The Major Premiership

Chapter 1 Chaos or Cohesion? Major and the Conservative Parliamentary Party

Chapter 2 A Permanent Revolution in Whitehall: the Major Governments and the Civil Service

Chapter 3 Centralisation and Fragmentation: John Major and the Reform of Local Government

Chapter 4 Renewed Consultation or Continued Exclusion? Organised Interests and the Major Governments

Chapter 5 Strategic Errors and/or Structural Binds? Major and European Integration

Chapter 7 Devout Defender of the Union: John Major and Devolution

Chapter 8 The 3 Rs — Reform, Reproach and Rancour: Education Policies under John Major

Chapter 9 Rolling Back the (Welfare) State: the Major Governments and Social Security Reform

Chapter 10 No Return to ‘Beer and Sandwiches’: Industrial Relations and Employment Policies under John Major

Chapter 11 The Limitations of Likeability: the Major Premiership and Public Opinion

Chapter 12 Despair and Disillusion Abound: the Major Premiership in Perspective