LEADER 02729nam 2200505 450 001 9910790848003321 005 20230515174246.0 010 $a1-77558-662-6 035 $a(CKB)2550000001165833 035 $a(EBL)1531101 035 $a(OCoLC)862828990 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5649470 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5649461 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001165833 100 $a20190216d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe state in New Zealand, 1840-1984 $esocialism without doctrines? /$fMichael Bassett 210 1$aAuckland, New Zealand :$cAuckland University Press,$d1998. 215 $a1 online resource (446 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-77558-206-X 311 $a1-306-16045-6 327 $aCover; 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, 1972-79 327 $a12. Big Government's Last Hurrah, 1979-84Notes; Index 330 $a
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 t 606 $aPolitical planning$zNew Zealand$xHistory 606 $aWelfare state$zNew Zealand$xHistory 607 $aNew Zealand$xEconomic policy 607 $aNew Zealand$xSocial policy 615 0$aPolitical planning$xHistory. 615 0$aWelfare state$xHistory. 676 $a320.60993 676 $a320/.6/0993 700 $aBassett$b Michael$f1938-$01464649 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790848003321 996 $aThe state in New Zealand, 1840-1984$93761774 997 $aUNINA