Title:
Re-stating social and political change
Author:
Hay, Colin, 1968-
ISBN:
9780335193868
9780335193875
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1996.
Physical Description:
xv, 208 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series:
Sociology and social change
Series Title:
Sociology and social change
Contents:
1. What is the state and why do we need a theory of it? -- 2. War and social change: building the New Jerusalem -- 3. The sense and nonsense of consensus: the state regime in post-war Britain -- 4. Citizenship: towards a patriarchal welfare state? -- 5. Theories of state crisis: legitimation crisis or political overload? -- 6. From contradiction to crisis: the structural transformation of the British state -- 7. Thatcherism: authoritarian populism, hegemony and the state -- 8. The state of the present: the consolidation of a post-Thatcher settlement.