02729nam 2200505 450 991080907740332120230515174246.01-77558-662-6(CKB)2550000001165833(EBL)1531101(OCoLC)862828990(MiAaPQ)EBC5649470(MiAaPQ)EBC5649461(EXLCZ)99255000000116583320190216d1998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe state in New Zealand, 1840-1984 socialism without doctrines? /Michael BassettAuckland, New Zealand :Auckland University Press,1998.1 online resource (446 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-77558-206-X 1-306-16045-6 Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Establishing Order in Colonial New Zealand; 2. Settlers Search for Prosperity; 3. The Search for Security; 4. The Essential Goodness of State Action; 5. World War Winds Up the State; 6. The State Under Challenge: The 1920s and the Depression; 7. Labour, Social Security and 'Insulation'; 8. War and the Omnipotent State; 9. Freedom or Controls? National Deals with Labour's Legacy; 10. Labour and National Struggle with the Economy, 1957-72; 11. Big Government Begins to Overreach Itself, 1972-7912. Big Government's Last Hurrah, 1979-84Notes; Index<DIV></DIV>In this innovative study Michael Bassett, historian and former politician, explores how and why the state became such an active and interventionist player in New Zealand life, developing, subsidising and regulating the economy and protecting citizens from the cradle to the grave. He looks in detail at the many schemes in which a paternalistic government became involved, especially the extensive social programmes. These were taken for granted by the people but from the 1960s were increasingly difficult to sustain economically. By 1984, he concludes, this process of intervention had tPolitical planningNew ZealandHistoryWelfare stateNew ZealandHistoryNew ZealandEconomic policyNew ZealandSocial policyPolitical planningHistory.Welfare stateHistory.320.60993320/.6/0993Bassett Michael1938-1629741MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809077403321The state in New Zealand, 1840-19844032654UNINA