Matt Beech, Kevin Hickson

Gebundenes Buch

The Idea of the Good Society

Essays in Honour of Raymond Plant

Beschreibung

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the political thought and practice of Raymond Plant (Professor Lord Plant of Highfield) and celebrates the three aspects of his public life which speak to his idea of the good society: scholarship, politics, and civil society.

Autor

Matt Beech is reader in politics and director of the Centre for British Politics at the University of Hull and IES Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley. He publishes on Conservative and Labour history and ideas and is researching a monograph on the Culture Wars. His most recent book is the co-edited volume with Simon Lee, Conservative Governments in the Age of Brexit (Palgrave Macmillan 2023). He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and associate member of the Centre de Recherches en Civilisation Britannique at the Sorbonne Nouvelle. He has held visiting appointments at Oxford, Berkeley, and Flinders. Kevin Hickson is senior lecturer in British Politics at the University of Liverpool where he has worked for 20 years. He writes extensively on British politics, political history, and ideologies. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His publications include Britain's Conservative Right since 1945: Traditional Toryism in a Cold Climate and Peter Shore: Labour's Forgotten Patriot. He is currently writing a political and intellectual biography of Douglas Jay.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 177mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9780198872481
• ISBN-10: 0198872488
• Artikelnr.: 73519820