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Thatcherism is a form of British conservative ideology named after Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher that relates to not just her political platform and particular policies but also her personal character and style of management while in office.
The Reagan administration offered covert aid to the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola , a group of anti-communist and pro capitalist fighters led by Jonas Savimbi, whose attacks were backed by South Africa and the US. Dr. Peter Hammond, a Christian missionary who lived in Angola at the time, recalled:
Reagan gives a televised address from the Oval Office, outlining his plan for tax reductions in July 1981.. Reaganomics (/ r eɪ ɡ ə ˈ n ɒ m ɪ k s / ⓘ; a portmanteau of Reagan and economics attributed to Paul Harvey), [1] or Reaganism, were the neoliberal [2] [3] [4] economic policies promoted by U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s.
Under the Reagan Doctrine, the United States provided overt and covert aid to anti-communist guerrillas and resistance movements in an effort to "roll back" Soviet-backed pro-communist governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The doctrine was designed to diminish Soviet influence in these regions as part of the administration's overall ...
President Reagan, shown in 1981, based many of his policies on ideas from the Heritage Foundation publication "The Mandate for Leadership." Project 2025 makes up a majority of the latest edition ...
The Reagan Administration had some of the highest illegal union firings in recorded history. In 1981, to protect domestic auto sales the Reagan administration signed an agreement with Japan that it would not import more than 1.67 million cars into the United States, which would be one in four cars sold in America.
In the United Kingdom, the term New Right more specifically refers to a strand of Conservatism that Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan influenced. Thatcher's style of New Right ideology, known as Thatcherism , was heavily influenced by the work of Friedrich Hayek (in particular the book The Road to Serfdom ).
The thesis of post-war consensus was most fully developed by Paul Addison. [5] The basic argument is that in the 1930s Liberal intellectuals led by John Maynard Keynes and William Beveridge developed a series of plans that became especially attractive as the wartime government promised a much better post-war Britain and saw the need to engage every sector of society.