"This book makes a major contribution to our knowledge of the forces shaping Conservative policy-making as the Empire drew to a close. In examining Conservative backbench debate on European integration and British relations in the Middle East between 1948 and 1957, the author as…
What do we really mean when we say a political party has changed? And exactly what is it that drives that change? Political scientists working in the comparative tradition have come up with a general explanation that revolves around the role of election defeats and loss of offic…
"Thatcherism produced dramatic changes in most aspects of public life, both in Britain and abroad. Thatcher and Thatcherism surveys the origins and impact of Thatcherism as a cultural construct and an economic creed. Centering on the career of Margaret Thatcher, the author argue…
"The essays in this volume explore the relationship between the Conservative Party and the mass of the British people from the 1880s to the Thatcher and Major era. Several focus upon the party's sources of support and the ways in which it has sought to broaden these through shif…
"The essays in this volume explore the relationship between the Conservative Party and the mass of the British people from the 1880s to the Thatcher and Major era. Several focus upon the party's sources of support and the ways in which it has sought to broaden these through shif…
