British Conservatism

Author : Peter Dorey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857718853

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British Conservatism by Peter Dorey Pdf

Defence of inequality has always been a core principle of the Conservative Party in Great Britain. Yet the Conservatives have enjoyed great electoral success in a British society marked by widespread inequalities of wealth and income. Peter Dorey here examines the intellectual and political arguments which Conservatives use to justify inequality. He also considers debates between Conservatives over how much inequality is desirable or acceptable. Should inequality be unlimited, in order to promote liberty, incentives and rewards? Or should inequality be kept within certain bounds to prevent social breakdown and political upheaval? Finally, he examines why some less prosperous sections of British society have nonetheless supported the Conservatives instead of political parties promoting equality. This book will be an important resource for students and commentators of contemporary British politics.

Author : Bradley W. Hart,Richard Carr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441157232

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The Foundations of the British Conservative Party by Bradley W. Hart,Richard Carr Pdf

This book provides a range of essays on aspects of the British Conservative Party from the late 19th century to the present day. It offers fresh perspectives on Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism; Britain and Europe; UK policy towards Ireland; Conservatism and reform, and the conservative ideology, to name only a few of the key issues explored. An accessible and concise overview, this book is an important primer for anyone studying British politics, history, or social and political theory. Included are contributions by leading scholars in British political history, think tank commentators, and a former Prime Minister. It offers insights into the Conservative Party's staying power in spite of great social and political changes in the UK and the world. It looks at how the party has functioned historically and what its future might be, discussing its ideology and identity with reference to both Labour and Liberal opponents. Fundamentally it considers the conservative appeal to the electorate, conservative policy in both theory and practice, and debates that have taken place within and outside the party itself. Whether interested in Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George, or David Cameron and Nick Clegg, this work is intended to inform and challenge scholars and political practitioners alike.

Author : Steve Ludlam,Martin J. Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349244072

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Contemporary British Conservatism by Steve Ludlam,Martin J. Smith Pdf

Contemporary British Conservatism brings together a set of specially-commissioned chapters by leading authorities to provide a broad-ranging assessment of Conservative politics, policy and ideology today. A central concern throughout is to assess the impact of Thatcherism on the party and the extent to which there has been a return to more traditional Conservatism under John Major.

Author : Robert Eccleshall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134997749

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English Conservatism Since the Restoration by Robert Eccleshall Pdf

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Frank O'Gorman
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015012822683

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British Conservatism by Frank O'Gorman Pdf

Author : Bradley W. Hart,Richard Carr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441181411

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The Foundations of the British Conservative Party by Bradley W. Hart,Richard Carr Pdf

This book provides a range of essays on aspects of the British Conservative Party from the late 19th century to the present day. It offers fresh perspectives on Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism; Britain and Europe; UK policy towards Ireland; Conservatism and reform, and the conservative ideology, to name only a few of the key issues explored. An accessible and concise overview, this book is an important primer for anyone studying British politics, history, or social and political theory. Included are contributions by leading scholars in British political history, think tank commentators, and a former Prime Minister. It offers insights into the Conservative Party's staying power in spite of great social and political changes in the UK and the world. It looks at how the party has functioned historically and what its future might be, discussing its ideology and identity with reference to both Labour and Liberal opponents. Fundamentally it considers the conservative appeal to the electorate, conservative policy in both theory and practice, and debates that have taken place within and outside the party itself. Whether interested in Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George, or David Cameron and Nick Clegg, this work is intended to inform and challenge scholars and political practitioners alike.

Author : Kevin Hickson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030276973

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Britain’s Conservative Right since 1945 by Kevin Hickson Pdf

***Winner of the Political Studies Association Conservatism Studies Group prize 2020*** This book provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the Conservative Right in Great Britain since 1945. It first explores the movement’s core ideas and highlights points of tension between its different strands. The book then proceeds with a thematically structured discussion. The Conservative Right’s views on the decline and fall of the British Empire, immigration control, European integration, the British constitution, the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom, Britain’s economy, the welfare state, and social morality and social change are all explored. In the concluding chapter, the author evaluates the extent to which the Conservative Right has succeeded in its core objectives since 1945 and addresses how it can best respond to a contemporary Britain in which it instinctively feels uncomfortable. The book is based on extensive elite interviews and archival research and will be of interest to anyone who seeks to place the contemporary Conservative Right in a greater historical context.

