the Civil Service, the Cabinet, Parliament etc) as they deal with the growth of the state, as well as looking at the increased use of delegated legislation and administrative tribunals.

Author: Harry Judge
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131799728X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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This book examines an important aspect of the relationship between higher education and the public - especially secondary - system of schooling in Britain. Higher education has influenced secondary schools in a number of ways, and not least in the development of school examinations. The contributors to this book – each of them experts in their fields analyse the contributions made by some university luminaries, most of them still household names. These personalities have contributed in a variety of ways such as: becoming Ministers of Education contributing powerfully to successive reform movements using their status as members of that mysterious class called 'the great and the good' to mould public policy and to chair prestigious commissions choosing to centre their own research and scholarship on matters related to schooling. Using Oxford University as its chosen case study, this book places these studies in the wider context of the role of Oxford in public and political life, and in an international context. It examines critically the overall contribution of one university to the formulation of national policies, questions the extent to which that contribution has been unique and beneficent, and offers explanations of the contemporary decline in that influence. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Oxford Review of Education.

Author: Jean-Guy Prevost
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317321251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Based around a number of illustrative case studies, this book charts the development of our modern-day reliance on statistics. Topics covered include scientific innovations, administrative issues and the use of numbers in politics. By looking at these aspects of statistics together, the authors are able to present a truly original work.

Author: Anne Strachan
Publisher: Library Association Publishing (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Author: R. A. W. Rhodes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 790

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In this volume, author R. A. W. Rhodes (political science, U. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) explores such questions as what has changed in British government over the past two decades and how and why it has changed; why so many government policies fail; and what the shift from government to governance means for the practice and study of British government. He also questions the methodological and theoretical assumptions rife in the study of British government, offering a theoretical model of governance, explaining the methodology, discussing applications, and new developments. Distributed by Taylor and Francis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: David Edgerton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139448741
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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A challenge to the central theme of the existing histories of twentieth-century Britain, that the British state was a welfare state, this book argues that it was also a warfare state, which supported a powerful armaments industry. This insight implies major revisions to our understanding of twentieth-century British history, from appeasement, to wartime industrial and economic policy, and the place of science and technology in government. David Edgerton also shows how British intellectuals came to think of the state in terms of welfare and decline, and includes a devastating analysis of C. P. Snow's two cultures. This groundbreaking book offers a new, post-welfarist and post-declinist, account of Britain, and an original analysis of the relations of science, technology, industry and the military. It will be essential reading for those working on the history and historiography of twentieth-century Britain, the historical sociology of war and the history of science and technology.

Author: Ellen Frankel Paul
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521703055
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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In this collection, thirteen prominent philosophers and political scientists address the nature of liberalism, its origins, and its meaning and proper interpretation. Some essays examine the writings of liberalism's earliest defenders, like John Locke and Adam Smith, or the influence of classical liberalism on the American founders. Some focus on the Progressive movement and the rise of the administrative state, while others defend particular conceptions of liberalism or examine liberal theories of justice, including those of John Rawls and Robert Nozick. Several essays discuss the U.S. Constitution, seeking to determine whether it is best viewed as empowering the federal government to achieve certain ends, or as strictly limiting its power to ensure the broadest freedom for individuals to pursue their own ends. Other essays address the limits of economic freedom or focus on the nature and extent of property rights and the government's power of eminent domain.

Author: G. W. Andrew
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Author: Ian Budge
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Examines comparatively the major political developments of our time: the explosion of democracy in Eastern Europe and the Third World and its deepening in Western democracies. It analyzes how the new democracies are experimenting with Western models and highlights how problematic these models are.