This exploratory paper discusses the undemocratic agenda setting of elites in Britain and how it has changed politics within a form of capitalism where much is left undisclosed in terms of mechanism and methods. It argues for a more radical exploratory strategy using C. Wright Mills’...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- The State Also Rises: The Roots of Contemporary State Activism -- I Varieties of State Intervention -- 1 The Transformation of the British State: From Club Government to State-Administered High Modernism -- 2 The Forgotten Center: State...