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Decline of the Public echoes concerns being heard across the political divide. Marquand′s analysis of the problem is compelling – and certainly worth worrying about.

Decline of the Public echoes concerns being heard across the political divide. Health Service Journal) powerful and eloquent polemic. More damaging still are the hollowing out of citizenship, the manipulative populism that now pervades British government and a slide towards a new version of the 'Old Corruption' that our Victorian ancestors thought they had banished. David Marquand traces the growth of the public domain from Gladstone to Attlee, analyses the forces that began to undermine it in its post-war heyday and.

The burden of argument is that New Labour’s acceptance and deeper entrenchment of the neo-liberal ‘Thatcherite settlement’ is openly complicit in subverting the peculiarly British ‘public domain. Blair’s ‘monarchical,’ populist and personalised style of governance has wreaked even greater and more ideologically forthright destruction than Thatcher, who at least ‘embodied the culture and instincts of the Conservative Party’.

Decline of the Public book. David Marquand has constructed a masterly and highly readable plea for the idea of the public once again to be celebrated in British life. His re-entry into the national conversation could not be better timed or more important. Let's hope our fellow citizens take arms in the battle he invites us to join. -Will Hutton, Columnist, Observer Newspaper.

Marquand addressed Britain's relative economic decline in The Unprincipled Society . Palgrave Macmillan – via Google Books. The Decline of the Public: The Hollowing Out of Citizenship, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2004. The public domain is a gift of history

Marquand addressed Britain's relative economic decline in The Unprincipled Society (1988) and The New Reckoning (1997). He argued that this decline was caused by Britain's failure to become a developmental state like France, Germany and Japan. "Former Labour MP joins Plaid Cymru". The public domain is a gift of history. Now it is at risk, New Statesman, 19 January 2004.

David Marquand has constructed a masterly and highly readable plea for the idea of the public once again to be celebrated in British life. ISBN13:9780745629094. Read full description. See details and exclusions. The Decline of the Public: The Hollowing Out of Citizenship by David Marquand (Paperback, 2004). Brand new: lowest price.

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David Marquand traces the growth of the public domain from Gladstone to Attlee, analyses the forces that began to undermine it post-war and exposes the campaign that the Thatcher and Blair governments have waged against it. He ends with a call for a counter-attack based on . . He ends with a call for a counter-attack based on a re-statement of the civic ideal in a twenty-first century idiom.

David Ian Marquand FBA, FRHistS, FRSA (born September 20, 1934) is a British . For the book by Edward Gibbon, see The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

David Ian Marquand FBA, FRHistS, FRSA (born September 20, 1934) is a British academic and former Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP). Born in Cardiff, Marquand was educated at Emanuel School, Magdalen College, Oxford, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and at the University of California, Berkeley. Now it is at risk, New Statesman, 19/01/2004.