The State Recreated

Moran, Michael

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Michael Moran²

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Abstract

In the 1980s and 1990s, statecraft – both Thatcherite and New Labour – found a way out of crisis. Social citizenship was recast by large-scale economic liberalisation. There was a revolution in state–civil society relation which greatly strengthened the regulatory grip of the central state. The constitution was reshaped, notably by a recasting of the Unionist settlement both in Ulster and in Scotland and Wales. The state gave new meaning to British identity, and sought a new historical destiny in the European Union.

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Notes

1.
On the state of mind over health reform in the Thatcher Cabinet see Lawson 1993: 303–4 and 612–9.
2.
Feigenbaum et al. 1999: 1, 62.
3.
For a summary of the changes and their scale see Bowman et al. 2014 and Bowman et al. 2015.
4.
The debate at the time encapsulated in King 1976.
5.
Relies on Bowman et al. 2014: 13–20 and Pessoa and Van Reenen 2012.
6.
Marsh 1992 for a summary.
7.
Office for National Statistics 2014.
8.
The story is told in Moran 1990.
9.
Engelen et al. 2011, pp. 188ff for this history; Pessoa and Van Reenen 2012 for GVA figures.
10.
Pattie and Johnston (2009) on voting and territory; Denver and Garnett 2014 on the evolution of electoral competition more generally.
11.
Anderson, B. 1991: 163–70.
12.
Power 1997; for high modernism, Scott, J. 1998; and for the links between the two Moran 2007.
13.
The accounts of law, medicine and education are drawn from Moran 2007: 124ff; from Brazier et al. 1993; and from Moran 1999: 101–10.
14.
The accounts of sport and the regulation of human fertility draw on Moran 2007: 88–9 and 147–8.
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Documented authoritatively in Hood et al. 1999.
16.
Bulpitt 1983 and 1986.
17.
Bulmer et al. 2002; and Bulmer and Burch 2009.
18.
Tonge 2006 for the authoritative study.
19.
Bogdanor 1998 and Bogdanor 2009: 89–120.
20.
Jeffery 2009 on the intergovernmental complexities.
21.
On which Bowman et al. 2015.
22.
Committee on Standards in Public Life 1998 for fifth report.
23.
Aldrich 2009, especially 758–60 for the institutional changes.
24.
The vast Snowden archive can be explored at: https://snowdenarchive.cjfe.org/greenstone/cgi-bin/library.cgi Greenwald (2014) is the best journalistic account.
25.
In his famous speech Palmerston did not actually use the phrase by which the speech is usually known, but every educated Victorian listener could adapt Cicero to an imperial British setting. For the text, http://www.historyhome.co.uk/polspeech/foreign.htm, acessed 11 July 2016.
26.
For a summary Nugent 2010: 30–2.
27.
McGuire 2009.
28.
For the non-effect in the Lee Valley – the immediate location of the 2012 Games – see Natural England 2014; and for tracking of the pre and post Olympics national participation pattern Sport England 2016.
29.
Ofsted 2015: 36.
30.
There is now a comprehensive comparative study of these two states in Danilova 2015.
31.
Guardian (2014) for a chart of all conflicts up to 2014; Syrian engagements post 2014 continue the story.
32.
Figures to end of 2014; Ministry of Defence 2014, but later casualties now carry the series to end 2015.
33.
Fussell 1975: 315.
34.
Danilova 2015: 53.
35.
The account of Remembrance commemorations relies on Reid 2009 and Winter 1995: 85–116.
36.
For instances Crockett 2015; Moreton in the Marsh Parish Council 2016; Green 2016; and my own observations of over thirty years attendance at the memorial service in Glossop Derbyshire.
37.
On the National Arboretum Danilova 2015: 64–5 and National Arboretum 2016. On the Poppy Installation Tower of London 2014.
38.
For the variety of official Scottish commemorations see Herald Scotland, 2016; for a good sampling of the variety of popular Remembrances in Scotland see Daily Record 2016.

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