POLICY LEARNING AND BRITISH GOVERNANCE IN THE 1960S by Hugh Pemberton ( 9780230504752 )

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POLICY LEARNING AND BRITISH GOVERNANCE IN THE 1960S

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ISBN 10:

0230504752

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9780230504752

Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

12 July, 2004

Series:

Understanding Governance

Synopsis:

The 1960s was a decade of radical promise in British economic policy, a promise that was not realised. The new commitment to transform the British economy and achieve 4% annual economic growth demanded the introduction of an array of new policies. By the end of the decade, however, they had mainly been abandoned. Policy Learning and British Governance in the 1960s analyses the reasons for that failure. Hugh Pemberton marries detailed historical research with a new model of British economic policymaking that draws on the latest political science concepts of governance and policy learning. Perceptions of economic decline are seen to have created a powerful advocacy network and then radical policy learning in government. The subsequent failure to translate this learning into enduring policies that would achieve its ambitious objectives is then shown to be the product of a fundamental flaw in Britain's system of governance - a flaw that this book demonstrates has existed throughout the postwar period.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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