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The Politics of State Expansion - War, State and Society in Twentieth Century Britain (Hardcover)
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The Politics of State Expansion - War, State and Society in Twentieth Century Britain (Hardcover)
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Despite powerful opposition, the British government expanded
rapidly over the course of the twentieth century, and by the 1950s
had come to occupy a prominent place in the daily life of the
nation. In this study, James Cronin argues that the politics of
Britain's expansion were twice transformed by war which, combined
with mobilization for war, expanded the state's bureaucratic and
fiscal capacity and disturbed the normal workings of politics. The
interests opposed to the growth of government lost influence, and
new political space was created for reformers inside and outside
the state to argue the case for innovative public policies.
After the First World War, the battle was won by those with a very
limited vision of what the state should do; after the Second World
War a much broader vision triumphed. Even then, those who opposed
the state's expansion managed to deny to reformers the fiscal and
administrative mechanisms that would be required over the long term
in order to meet the commitments made in the 1940s. The absence of
those tools would bedevil subsequent governments, and would lead to
the triumph in 1979 of a Conservative government eager to abandon
the commitments embodied in the "postwar" settlement.
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