ABSTRACT
The ideological saturation of economic policy and hence the impossibility of considering the economy apart from ideology except for analytic purposes is exemplified in Keynesianism. By the middle of the 1970s then there was no consistent ideological message emanating from central government, which consequently was considered to be weak. The ways in which events during this period are reflected in these titles needs explanation however. Neither Conservative nor Labour managed to stabilize its ideology either in terms of content or in terms of electoral support, and both were thrown off course by international events beyond their control. The state of political upheaval in the 1970s is deemed not only to have left social institutions bereft of ideological leadership but also to have enhanced the authority of professionals and provided them with the opportunity to promote new intellectual movements.
