Inferior Politics: Social Problems and Social Policies in Eighteenth-Century Britain

by Joanna Innes

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019886745X
• ISBN13: 9780198867456
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"