Coercion or Persuasion? - Propaganda in Britain After 1945

First published in 1989, Coercion or Persuasion? exposes the deficiencies of Attlee government’s propaganda in Britain. Dr Crofts shows how Labour government, in its effort to resolve the conflict between its belief in socialist planning and its reluctance to use compulsion, attempted to ‘exhort’ rather than ‘persuade’ British public.