Politics of State Expansion

<p>The expansion of the British state was neither automatic nor accidental. Rather, it was the outcome of recurring battles over the proper boundaries of the state and its role in economy and society. <em>The Politics of State Expansion</em> focuses on the interests arrayed on either side of this struggle; providing a new and critical perspective on the growth of the `Keynsian welfare state' and on the more recent retreat from Keynes and from collective provision.</p> Chapter 1 Introduction: The politics of state expansion in twentieth-century Britain; Chapter 2 The Victorian inheritance; Chapter 3 Labour and the demand for state expansion, 1890–1918; Chapter 4 War and the creation of the modern tax state; Chapter 5 The state in war and reconstruction; Chapter 6 The resilience of budgetary orthodoxy; Chapter 7 Labour and the state between the wars; Chapter 8 The “people's war” and the transformation of the state; Chapter 9 Towards the “Liberal-Socialist” state, 1945–51; Chapter 10 “Centring” the postwar settlement; Chapter 11 Epilogue: Decline to Thatcher;