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Thatcherism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
Thatcherism A term describing the ideology of Margaret Thatcher , which formed the...looking to its pre-1945 status as a world power. The influence of Thatcherism could be seen in the government of the Labour Party , which under Tony...
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Distant Voices, Still Lives
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Cannes Film Festival, 1988. Publications Books: Friedman, Lester, editor, Fires Were Started: British Cinema and Thatcherism, Minneapolis, 1993. Winston, Wheeler, editor, Re-viewing British Cinema, 1900–1902: Essays and Interviews...
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populism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
...state itself, the policies of British governments during the 1980s, and the ideology which informed them (so-called Thatcherism), were sometimes described by those on the political left as ‘authoritarian populism’. Populism...
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Beveridge Report
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
...society after the war, and prepared the ground for Attlee's surprise victory against Churchill in 1945. Its recommendations formed the foundation of British social and economic policy from 1945 until the advent of Thatcherism in 1979.
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monetarism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
...governments have accepted the control of inflation as a central economic objective, though they have been reluctant to carry out the more radical implications of monetarism such as the dismantling of the welfare state . Keynesianism ; Thatcherism
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Major, John
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
...poll tax and signed the Maastricht Treaty . To general surprise, he was re-elected in 1992. In many respects, he took Thatcherism to areas where even she was reluctant, such as the privatization of the railways and the attempted privatization of the...
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Thatcher, Margaret
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
...political patriotism, low taxes, private ownership, balanced budgets, and individual initiative which later became known as Thatcherism. However, if the goal was financial stability, permanently low inflation, reduced government spending, and lower taxes...
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Neoliberalism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...Ronald Reagan (yielding the label "Reaganomics") and former prime minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher ("Thatcherism"); particular intellectual trends, such as supply-side economics and monetarism, associated with academics such as...
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Foot, Michael
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
...goverment's lack of an overall majority. In 1980, he became Labour leader, when the party responded disastrously to Thatcherism by steering to the left, rather than to the centre. He supported unilateral disarmament and the CND , which convinced many...
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Macmillan, (Maurice) Harold, 1st Earl of Stockton
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
...subsequently devoted much of his time to his duties as Chancellor of Oxford University, to which office he had been elected in 1960. From 1984 he was a prominent member of the House of Lords, and an outspoken critic of Thatcherism .
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