A Conservative Consensus? Housing policy before 1997 and after Peter King 160 pages £17.95/$34.90 1845400461 (pbk.) April 2006 purchase this book (secure order form) Search Inside the Book at Amazon.com Search Inside the Book at Amazon.co.uk Table of Contents Introduction (Sample Chapter)         "This book is very persuasive . . . but all should value the analysis of housing policy even if they do not agree with King's argument."  David Clapham, Roof

New Labour would like to portray 1997 as a new beginning for public policy, but Peter King argues that we now have, in housing and in other areas of public policy, a consensus based on Thatcherite reforms. He explores the particularly conservative understanding of housing that transformed public attitudes in the 1980s and 1990s, and the impact it still has on policy.

This book is written with non-housing specialists in mind, and will be of interest to students of housing, urban studies, public policy and politics, at both undergraduate and higher levels.

The author is Reader in Social Thought in the Centre for Comparative Housing Research at De Montfort University, Leicester.