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This chapter attempts an overview of what can be called the statecraft adopted by successive national governments to the race issue in postwar Britain. It highlights the continuity of a code of territorial management operated by and from the centre- the Cabinet and senior civil servants - towards governmental agencies, politicians, and citizens in the periphery. This code (or statecraft) reflects, in its essentials, a set of more general and traditional ideas concerning the appropriate power configuration in territorial politics or relations between centre and periphery. More particularly, it involves a view of the most advantageous stance which can be taken by the centre on those matters it regards as either unimportant or replete with potentially awkward political consequences for its own authority and prestige.
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Bulpitt, J. (1986). Continuity, Autonomy and Peripheralisation: the Anatomy of the Centre’s Race Statecraft in England. In: Layton-Henry, Z., Rich, P.B. (eds) Race, Government and Politics in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18395-1_2
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