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.
