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- To what extent was there a consensus in the postwar period in Britain?
- Definitions of Consensus
- Pimlott
- Find and reference
- Kavanagh and Morris
- Find and reference
- The difficulty in definition
- If we define consensus as a happy agreement
- How do we begin to measure this?
- Find a reference
- It depends whether you assess it in terms of partisan or "important membership"
- Though there was unity through shared experience, because of the clear differences and competition between Labour and the Cons, there was very little-to-no postwar consensus
- i.e. those who best represented the views of the party or the WHOLE party
- There was even divisions between members of the same party which shows low levels of consensus
- How do we begin to measure this?
- If we define consensus as a happy agreement
- Dates of perceived consensus
- Pimlott
- Is consensus desirable?
- Would this be unrepresentative?
- Yes - this is shown in the different governments elected throughout the period - people want diff things
- No- Both parties campaigned on the grounds of rebuilding country i.e. employment, modernisation
- Find references from manifestos 1945 onwards
- Yes - in a country with newfound unity, the government should reflect this
- Would this be unrepresentative?
- Does the extent of consensus change based on when it is seen to end?
- Thatcher as end
- Economic reform: Hayekian
- Heath as end
- Economic reform from Butskellism to Keynesianism
- Voting against this policy in favour of Lab. shows beginning of disagreement
- Reference 2x Election results
- Find references to explain Butskell and Keynes
- Voting against this policy in favour of Lab. shows beginning of disagreement
- Economic reform from Butskellism to Keynesianism
- Wilson as end
- Shift in industrial relations
- Reference "in place of strife"
- Shift in industrial relations
- Thatcher as end
- Consensus measured by correlation in policy
- Nationalisation
- Untitled
- Nationalisation
- Definitions of Consensus
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