David Lloyd George: Land, The Budget, and Social Reform

Gilbert, Bentley B.

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“…They met repeatedly with Winston Churchill in advance of the 1911 National Insurance Act (Webb 1909). Moreover, Gilbert (1976, 1,058–60) suggests that the act's limitations reflected Lloyd George's interest in protecting the City of London from excessive social reforms. Yet even the Fabians reinforced limitations of the liberal welfare state in seeking conditional relief to improve the character of the poor.…”

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What We Talk about When We Talk about Poverty: Culture and Welfare State Development in Britain, Denmark and France

Martin

Chevalier

2021

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Why did historical anti-poverty programs in Britain, Denmark and France differ so dramatically in their goals, beneficiaries and agents for addressing poverty? Different cultural views of poverty contributed to how policy makers envisioned anti-poverty reforms. Danish elites articulated social investments in peasants as necessary to economic growth, political stability and societal strength. British elites viewed the lower classes as a challenge to these goals. The French perceived the poor as an opportunity for Christian charity. Fiction writers are overlooked political agents who engage in policy struggles. Collectively, writers contribute to a country's distinctive ‘cultural constraint’, or symbols and narratives, which appears in the national-level aggregation of literature. To assess cross-national variations in cultural depictions of poverty, this article uses historical case studies and quantitative textual analyses of 562 British, 521 Danish and 498 French fictional works from 1770 to 1920.

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“…Yet even the Fabians reinforced limitations of the liberal welfare state in seeking conditional relief to improve the character of the poor. The act was very British in that the state could only use its power to relieve the distress of suffering individuals (Gilbert 1976, 855–61).…”

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What We Talk about When We Talk about Poverty: Culture and Welfare State Development in Britain, Denmark and France

Martin

Chevalier

2021

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Liberals, Labour and the Progressive Alliance

Belchem¹

1996

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David Lloyd George: the Reform of British landholding and the Budget of 1914

Gilbert

1978

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Between the summer of 1912 and the summer of 1914, while the British political world seethed over Marconi, the National Health Insurance doctors' revolts, Home Rule, and the cost of oil-fired battleships, the chancellor of the exchequer, David Lloyd George, himself a centre of controversy, began to put together a legislative project to reconstruct the system of British land holding. He saw land reform as the major effort of his political career. Not only would it break up the monopoly of the squire in the countryside, but it would snatch away also the untaxed profits of the city land speculator. With a new system of land valuation, uniform throughout the kingdom, local authority rating resources would be immensely broadened, making possible the imposition upon local government of wide new responsibilities in public and personal health, education and housing. Land courts would set higher wages for labourers and lower rents for farmers, all at the expense of the landowner.

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David Lloyd George: Land, The Budget, and Social Reform

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What We Talk about When We Talk about Poverty: Culture and Welfare State Development in Britain, Denmark and France

What We Talk about When We Talk about Poverty: Culture and Welfare State Development in Britain, Denmark and France

Liberals, Labour and the Progressive Alliance

David Lloyd George: the Reform of British landholding and the Budget of 1914

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