Why did the financial services become central to the British economy in the 1980s?

• The central focus of the dissertation is on the UK policy process
• The dissertation should explain the particular nature of the political and economic context that led to the Big Bang reform in 1986.
• The dissertation should use John Kingdon’s ‘multiple streams approach’ as a theoretical framework
• The dissertation should discuss the factors that led to the Big Bang reform such as Margaret Thatcher, globalization and deregulation etc
• The dissertation should be more qualitative than quantitative so should not overuse empirical data
• The dissertation should not include a ‘methodology’ or ‘results’