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Languages : en
Pages : 19
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The Labour Party - the Crisis- and the Nation. By a Labour Candidate. (1924-1931).
Author: The Labour Party
Author: Godfrey Elton Baron EltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 19
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The Labour Party, the Crisis, and the Nation
Author: Labour CandidatePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 19
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The Labour Party in Crisis
Author: Paul WhiteleyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429831838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
First published in 1983. This study draws upon empirical findings on party activists, members and voters. It examines the origins and nature of Labour’s crisis in the 1980s, showing how the split leading to the formation of the SDP was merely a manifestation of deeply rooted problems which went back many years. It argues that this crisis had three distinct but interrelated aspects: first, the ideological schism within the party, which had grown in intensity over time; second, the electoral crisis, which produced the worst electoral performance at the 1983 general election since 1918; and, third, the membership crisis arising from the fact that the party had been losing more than 11,000 individual members per year on average since 1945. Using elite and mass surveys the book demonstrates the link between these crises and Labour’s policy performance in office set against a background of rapid economic decline.
The Labour Party, the Crisis, and the Nation
Author: The Labour Party, Nationalism and Internationalism, 1939-1951
Author: R. M. DouglasPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714655239
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Second World War was a watershed moment in foreign policy for the Labour Party in Britain. Before the war, British socialists had held that nationalism was becoming obsolete and that humanity was steadily evolving towards the ideal of a single world government. The collapse of the League of Nations destroyed this optimistic vision, compelling Labour to undertake a fundamental review of its entire approach to foreign affairs during a period of unprecedented global crisis. This book traces the controversy that ensued, as the British democratic left set about the task of defining the principles of a radically new international system for the postwar world. The schemes proposed by Labour policymakers during these years encompassed a wide variety of political institutions aiming at the restraint or supersession of the sovereign nation-state. What they shared in common, however, was a reconceptualization of British identity, in which the hyper-patriotism of the wartime period blended with the left's traditional internationalism. This new 'muscular' internationalism was to have a major impact upon the evolution of entities as diverse as the United Nations Organizations, the British Commonwealth and the accelerating campaign in favor of European unity after Labour assumed the reins of government in 1945. Breaking with the traditional accounts that place Cold War tensions at the centre of the Attlee government's activities in the immediate postwar years, R.M. Douglas's book provides an entirely new framework for reassessing British foreign policy and left-wing concepts of national identity during the most turbulent moment of Britain's modern history. This book will be essential reading for all students and researchers of British foreign policy, the Labour Party and international relations.
Inside the Room
Author: Eamon GilmorePublisher: Merrion Press
ISBN: 1785370456
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
March 2011: Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore have just formed a coalition government between Fine Gael and Labour. Ireland’s banks are broken, unemployment is heading for half a million, the public finances are in deficit, international lenders rate Ireland as ‘junk’ and the country is in an IMF bailout. As Tánaiste in the new Coalition, Eamon Gilmore was at the heart of every major economic decision taken during his term, and as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade was primarily responsible for restoring Ireland’s international reputation and trade connections. In his extraordinary political memoir of these dramatic and turbulent times, Eamon Gilmore writes frankly about the political price the Labour Party has paid for some of their choices, reflects on the circumstances that led to his own resignation and assesses the prospects for Ireland’s continued recovery, including the risks which could yet blow Ireland’s economy off course.
Let Us Work Together
Author: Labour Party (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Campaign literature
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Crisis in Britain
Author: Robert Alexander BradyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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The Politics of Crisis
Author: G. FryPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230628117
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
The Politics of Crisis is an interpretation of the most dramatic periods of modern British political history - the decade and a half between 1931 and 1945. Formed to sustain the British economy in the midst of the Great Depression, the National Governments of the 1930s achieved this and more, and electoral popularity unmatched since. Yet the conventional wisdom about those Governments is full of the unemployment that they inherited, as it is of the image of Neville Chamberlain trying and failing to buy peace from Hitler at Munich. For then comes the Second World War and Winston Churchill and victory of a kind for Britain, and a curious form of domestic politics that, with peace restored, witnesses the victor turned out of office. The Politics of Crisis clinically assesses the evidence and these events and provides a challenging and new interpretation of them.