- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1: Introduction
- 1.1 ‘Tax-and-Spend’ and Social Democracy
- 1.2 The British Case
- 1.3 Historiography
- 1.4 The Rest of the Paper
- 2: Were the Mid-70s a Turning Point?
- 2.1 The Size of the State
- 2.2 Redistribution
- 3: The Role of Economic Constraints
- 3.1 The Bacon and Eltis Thesis
- 3.2 Inflation Concerns
- 3.3 Marginal Rates: The Laffer Curve & The Poverty Trap
- 3.4 Market and IMF confidence
- 4: Public Opinion
- 4.1 Were Electoral Constraints to be Expected?
- 4.2 Opinion Poll Evidence
- 4.3 Government Perceptions
- 4.4 Conclusions
- 5: Ideational Developments
- 5.1 Context: Social Democracy under Pressure
- 5.2 Healey, Callaghan and the Right
- 5.5 The Outcome
- 6: Conclusions
- Appendix: Background information
- Bibliography
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