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Inferior Politics explores how social policy was created in Britain in a period when central government was not active in making it. Parliament proved capable of generating national legislation nonetheless-and provided a forum for debate even when it was impossible to mobilise consensus behind any particular plan. In this setting, there was a lively, and surprisingly inclusive,'politics'of social policy-making, in which'inferior'officers of government (what we might call'local authorities') figured prominently. The book explores institutional structures which shaped these debates and their outcomes, and supplies several case studies of policy-making: one focussing on some of the less well-known activities of William Wilberforce, as he attempted to promote a national'reformation of manners'; others featuring such apparently marginal figures as imprisoned debtors and a lowly (and bigoted) London constable. A central chapter explores the history of social and economic empirical enquiry from the invention of'political arithmetic'in the later seventeenth century through to the first census of 1801, detailing similar interaction between government and private enthusiasts. Drawing togethe

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Author

Innes, Joanna;

Publisher

Oxford University Press USA - OSO

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191571527

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Social Science