Preface

Part I. Introduction: 1. Power, adversary politics, government policy-making and the implementation problem

Part II. The Problem of Land and Property in Britain and the Effective Limits on Government Policy Initiation: 2. The history of land and property policy in Britain and the development of social democratic solutions (1845-1945)

3. The structure of the British land and property market as constraint on policy initiation

Part III. The History of Adversarial Policy Failure in Land and Property in Post-war Britain: 4. Labour, the 1947 system and the collapse of the development market (1945-1951)

5. The Conservative free market approach and the 1950s property boom (1951-1964)

6. Labour, the Land Commission and the problems of implementation (1964-1970)

7. The second failure of the Conservative free market approach and the 1970s property boom (1970-1974)

8. Labour and the failure of the Community Land Act (1974-1979)

Part IV. Conclusion: 9. The failure of adversarial policies and the enigma of the Thatcher government

Notes

Index.