Publisher's Synopsis
With a growing rapprochement between the Right and the Left towards the centre ground, public policy is one of the few areas in which differentiation can be made. This volume analyzes how the New Right agenda in Britain and the United States has attempted to influence public policy, and the extent to which such policies have had the anticipated results.;The opening chapter introduces the "variety" of New Right thought: Chicago, Austria, supply side and public choice schools. The role of New Right "think tanks" in shaping political opinion is set out. Other individual chapters look at taxation, public finance, privatization, consumer policy, education, health, the elderly, urban policy and housing, and also the implications of these ideas for the study of public policy.
