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Article Critique on Government Intervention DOING LESS BY DOING MORE: BR

"Doing Less by Doing More: British Government 1979-1993 by Jeremy Richardson

Richardson's primary thesis is that the attempt by the

British Government under Mrs. Thatcher and her successors to

limit the role of the state, to reduce government intervention in

society and to promote a return to freer markets, has actually

resulted in a "massive increase in direct state intervention in

Richardson argues that previously policy was determined by

a complicated set of interactions between government and private

interests, a sharing of power "between government and organised

society," (181) which was characterized by "a very close and

often symbiotic" (180) relationship between regulators and

regulated. Under this system "very few organized interests have

been refused access to policy makers." (181). He then traces the

disillusionment in Britain and elsewhere with the failures of the

welfare state and socialist direction of the economy and the

sluggish response of established institutions to the need for

fundamental changes in policy direction and their systemic

workings, "Britain's reform deficit." (182).

The former system has been replaced by one in which "there

was a conscious attempt to move from a consensual to an

impositional style of governing" and "conflictual politics." (183). In seeking "to facilitate the operation of market forces"

(179), successive Conservative governments pursued policies, one

goal of which was "forcing people to be free" (180). This has

resulted in a trend toward greater centralization of power in

governmental and new quasipublic regulatory agencies, "tighter

regulation of activities which were hitherto unregulated or were

at most selfregulated" (182) and more intrusion by government

into people's everyday lives. This shift toward stronger and more

pervasive government has manifested itself in...

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