Author : Peter Dorey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317172062

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British Conservatism and Trade Unionism, 1945–1964 by Peter Dorey Pdf

For most of the twentieth century, the Conservative Party engaged in an ongoing struggle to curb the power of the trade unions, culminating in the radical legislation of the Thatcher governments. Yet, as this book shows, for a brief period between the end of the Second World War and the election of Harold Wilson's Labour government in 1964, the Conservative Party adopted a remarkably constructive and conciliatory approach to the trade unions, dubbed 'voluntarism'. During this time the party leadership made strenuous efforts to avoid, as far as was politically possible, confrontation with, or legislation against, the trade unions, even when this incurred the wrath of some Conservative backbenchers and the Party's mass membership. In explaining why the Conservative leadership sought to avoid conflict with the trade unions, this study considers the economic circumstances of the period in question, the political environment, electoral considerations, the perspective adopted by the Conservative leadership in comprehending industrial relations and explaining conflict in the workplace, and the personalities of both the Conservative leadership and the key figures in the trade unions. Making extensive use of primary and archival sources it explains why the 1945-64 period was unique in the Conservative Party's approach to Britain's trade unions. By 1964, though, even hitherto Conservative defenders of voluntarism were acknowledging that some form of official inquiry into the conduct and operation of trade British unionism, as a prelude to legislation, was necessary, thereby signifying that the heyday of 'voluntarism' and cordial relations between senior Conservatives and the trade unions was coming to an end.

Author : Andrew Gilbert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509915897

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British Conservatism and the Legal Regulation of Intimate Relationships by Andrew Gilbert Pdf

What does conservatism, as a body of political thought, say about the legal regulation of intimate relationships, and to what extent has this thought influenced the Conservative Party's approach to family law? With this question as its focus, this book explores the relationship between family law, conservatism and the Conservative Party since the 1980s. Taking a politico- and socio-legal perspective, the discussion draws on an expansive reading of Hansard as well as recently released archival material. The study first sets out the political tradition of conservatism, relying largely on the work of Edmund Burke, before going on to analyse the discourse around the development of four crucial statutes in the field, namely: the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984; the Family Law Act 1996; the Civil Partnership Act 2004; and the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013. This work offers the first extended synthesis of family law, conservative political thought and Conservative Party politics, and as such provides significant new insight into how family law is made.

Author : E.H.H. Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134763887

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The Crisis of Conservatism by E.H.H. Green Pdf

The Crisis of Conservatism 1880-1914 offers a new interpretation of Conservative politics in the period 1880-1914 and comes to the startling conclusion that, but for the intervention of the First World War, there may well have been a 'Strange Death of Tory England.'

Author : Arthur Aughey,Greta Jones,William Terence Martin Riches
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0838635008

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The Conservative Political Tradition in Britain and the United States by Arthur Aughey,Greta Jones,William Terence Martin Riches Pdf

This book seeks to break new ground by providing an original framework within which to understand conservative politics and to compare what has always been thought to be opposite ideal types -- a British conservatism characterized by traditionalism and an American conservatism defined by its optimistic individualism.

Author : Geraint Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108483124

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Popular Conservatism and the Culture of National Government in Inter-War Britain by Geraint Thomas Pdf

A radical reading of British Conservatives' fortunes between the wars, exploring how the party adapted to mass democracy after 1918.

Author : N.C. Fleming
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474237864

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Britannia's Zealots, Volume I by N.C. Fleming Pdf

Britannia's Zealots, Volume I opens the first longitudinal study to examine the Conservative Right from the late-19th century to the present day. British Conservatism has always contained a significant section fundamentally opposed to progressive reform. A permanent minority in Parliament, dissident right-wing Conservatives nevertheless had allies in the press and sympathy among grassroots party members enabling them to create crises in the media and at party meetings. N.C. Fleming charts the evolution of reactionary politics from its preoccupation with the Protestant constitution to its fixation with the prestige and strength of Britain's global empire. He examines the overlooked ways in which Conservative Right parliamentarians shaped their party's policies and propaganda, in and out of office, and their relationships with the press and ordinary activists. He seeks to demonstrate that this influence could be circumscribing, and on occasion highly disruptive, with consequences which remain relevant for today's Conservative party. Britannia's Zealots, Volume I will be of great interest to academics and students of British history, right-wing politics, imperialism, and 20th century history.

Author : Stuart Ball,Ian Holliday
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135284978

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Mass Conservatism by Stuart Ball,Ian Holliday Pdf

The papers that comprise this volume reveal how people are intent on preserving not only their wealth but culture too. The individual contributions identify the key arguments used to coax voters, whose natural sympathies might gravitate to the left, to vote for the Conservative Party en masse.

Author : Bernhard Dietz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472570048

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Neo-Tories by Bernhard Dietz Pdf

The danger to British democracy in the interwar period came from a different source to that which has thus far been assumed. It came from a network of radical conservatives who challenged the political system and sought to replace it with an authoritarian corporate state. In this book, Bernhard Dietz provides the first systematic analysis of this network and its members, which are called Neo-Tories. With strong links to the European right, yet a minority back home, this group of British conservatives are all the more fascinating today because it is on their ultimate failure that the success of British democracy rested.