This engaging and original study, by one of the leading scholars of rational choice theory, explores the course of British parliamentary politics over the last 150 years. It combines social science and analytical narrative history with the great turning points in British politics: the Repeal of the Corn Law; the Victorian crisis of the Liberal and Conservative Parties; the Irish Question and Lloyd George's solution to it; the New Liberal origins of the welfare state; the politics of race and empire under Chamberlain and Powell; and the politics of "there is no alternative" under Margaret Thatcher.…mehr
This engaging and original study, by one of the leading scholars of rational choice theory, explores the course of British parliamentary politics over the last 150 years. It combines social science and analytical narrative history with the great turning points in British politics: the Repeal of the Corn Law; the Victorian crisis of the Liberal and Conservative Parties; the Irish Question and Lloyd George's solution to it; the New Liberal origins of the welfare state; the politics of race and empire under Chamberlain and Powell; and the politics of "there is no alternative" under Margaret Thatcher.
Iain McLean, Professor of Politics, Nuffield College, Oxford University
Inhaltsangabe
* 1: Introduction * 2: Irish Potatoes and British Politics: Peel, Wellington and the Repeal of the Corn Laws * 3: Dishing the Whigs: Disraeli, Salisbury, and the relaunching of the Tory Party 1846--86 * 4: The great Victorian realignment * 5: The failure of imperialism: Joseph Chamberlain and Enoch Powell * 6: Lloyd George: supreme tactician and ambitious strategist * 7: The patriot game: rhetoric and heresthetic in the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations of 1921 * 8: 'There is no alternative': Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair * 9: Conclusion
* 1: Introduction * 2: Irish Potatoes and British Politics: Peel, Wellington and the Repeal of the Corn Laws * 3: Dishing the Whigs: Disraeli, Salisbury, and the relaunching of the Tory Party 1846--86 * 4: The great Victorian realignment * 5: The failure of imperialism: Joseph Chamberlain and Enoch Powell * 6: Lloyd George: supreme tactician and ambitious strategist * 7: The patriot game: rhetoric and heresthetic in the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations of 1921 * 8: 'There is no alternative': Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair * 9: Conclusion
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