Adversary Politics and Land : The Conflict Over Land and Property Policy in Post-war Britain (Paperback)

Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Power, adversary politics, government policy-making and the implementation problem; Part II. The Problem of Land and Property in Britain and the Effective Limits on Government Policy Initiation: 2. The history of land and property policy in Britain and the development of social democratic solutions (1845?1945); 3. The structure of the British land and property market as constraint on policy initiation; Part III. The History of Adversarial Policy Failure in Land and Property in Post-war Britain: 4. Labour, the 1947 system and the collapse of the development market (1945?1951); 5. The Conservative free market approach and the 1950s property boom (1951?1964); 6. Labour, the Land Commission and the problems of implementation (1964?1970); 7. The second failure of the Conservative free market approach and the 1970s property boom (1970?1974); 8. Labour and the failure of the Community Land Act (1974?1979); Part IV. Conclusion: 9. The failure of adversarial policies and the enigma of the Thatcher government; Notes; Index.