leader. An example of such an occasion was the 1979 general election. Labour leader Michael Foot was a kind-hearted man, an ex-pilot and had credible policies, yet he cared not for his appearance and was often quite scruffy and poorly dressed. Mrs Thatcher on the other hand was well-spoken, well-dressed and an looked the part of a prime-minister - and it was her that won the election. It is also often the case that opinion polls also show this is the case, and that an appealing party leader will often
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often than not, when we think of great, enduring leadership, we think of lone men and women forging a difficult path for their people or cause to achieve great success and triumph. We think of men like Martin Luther King Jr. and women like Margaret Thatcher who have committed their entire lives to furthering a core value or making a better tomorrow for any specific group of people. While these people and these situations do define leadership (and present a pretty darn good argument for “born leaders”)
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| UK | Nigeria | Government stability | Very StableFollowing the market reforms instituted by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, Britain experienced steady economic growth throughout the 1990s; political stability continued throughout the years. However, the government’s size and spending grew significantly under successive Labour governments. Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition government, formed after the 2010 general election, has cut public services
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seen, not heard. However, modern civilised society gives various rights to women hence providing equality and balanced levels to both genders. Over the many years, tremendous things have been done by women such as “The Iron Lady of the 1900s”-Margaret Thatcher, who became the first ever female Prime
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Whittington’s Theories of Strategy What Whittington (2001) has tried to do is collate various theories about strategy over the last 40 years or so and put them into four categories. He has taken a Western viewpoint. The way he has done so is to place certain approaches to strategy in four decades. As you know, there are several different definitions of strategy from Mazzucato’s on page 1 of the Reader, Porter’s on page 11 and the ‘classical’ one of Chandler’s on page 34. What Whittington
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division of interpretations of Britain’s economic performances from 1951 to 1990, of those claiming that Britain suffered gradual and miserable decline until the heroine and saviour Mrs Thatcher came to the helm, or of those arguing that a genuine post-war boom existed throughout a large proportion of the era and Thatcher meddled unnecessarily and indeed harmfully, it is more accurate to take a balanced and differential approach. There is clear evidence of British economic decline from 1951-1990, but
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he fact that the Conservative government wanted to reduce trade union power was indeed a factor which led to the miners’ strike in 1984 but not necessarily the biggest one. It is relevant to state that the Thatcher Government was concerned over the general power that the unions held and had taken action to curb union powers with the introduction of the Employment Act 1982. Source 1 highlights the fact that the strike was the culmination of a long conflict between the Conservative Party and the
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AS Source Analysis Question Explain how far the views in Source 7 differ from those in Source 6 in relation to the reasons for the Conservative victory of 1959. Source 7 is a commentary that has been provided by Lord Butler (Conservative supporter) on the 1959 election, whilst Source 6 is a piece that has been written by Douglas Jay (a Labour supporter.) Source 7 differs from source 6 regarding the political party mentioned in the text. Whilst source 7 focuses primarily on the Conservatives party
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‘The Labour governments of 1964-1970 were more successful than the Labour governments of 1974-1979.’ How far do you agree? Both of the Labour Governments had some great successes, for instance, the 1964-1970 Labour government won the 1966 election with a majority of 100 seats. The Labour government of 1974-1979 did not win the election with a majority but managed to reduce inflation in 1978 from 15% to 8% which was a very large success as inflation had been a problem for a long time. Just from
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In the video “ The Commanding Heights”, episode 1 shows the world with a global economy that is then crippled by World War 1. Following World War 1 two young economists by the name of John Meynard Keynes and Friederich Hayek commence to solve the economic difficulties the world was currently situated in. Each economist had a different vision about the approach the world should therefore take to resolve the world’s economic dilemmas. John Meynard Keynes who first suggested the argument
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