The State Under Stress Can the Hollow State Be Good Government?

by Christopher D. Foster

An analysis of the sweeping changes that have occurred in British government since 1979 but particularly since 1988. Economists Foster and Plowden argue that there has been a decline in competence and ability to deliver good government in Britain, describing overloaded ministers, an altered and diminished Parliamentary power, and the transformation of the government's machinery by changes in the Cabinet, privatization, contractorization, and the creation of executive agencies. Their conclusion pleads for reforms which will stem the tide of, they argue, an undermined democracy. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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First published October 1, 1996