British Political Parties

Author : Justin Fisher
Publisher : Prentice Hall PTR
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015038555978

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British Political Parties by Justin Fisher Pdf

An up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to the development and organization of political parties in Britian and their role in British political life. For each of the three major British parties, Fisher provides details of the organization, internal elections, funding, ideology, groups and factions, details of the backgrounds of their Mps and candidates and an account of their recent history. Similar details are also provided for other parties in the British political system, no tably nationalist parties. These details are set in context with an overview of the development of the British party system and an analysis of the role parties play in contemporary British politics." Looks at the make-up of party membership and party electoral performance. An appendix details British and European election results. British PoliticsA Harvester Wheatsheaf Book.

Author : David Boothroyd
Publisher : Politico's Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050694903

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Politico's Guide to the History of British Political Parties by David Boothroyd Pdf

A brief history of more than 250 parties who have contested parliamentary elections since 1832, along with details of contact information and electoral performance.

Author : Stephen Ingle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134126668

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The British Party System by Stephen Ingle Pdf

The history of British political parties tells of change and continuity. But, how and why? This textbook continues to provide the best introduction currently available on the British political party system, explaining the history, structure, actors and policies of both the main political parties and the minor parties. Substantially revised and updated, this fourth edition contains new material on the: political party system in post-devolution Scotland and Wales media and political parties emergence of minor parties onto the British political landscape replacement of party ideology with political pragmatism. Stephen Ingle argues that in order to meet formidable national and international challenges the British party system is once more in need of fundamental change, to a less confrontational style of politics. The British Party System is the ideal book for students of British politics wanting a topical and accessible text on political parties in the UK.

Author : Roger Awan-Scully
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785903632

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The End of British Party Politics? by Roger Awan-Scully Pdf

Elections ask voters to choose between political parties. But voters across the UK are increasingly being presented with fundamentally different, and largely disconnected, sets of political choices. This book is about this hollowing out of a genuinely British democratic politics: how and why it has occurred, and why it matters. Electoral choices across Britain became increasingly differentiated along national lines over much of the last half-century. In 2017, for the second general election in a row, four different parties came first in the UK's four nations. UK voters are increasingly faced with general election campaigns that are largely disconnected from each other. At the same time, voters acquire much of their information about the election from news-media based in London that display little understanding of these national distinctions. The UK continues to elect representatives to a single parliament. But the shared debates and sets of choices that tie a political community together are increasingly absent. Separate national political arenas and agendas still have to interact but in some respects the House of Commons increasingly resembles the European Parliament – whose members are democratically chosen but from a disconnected series of separate national electoral contests. This is deeply problematic for the long-term unity and integrity of the UK.

Author : Robert Garner,Richard Kelly
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0719051053

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British Political Parties Today by Robert Garner,Richard Kelly Pdf

This important new book, one of the first to reflect the 1997 election result and its effects, reassesses the major political parties in Britain--their ideals, organizations, finances, electoral prospects and the effect they have upon British society. The authors begin by clarifying the functions of political parties, before examining their policies and the extent to which there is a consensus in modern British politics. The shifting nature of Britain's party system is then dissected, before a much closer look is taken at the structure, leadership and membership of Britain's three major parties. A separate chapter also inspects the parties of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, offering a fresh perspective on their priorities and internal organization. Although the book has a strong historical content, it also takes a sharp look at British politics under the new Labor government, while considering the state of the Tory party under William Hague. The likely effect of a more intrusive European Union is also embraced.

Author : Paul Webb,Tim Bale
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780199217236

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The Modern British Party System by Paul Webb,Tim Bale Pdf

This new edition provides comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the variety of party systems found at central, devolved and local levels in British politics.

Author : Jennifer Lees-Marshment
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0719060176

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Political Marketing and British Political Parties by Jennifer Lees-Marshment Pdf

Demonstrates how British political parties have begun to use comprehensive political marketing in order to gain electoral success. They conduct focus groups and opinion polls in an attempt to elicit what voters want from them and then try to adjust their behaviors accordingly...

