Ideas and Think Tanks in Contemporary Britain: Volume 1

Type
Book
Authors
Michael Kandiah 1962 ( Anthony Seldon )
 
ISBN 10
0714647438 
Category
320 PoliticalScience  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
1996 
Publisher
Volume
VOLUME 1 
Pages
207 
Subject
Research institutes -- Great Britain; Policy sciences -- Research -- Great Britain; 
Description
This study looks at the influence of ideas and think tanks in Britain, contemplating how ideas have shaped politics and society. The purveyors of ideas for change - the think tanks - are examined, and academics and participants vieww are recorded in a number of interviews. - from Amzon 
Biblio Notes
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction by Michael David Kandiah and Anthony Seldon…………….........p. 1

2. Political Ideas Since 1945, Or How Long was the Twentieth century? By Rodney Barker…………………………………………………………………………….......................……….p. 2

3. The Beveridge Strain-Jacket: Policy Formation and the Problem of Poverty pin Old Age by Helen Faweett………………………………………………………...............………p. 20

4. The Nature and Impact of Think Tanks in Contemporary Britain by Andrew Denham and Mark Garnett……………………………………………………...........…………….p. 43

5. The Social Market Foundation by Levis Baston……………………………….....…….p. 62

6. Blueprint for a Revolution’? The Politics of the Adam Smith Institute by Richard Heffernan…………………………………………………………………………........................…...p. 73

7. The institute of Economic Affair: Undermining the Post War Consensus by Christopher Mullier…………………………………………………………………………..............….p. 88

WITHNESS SEMINAR

8. The Number 10 Policy Unit (editor) by Michael David Kandiah………........….p.111

INTERVIEWS

9. The Influence of Collectivist Ideas (Anthony Seldon interviews Bernard Crick)…………………………………………………………………………………........................….p. 126

12. The Influence of Liberal Ideas in Post-War Britain(Anthony Seldon interviews, Lord Dahrendorf)……………………………………………………………..............................p. 137

13. The Influence of Sociology in Post-War Britain(Anthony Seldon interviews, Anthony Graham)………………………………………………………............................…..p. 144

14. The Influence of Economic Policy(Anthony Seldon interviews, Anthony Graham)………………………………………………………………………..........................………p. 152

15. The Influence of Ideas on the Modern Conservative Party(Anthony Seldon interviews, John Ramsden)……………………………….......................……………………p. 168

16. The Influence of Ideas on Economic Policy (I) (Anthony Seldon interviews,Lord Roll of Ipsden, KCMG,CB)……………………………….................................………….p.186

17. The Influence of Classical Liberalism and Monetarist Economics (Christopher Mulier interviews, Arthur seldom)…………………………............................……….p. 199
 
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