This article uses the changes in housing policy in postwar Britain as a case study upon which to build a new perspective on the debate about Thatcherism and the strategy of the New Right. It is based on a critical reconceptualisation of Gramsci's notion of ‘hegemony’ capable of reconciling ‘macro’-level hegemonic shifts and ‘micro’-level changes in subjectivity within civil society.
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