Thatcherism

Question 1

Who created the term Thatcherism

Answer 1

Stuart Hall

Question 2

Who were the new right inspired by

Answer 2

Hayek, Friedman, Smith, Von Mises

Question 3

What happened under social democracy

Answer 3

The state became overloaded

Question 4

What key part did Thatcherism incorporate

Answer 4

Strong moral values - Victorian, skeptical of the underclass there behaviour and values

Question 5

What was priorities

Answer 5

Inflation over full employment

Question 6

What changes were made to welfare

Answer 6

Means tested, entrenched.

Question 7

What else happened

Answer 7

Contracted out government services, creation of Quangos, deregulation of markets to strengthen the city of London

Question 8

What 3 explaniations are there and who came up with them?

Answer 8

Marsh in 1995 - ideological, political and economical

Question 9

What was overturned

Answer 9

Policy package of the post war consensus

Question 10

How could you describe Thatcherism

Answer 10

Radical political and ideological phenomena

Question 11

What did it do to people’s conceptions

Answer 11

Changed them made them view the state more and their indiviudal role, greater focus on them rather than expecting a lot from the state, change to the idea of them being consumers.

Question 12

What did Hay say

Answer 12

It created to a neo-liberal convergence.

Question 13

What is questioned about Thatcherism and by who?

Answer 13

Marsh and Rhodes question the extent to which it is radical, public spending still rose and taxes weren’t lowered. Large gaps between rhetoric and reality

Question 14

What happened to it over time and who believes

Answer 14

Hay and Kerr argue that the radicalisation was evolving over time continued over Major and Blair

Question 15

What different way could you describe Thatcher?

Answer 15

She was lucky, the left were a mess, Faulkland wars helped her popularity
She was never coherent and it only came together at the end.

Question 16

What did they do regarding the winter of discontent

Answer 16

Argued that it was a failing of social democracy.

Question 17

What does Thatcherism represent?

Answer 17

For many authors Thatcherism represents an abrupt, decisive and unprecedented break with the past. Kerr and Marsh 1999, Marsh and Rhodes 1992

Question 18

What were the first two Thatcher governments characterised by

Answer 18

Pragmastism than by ideological fervour - Marsh and RHodes 1992, Riddell, 1991

Question 19

How would you describe Thathcerism

Answer 19

Became radical over time through experimentation, adaptation to enivromental signals and trial and error

Question 20

What does the first election of Thatcher represent

Answer 20

A paradigm shift

Question 21

How did Hall describe Thatcherism

Answer 21

Authoritarian populism

Question 22

What does Blair and Major tell us about Thatcherism

Answer 22

The evolutionalary, incremental and cumulative nature Hay 2006

Question 23

How does Marsh describe Thatcherism

Answer 23

A novel, coherent, consistent and successful, ideology-inspired, strategy.

Question 24

What were the Conservatives four specific commitments on privitisation

Answer 24

Aerospace and shipbuilding, sell shares in National Frieght Corporation, relax licensing regulations on bus services and to allow councils to sell homes.

Question 25

When did privitisation became a dominant theme

Answer 25

Second and third term.

Question 26

Why did they privatise?

Answer 26

It was more politically easier and more popular than cutting public expenditure.

Question 27

How would you describe the first term economic policy

Answer 27

A disappointment - unemployment rose rapidly, the recession deepened, inflation increased, manufacturing output declined and interest rates rose

Question 28

What did Bootle argue

Answer 28

Thatcher first prime minister to have an -ism after there name. Blair did as well but more of a political style rather than economic. Thatcherism wasn’t about achieving signficant economic growth about change the way the state is perceived and changing minds.

Question 29

When was the miners strike defeated

Answer 29

1985 - crucial changed employment in the UK

Question 30

What did Batchelor argue

Answer 30

In 1981 he argued that if the first two years of thatcher’s reign were anything to go by, the previous years of callanghan were better.

Question 31

What happened to manufacturing

Answer 31

In the first two years it fell by 12%.

Question 32

Why was Thatcher radical

Answer 32

Because it wasn’t conservative at all, incredibly liberal.

Question 33

What were the 3 promisies for the economy

Answer 33

in 1979 they were to change the way the state acts - privatise. Change the economy - free it up. and lower inflation

Question 34

What does Bootle argue is Thatcher’s greatest achieviemnt

Answer 34

Changing the prospects of the City of London, financial centre that over from New York, one of the most important cities in the world.

Question 35

What was Thatcher’s view of the indiviudal

Answer 35

Atomically, there is no such thing as society.

Question 36

Summarise Thatcher and welfare

Answer 36

Budget soared under her because the system was so hard to change.

Question 37

Summarise Thatcher and Europe

Answer 37

Won a number of battles against the EU, thought it had excessive powers.

Her anti-EU views led to the pro-EU MP’s trying to remove her.

Famous “No, no, no” to Delors plans to have parliament as legislative body, Commision excutive and council as senate

Signed the Single European act which created the single market

Archiect of EU intergration, wanted UK to withdraw from some markets afterwards, unclear on whether she would of supported brexit.

Question 38

Summarise Thatcher and unions

Answer 38

Battle against Arthur Scargill, miners leader.

Too many industries were going on strikes called by unions, steel workers, post offcies, ferries

Winter of discontent really helped the cause, crisis of social democracy, bin bags piled up and grave diggers went on strike in Liverpool, “Labour isn’t working” poster was v effective

Union membership plumeted from 12 to 6 million. Thatcher described it as the evil within, british disease strike fever. Unions lost power, influence, millions of members and rights.

Question 39

Hit me with some key Thatcher statistics

Answer 39

Unemployment increased to 12%. Inflation fell from 21% to 3%. Two recessions and spending as a percentage of GDP increased in first two yeaers.