Author : Anthony Seldon,Gerard Daly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X001735988

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UK Political Parties Since 1945 by Anthony Seldon,Gerard Daly Pdf

Author : Stephen Driver
Publisher : Polity
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745640785

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Understanding British Party Politics by Stephen Driver Pdf

`This is an excellent text which charts a safe path for students through the minefield that is contemporary British party politics in a wonderfully efficient yet engaging way.'---Colin Hay, University Of Sheffield --

Author : Stephen Ingle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134126675

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The British Party System by Stephen Ingle Pdf

Substantially revised and updated, this textbook continues to provide the best introduction currently available on the British Political Party system, explaining the history, structure, actors and policies of both the main political parties and the minor parties.

Author : Domenico Maria Bruni
Publisher : Springer
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137314710

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The British Political Parties and the Falklands War by Domenico Maria Bruni Pdf

This book explores and reconstructs how the principal parliamentary parties in Britain confronted and responded to events that unfolded during the Falklands War in the spring of 1982. The author begins by situating the Falklands Crisis within the wider context of the breakup of the British Empire and discusses the fluid political situation in Parliament at the time. Following this, the book examines in detail each of the parties – the Conservative Party, the Labour Party and the SDP-Liberal Alliance – and their actions during the crisis. The chapters focus on each party in turn and follow a chronological narrative to reconcile the evolution of the diplomatic and military picture with the internal political one.

Author : Alan R. Ball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012163591

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British Political Parties by Alan R. Ball Pdf

Author : Tim Bale,Paul Webb,Monica Poletti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351400220

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Footsoldiers: Political Party Membership in the 21st Century by Tim Bale,Paul Webb,Monica Poletti Pdf

This accessible, rigorously researched and highly revealing book lifts the lid on political party membership. It represents the first in-depth study of six of the UK's biggest parties – Labour, the Conservatives, the Scottish National Party, the Liberal Democrats, UK Independence Party and the Greens – carried out simultaneously, thereby providing invaluable new insights into members' social characteristics, attitudes, activities and campaigning, reasons for joining and leaving, and views on how their parties should be run and who should represent them. In short, at a time of great pressure on, and change across parties, this book helps us discover not only what members want out of their parties but what parties want out of their members. This text is essential reading for those interested in political parties, party membership, elections and campaigning, representation, and political participation, be they scholars and students of British and comparative politics, or politicians, journalists and party members – in short, anyone who cares about the future of representative democracy.

Author : Robert C. Self
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317877820

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Evolution of the British Party System by Robert C. Self Pdf

By the end of the nineteenth century, reform and development of the British electoral system had inaugurated a new style of mass politics which fundamentally transformed the face of the British party system. This book traces the evolution of recognisably modern parties from their roots in the 1880s through half a century of dramatic change in organisational structure, electoral competition and constitutional thought. In the House of Commons the Labour Party replaced the Liberals as the radical answer to the Conservative Party. In the country at large the complex web of Victorian social, regional and religious allegiances gave way to a cruder but more dynamic model of modern political loyalties. The transformation at Westminster and in the constituencies is surveyed in relation to changes to the franchise (including the vote for women), class consciousness, political organisation and doctrine. The comprehensive account explains the varying fortunes of the parties in the face of mass democracy, collectivism, the First World War and economic uncertainty. It also provides a critical insight into the debates and conflicts of interpretation which surround this pivotal period in British political history.

Author : Sarah Childs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134211579

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Women and British Party Politics by Sarah Childs Pdf

Women and British Party Politics examines the characteristics of women’s participation at the mass and elite level in contemporary British politics; as voters, party members and elected representatives respectively. It explores what this means for ideas about, and the practice of, descriptive, substantive and symbolic representation. The main focus is on the feminization of British party politics - the integration of women into formal political institutions and the integration of women’s concerns and perspectives into political debate and policy - in the post-1997 period. Not only specifically designed to bring together cutting-edge conceptual developments in the sub-discipline of gender and politics, with robust British empirical research, this book also presents reflections on how best to study gender and politics. The empirical findings which are presented through the extensive use of case studies derive from a range of research projects which were undertaken over a period of ten years, and which make use of a variety of research methods and techniques. This book will appeal to all those with an interest in British Politics, Feminism and European Studies; and will provide the reader with an overview of the complex relationship between sex, gender and politics in a conceptually sophisticated fashion.