Ebook: The State in New Zealand, 1840-198 : Socialism without Doctrines?
Author: Michael Bassett
- Tags: Political planning-New Zealand-History., Welfare state-New Zealand-History., New Zealand-Economic policy., New Zealand-Social policy., HIS004000
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Auckland University Press
- City: Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
- Language: English
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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 to be slowed. Drawing on departmental archives, many not previously consulted by historians, The State in New Zealand covers in a new way, and with clarity and style, a subject of great contemporary interest.
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