The End of British Party Politics? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The End of British Party Politics? write by Roger Awan-Scully. This book was released on 2018-04-05. The End of British Party Politics? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
British Party Politics and Ideology after New Labour
British Party Politics and Ideology after New Labour - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook British Party Politics and Ideology after New Labour write by S. Griffiths. This book was released on 2009-11-18. British Party Politics and Ideology after New Labour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. British Party Politics and Ideology after New Labour brings together academics and politicians to debate the intellectual roots of the ideas that currently drive the main UK political parties. With major players responding to the arguments raised in each chapter, the book will be a must-read for anyone interested in or teaching British politics.
The End of British Politics?
The End of British Politics? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The End of British Politics? write by Michael Moran. This book was released on 2017-02-08. The End of British Politics? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the crisis of the British state. Though it has been particularly apparent since the outcome of both the 2014 Scottish independence and 2016 ‘Brexit’ referendums, it stems from deep historical roots. The book traces the origins of the state to the original Act of Union of 1707 and demonstrates how different notions of British destiny - Protestant, imperial, social democratic – have held the state together at different times. The present crisis, it is argued, is due to the exhaustion of these senses of destiny. Moran shows how the United Kingdom is now held together as a militarised state prone to disastrous adventures like the invasion of Iraq, and concludes by examining some alternative futures for the state. This book will appeal to students, scholars and the general reader interested in British politics and political history.
Thatcherism and British Politics
Thatcherism and British Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thatcherism and British Politics write by Dennis Kavanagh. This book was released on 1990. Thatcherism and British Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Margaret Thatcher is the only 20th-century prime minister to have given her name to a style as well as a doctrine. Although the final balance sheet of the successes and failures of Thatcherism is yet to be tallied, this book places the government of Mrs. Thatcher in the perspective of postwar British politics. Here, Kavanagh describes how a postwar political consensus--covering full employment, welfare, conciliation of the trade unions, a mixed economy with state intervention, and social engineering--was established with the support of dominant groups in the Conservative and Labour parties. He then shows how that settlement broke down in the face of economic problems, changes in policies and personnel in the main parties, and the challenge to the intellectual bases of the consensus mounted by groups on the New Right. The book concludes with an insightful analysis of the government's record, and of prospects for a new consensus. Mrs. Thatcher has cited the breaking of the consensus as one of her primary political objectives, and in this penetrating study she emerges both as the architect of the collapse of consensus and as its product.
The End of Politics
The End of Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The End of Politics write by Alexander Lee. This book was released on 2006. The End of Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 2005 general election revealed the emergence of a new and more volatile electorate and signalled the collapse of traditional voting patterns in British politics. This book traces the impact of this radical shift and examines the often confused reactions of political parties struggling to adjust to unfamiliar and unpredictable circumstances.
