The Rise of Conservative Capitalism: Ideological Tensions within the Reagan and Thatcher Governments

@article{Hoover1987TheRO,
  title={The Rise of Conservative Capitalism: Ideological Tensions within the Reagan and Thatcher Governments},
  author={Kenneth R. Hoover},
  journal={Comparative Studies in Society and History},
  year={1987},
  volume={29},
  pages={245 - 268}
}
  • Kenneth R. Hoover
  • Published 1 April 1987
  • Economics, Political Science
  • Comparative Studies in Society and History
The phrase liberal capitalism has occasionally been used in contemporary political criticism to lump together the ideological approaches of nonsocialist political parties and to suggest that there are few significant differences among those who generally support a market-based political economy. C. B. Macpherson, in an influential essay entitled The Real World of Democracy (1965), argues that “by admitting the mass of the people into the competitive party system, the liberal state did not… 
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