The British State Since 1945: An Introduction

Introduction.

1. State Management and the Post-war Settlement.

2. State Management and Economic Policy from the 1940s to the 1970s.

3. Managing the British Welfare State.

4. Professional Interests and the British Welfare State.

5. The Emergence of 'New Managerialist' approaches towards the Civil Service in the Transition to Thatcherism.

6. The New Technologies of State Management.

7. Two Case Studies of the Changing British State: Youth Training and the Instruments of Urban Intervention.

8. The British State: Interpretations and Prospects.

Bibliography.

General Index.

Author Index.