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The neoliberal programme of the Thatcher and Major administrations in Britain provides a clear and well-developed case for examining the role of New Right ideas in policy-making. Described by journalist Peter Jenkins as ‘The Thatcher Revolution’, the Conservative governments after 1979 broke the Keynesian social democratic mold that had dominated British politics after WWII. Britain offers the leading case of privatization, where privatization started and has gone the farthest and is most clearly theorized as a governing ideology and analyzed by a wide range of scholars.
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© 1996 Joel D. Wolfe
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Wolfe, J.D. (1996). Explaining the Politics of Privatization. In: Power and Privatization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371859_2
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