Abstract
During the 1970s a new politics became established in the West. There were different national variants but many common themes. In the 1980s its most celebrated exponents were the governments of Margaret Thatcher in Britain and Ronald Reagan in the United States. The new politics came to be thought of primarily as a new conservative politics.
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Gamble, A. (1994). A crisis of hegemony. In: The Free Economy and the Strong State. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23387-8_2
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