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Ball, Stuart, 1956
The Heath government, 19701974 : a reappraisal / edited by Stuart Ball and Anthony Seldon.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0582259924 (CSD). ISBN 0582259916 (PPR)
1. Great BritainPolitics and government19641979. 2. Heath, Edward. I. Seldon, Anthony. II. Title.
DA592.B28 1996
Paul Arthur is Professor of Politics at the University of Ulster. He is author of Government and Politics of Northern Ireland (Longman, 1980, 1984, 1987); Northern Ireland since 1968 [with K. Jeffery] (Blackwell, 1986) a new edition will appear early in 1996; Aspirations and Assertions: Britain, Ireland and the Northern Ireland Problem (Routledge, forthcoming); Reading Violence: Ireland, in D. E. Apter and Bruce Kepferer (eds), Democracy and Violence (Macmillan, forthcoming).
Stuart Ball is a Reader in History at the University of Leicester. He is author of Baldwin and the Conservative Party: The Crisis of 192931 (Yale University Press, 1988) and The Conservative Party and British Politics 190251 (Longman, 1995), and editor of Parliament and Politics in the Age of Baldwin and MacDonald: The Headlam Diaries 192335 (The Historians Press, 1992) and The Conservative Party since 1945 (Manchester University Press, forthcoming). He has co-edited Conservative Century: The Conservative Party since 1900 (Oxford University Press, 1994).
Lewis Baston took a First in PPE in 1991 and subsequently became a postgraduate student at Nuffield College, Oxford. He is currently Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary British History and is chief researcher on the forthcoming biography of John Major. He is a regular contributor to the political press, including Parliamentary Brief.
Vernon Bogdanor is Reader in Government at the University of Oxford and a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Brasenose College. His many publications include Devolution (Oxford University, 1979), The People and the Party System (Cambridge University Press, 1981), Multi-Party Politics and the Constitution (Cambridge University Press, 1983) and What is Proportional Representation? (Martin Robertson, 1984). He has edited Coalition Government in Western Europe (Heinemann, 1983), Liberal Party Politics (Oxford University Press, 1983), Representatives of thePeople? (Gower, 1985), and Constitutions in Democratic Politics (Policy Studies Institute, 1988); he was also co-editor of The Age of Affluence 195164 (Macmillan, 1970). His latest publications are The Monarchy and the Constitution (Oxford University Press, 1995) and Essays on Politics and the Constitution (Dartmouth, 1995).
Alec Cairncross was Master of St Peters College, Oxford until his retiral in 1978. He is the author of numerous books, including Home and Foreign Investment 18701913 (Cambridge University Press, 1953); Years of Recovery: British Economic Policy 194551 (Methuen, 1985); The British Economy since 1945 (second edition, Blackwell, 1995); Managing the British Economy in the 1960s (Macmillan, 1995); Economic Ideas and Government Policy: Studies in Contemporary History (Routledge, 1995); and A Treasury Diary 196469 (The Historians Press, 1995).
Christopher Hill is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Cabinet Decisions in Foreign Policy: The British Experience, October 1938June 1941 (Cambridge University Press, 1991) and the editor (with Pamela Beshoff) of Two Worlds of International Relations: Academics, Practitioners and the Trade in Ideas (Routledge, 1994).
Dennis Kavanagh is Professor in Politics at the University of Liverpool. His most recent publications include The British General Election of 1992, with David Butler (Macmillan, 1992), The Major Effect, co-edited with Anthony Seldon (Macmillan, 1994), and Election Campaigning: The New Politics of Marketing (Blackwell, 1995).
Zig Layton-Henry is Professor of Politics and Director of the ESRC Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations at the University of Warwick. He is author of The Politics of Race in Britain (1984) and The Politics of Immigration (1992). He is editor of Conservative Party Politics (1980), Conservative Politics in Western Europe (1982), Race Government and Politics in Britain (1986, with Paul Rich) and The Political Rights of Migrant Workers in Western Europe (1990).