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The Boundaries of the State in Modern Britain by S. J. D. Green, R. C. Whiting

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By S. J. D. Green, R. C. Whiting

This cutting edge ebook offers a necessary ancient point of view at the barriers of the nation in smooth Britain. At a time of excessive debate concerning the country, the gathering of interdisciplinary stories accumulated the following emphasizes the sheer number of public involvement in British lifestyles, the ebb and move of that involvement and its dynamics, and the broader implications this has for civil society and highbrow existence. those new essays give a contribution to present debates not just via supplying a old research but additionally by way of seeking to destiny advancements.

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It was evident also in the widespread tendency of 1950s social workers to treat the residual 'poor' as candidates for psychotherapy. Thirdly, it led to widespread lack of understanding about the historical meaning of many major items of contemporary policy - items which often appeared to be merely practical and pragmatic, but which in fact had profound significance for the underlying long-term character of both state and society. Instances of such lack of understanding can be found at many points where state activity bisected and redefined the lives of individuals and communities: in policies towards families, education, immigration, transport, sexual morality and madness (to name but a few).

I cannot in this short chapter adequately summarise all the many and varied strands in British political thought between the late Victorian period and the 1930s, though I have already given some examples of the range of interests that it contained. A general point that should be emphasised, however, is the overwhelmingly organicist and idealist character of nearly every aspect of that tradition, even in quarters that are often conventionally thought of as the inner heartlands of British positivism and individualism.

D o n a l d G. Macrae, 'Domestic Record of the Labour Government', Political Quarterly, 20, 1 (1949), 1-11; and N . A. Smith, 'Theory and Practice of the Welfare State', Political Quarterly, 2 2 , 4 (1951), 3 6 9 - 8 1 . T . H . Marshall, Citizenship and Social Class and Other Essays (London, 1950). 26 Jose Harris social institutions (demographic trends, tax structures, day-to-day relationships between citizens and officials). 35 Ill Did the weakness of political theory matter? Did it make any difference that policy-makers in the post-war era were not inspired or constrained by a culture of academic and public discussion that might have given the new functions of the state a more than merely pragmatic legitimacy?

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