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Gallas, Alexander. The Thatcherite Offensive: A Neo-Poulantzasian Analysis. Leiden: Brill, 2016. Historical Materialism Book Series 107, ISBN 978-90-04-23161-0, 318 pp. US$149.00 (hardcover). Martin-López, Tara. The Winter of Discontent: Myth, Memory, and

“…5 Gallas challenges the centrality of hegemony, or the notion of a hegemonic project, in Hall and in Jessop, arguing that: "(i)t is questionable whether the success of Thatcherism should be assessed in terms of how close its hegemonic project came to attaining full hegemony no matter whether this is measured by looking at: the degree to which a Thatcherite common sense was dominant, or the degree to which there was institutional "coherence" and "active consent." 6 Instead of hegemony, with the claim that Thatcherism did not seek to establish hegemony, he centers his analysis on the "mode of leadership and dominance." Drawing on both sides of the debate which he claims to integrate, and drawing from Poulantzas, he develops a conceptual framework and methodology shifting emphasis from the establishment of social cohesion and economic order, central to these other accounts, to class domination and class politics: "if the class regime and the economic policy regime conform to each other I refer to the result as a regime of condensation .…”