Housing policy in transition: from the post-war settlement towards a ‘Thatcherite’ hegemony

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.