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Part 1 Stating the obvious: what is the state and do we need a theoryof it? Part 2 Stating social and political change: war and socialchange - building the new Jerusalem; the sense and nonsense ofconsensus - the state regime in post-war Britain; citizenship - towardsa patriarchal welfare state?; Part 3 Re-stating crisis: theories ofstate crisis - legitimation crisis or political overload?; fromcontradiction to crisis - the structural transformation of the Britishstate; Part 4 Re-stating social and political change: Thatcherism -authoritarian populism, hegemony and the state; the state of thepresent - the consolidation of a post-Thatcher settlement.