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Inferior Politics - Social Problems and Social Policies in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Paperback)
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Inferior Politics - Social Problems and Social Policies in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Paperback)
Series: The Past and Present Book Series
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Inferior Politics explores how social policy was created in Britain
in a period when central government was not active in making it.
Parliament proved capable of generating national legislation
nonetheless-and provided a forum for debate even when it was
impossible to mobilise consensus behind any particular plan. In
this setting, there was a lively, and surprisingly inclusive,
'politics' of social policy-making, in which 'inferior' officers of
government (what we might call 'local authorities') figured
prominently. The book explores institutional structures which
shaped these debates and their outcomes, and supplies several case
studies of policy-making: one focussing on some of the less
well-known activities of William Wilberforce, as he attempted to
promote a national 'reformation of manners'; others featuring such
apparently marginal figures as imprisoned debtors and a lowly (and
bigoted) London constable. A central chapter explores the history
of social and economic empirical enquiry from the invention of
'political arithmetic' in the later seventeenth century through to
the first census of 1801, detailing similar interaction between
government and private enthusiasts. Drawing together three decades
of the author's work, including two new essays, Inferior Politics
demonstrates how Joanna Innes has significantly revised and
extended our understanding of the ways and means of British
domestic government, in an era marked by institutional continuity
but continuing and vigorously debated social challenges.
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