1. Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists ( New York: Monthly Review Press, 1962 ), 157. See also 29,138–9,219,505,628–30. According to a 1994 survey, one-third of Labour Party members in the House of Commons stated that Robert Tressell had the greatest influence on their political beliefs. R. H. Tawney and the Bible ranked second and third. See
2. Steve Platt and Julia Gallagher, ‘From Bevan to the Bible,’ New Statesman and Society 7 (30 September 1994): 22–3.
3. A. J. Cronin, The Citadel (Boston: Little, Brown, 1937), esp. 133, 188–95.
4. See Paul A. Sabatier and Hank C. Jenkins-Smith, eds., Policy Change and Learning: An Advocacy Coalition Approach ( Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993 ), esp. 1–56, 211–35;
5. Hank C. Jenkins-Smith and Paul A. Sabatier, ‘Evaluating the Advocacy Coalition Framework,’ Journal of Public Policy 14 (April–June 1994 ): 175–203; Paul A. Sabatier and Hank C. Jenkins-Smith, The Advocacy Coalition Framework: An Assessment’ (paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 1996 ).