Author: William John WilkinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Tory Democracy
Author: William John WilkinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Toryism and the Tory Democracy
Author: Standish O'GradyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Tory Democracy and Conservative Policy
Author: Plain ToryPublisher: London : Swan Sonnenschein & Company
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Tory Democracy
Author: Bernard BrainePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authoritarianism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy
Author: Daniel ZiblattPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521172998
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
How do democracies form and what makes them die? Daniel Ziblatt revisits this timely and classic question in a wide-ranging historical narrative that traces the evolution of modern political democracy in Europe from its modest beginnings in 1830s Britain to Adolf Hitler's 1933 seizure of power in Weimar Germany. Based on rich historical and quantitative evidence, the book offers a major reinterpretation of European history and the question of how stable political democracy is achieved. The barriers to inclusive political rule, Ziblatt finds, were not inevitably overcome by unstoppable tides of socioeconomic change, a simple triumph of a growing middle class, or even by working class collective action. Instead, political democracy's fate surprisingly hinged on how conservative political parties - the historical defenders of power, wealth, and privilege - recast themselves and coped with the rise of their own radical right. With striking modern parallels, the book has vital implications for today's new and old democracies under siege.
Cross and Tory Democracy
Author: Dennis J. MitchellPublisher: Garland Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Conservative Party
Author: Tim BalePublisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745648584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
The Conservatives are back - but what took them so long? Why did the world's most successful political party dump Margaret Thatcher only to commit electoral suicide under John Major? Just as importantly, what stopped the Tories getting their act together until David Cameron came along? The answers are as intriguing as the questions.
The End of Representative Politics
Author: Simon TormeyPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745690513
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Representative politics is in crisis. Trust in politicians is at an all-time low. Fewer people are voting or joining political parties, and our interest in parliamentary politics is declining fast. Even oppositional and radical parties that should be benefitting from public disenchantment with politics are suffering. But different forms of political activity are emerging to replace representative politics: instant politics, direct action, insurgent politics. We are leaving behind traditional representation, and moving towards a politics without representatives. In this provocative new book, Simon Tormey explores the changes that are underway, drawing on a rich range of examples from the Arab Spring to the Indignados uprising in Spain, street protests in Brazil and Turkey to the emergence of new initiatives such as Anonymous and Occupy. Tormey argues that the easy assumptions that informed our thinking about the nature and role of parties, and ‘party based democracy’ have to be rethought. We are entering a period of fast politics, evanescent politics, a politics of the street, of the squares, of micro-parties, pop-up parties, and demonstrations. This may well be the end of representative politics as we know it, but an exciting new era of political engagement is just beginning.
Disraeli and Victorian Conservatism
Author: Terence Andrew JenkinsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780333643426
Category : Conservatism
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, remains one of the most fascinating and enigmatic figures in British political history. He was the romantic radical, who went on to lead the Conservative party; the urban, middle class Jew, who identified himself with a ruling elite based on the aristocracy, land and Anglicanism. This study of Disraeli seeks to provide a balanced coverage of the whole of his career, giving equal weight to the long period spent as leader of the opposition, as well as examining his rise to the Conservative leadership and his subsequent record as Prime Minister. An assessment is offered of Disraeli's contribution to the late-Victorian Conservative party's political ascendancy, and in particular to its image as the 'national' party.
Author: E.M. ABDY-WILLIAMS