REVISION GOVERNANCE-

1. REVISION GOVERNANCE- • Two questions in three hours • Remember good exams techniques • Allow equal time for each question • Been disciplined move on after 1.30 to next question

2. The Thatcher Revolution • Literature of what makes the Thatcher Revolution – ie a break with the past in the sense of • Break with post war settlement – full employment and welfare state • Break with Conservative Party thinking

3. Thatcher Revolution • Policy examples privatisation policy contracting out of services • Economic policy priority of inflation despite increases in unemployment • Taxation policy and increases in income inequalities • Public expenditure – means testing

4. Thatcher Revolution • Conservative Party thinking • Break with pragmatism and One Nation Conservative • Embrace market liberal thinking

5. The Blair Governments • Need to deal with • Meaning of the Third Way and the idea of New Labour • Explore layers of Labour thinking fundamentalism, labourism and social democracy • Explain how Blair seeks to break with these traditions

6. Blair Government • Fundamentalism end of clause iv break with nationalisation and embrace free markets • Labourism make a break with trade unions accept Conservative trade union reforms no attempt at pay policy • Social democracy break with Crosland view of classless society Britain has become more unequal

7. Blair Government • Macro economic policy golden rules on PSBR and national debt • Independence of central bank inflation • Implicit pay policy • Growth in public expenditure • Looking after the poor

8. Income Inequality since 1980s • Need to explore who gets what and what we means by income inequality – measure of gini coefficient – see article by Freedland in Wed Guardian • What policies contribute to income inequalities

9. Income inequality • Taxation policy – decision to reduce tax thresholds for higher income groups • Labour market policies competitive markets insecure employment less trade union influence so what has happened to wages • Public expenditure policy

10. Income inequality and ideology • Thatcher Government embrace free markets need inequality to increase incentives and enterprise – • Markets competition – skills reflect inequality • Labour markets as social constructs • Inequality not inevitable

11. Limits of democracy • Meaning of democracy explain the is and the ought statements what they means and implications • Is realities ought hopes – explain some history English civil war chartists • Bobbio on broken promises

12. Democracy • Condition of democracy in Britain • Party system • Civil servants • Cabinet and presidential style of prime minister • Decline of parliament

13. Democracy and markets • Democracy and markets what is the connection • Democracy is about freedom free speech changes in government • Freedom means free labour freedom to choose mobility • Markets are about rational individualism idea of competitive markets

14. Markets individualism • Meaning of rational individualism • End and not means to an end no such thing as the good society • Contrast to other models feudal society, slavery, totalitarian planned economies • Corruption and cronyism

15. Limits of markets • Markets are social constructs • Issues of power and influence • Possible to have a dictatorship and free markets • Democracy needs markets • Markets do not need democracy

16. Policy Making and Political choices • Focus on meaning of political choice • Idea of political autonomy • Idea of constraints • Political choices – about policy priorities • Political parties reflect different ideologies

17. Politics does matter • Politics is about dialogue resolving conflict rather than violence – role of parties to reflect differences • Politics as concern about resources health, education income inequalities • Parliament as reflection of politics