Accountable to None: The Tory Nationalization of Britain - Hardcover

Jenkins, Simon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241135915 ISBN 13: 9780241135914

Verlag: Hamish Hamilton, 1995

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Reseña del editor:

The governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major have been thought of as rolling back socialism and the state. Council houses were sold, and privatization has been regarded as a success all around the world. This book argues that the reality is very different. In almost every area of public life there has been a staggering increase in central control. Local government and public accountability have been replaced by anonymous quangos and direct ministerial rule - often answerable to nobody. With examples from the national lottery to the universities, from the health service to the police, and from the cities to the trains, this book shows how democracy has been eroded and the traditional British pluralism replaced by centralism.

Biografía del autor:

Simon Jenkins is the author of the bestselling books Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations, A Short History of England, England's Thousand Best Churches and England's Thousand Best Houses. He is the former editor of the Evening Standard and The Times, and a columnist for The Guardian and Evening Standard.

He has served as deputy chairman of English Heritage and chairman of the National Trust, was a founder member of SAVE Britain's Heritage and chaired the revision of the Pevsner guides from 1994 to 2011. He founded the Railway Heritage Trust and has served on the Boards of British Rail and London Transport. He lives in London and Aberdyfi.

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• Verlag: Hamish Hamilton
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0241135915
• ISBN 13: 9780241135914
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320