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1 online resource (462 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Notes and references; 2. Development of the electoral system before 1914; 2.1 The Franchise and Redistribution Acts, 1884-1885; 2.2 The elimination of corruption and intimidation; 2.3 The franchise in Britain after 1885: 'Democracy tempered by registration'; Notes and references; 3. The rise of modern party organisation; 3.1 Extra-parliamentary organisation; 3.2 Linking the grassroots to the leaders: the National Union and the Liberal caucus |
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3.3 The emergence of a central party bureaucracy3.4 Discipline and control in the parliamentary parties; 3.5 The rise of national campaigning, manifestos and programmatic politics; Notes and references; 4. Party realignment and Unionist ascendancy, 1885-1905; 4.1 Gladstonian Liberalism and the schism of 1886; 4.2 Liberal malaise, 1886-1902; 4.3 Liberals, Labour and the birth of the Progressive Alliance; 4.4 Lord Salisbury and the Unionist alliance; 4.5 Unionist decline and Liberal revival, 1900-1906; Notes and references; 5. The challenge of New Liberalism, 1906-1914 |
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5.1 The reformulation of Liberalism5.2 The conversion of the Liberal party; 5.3 Liberals and the politics of taxation; 5.4 Unionist crisis and the politics of taxation, 1906-1910; 5.5 Labour, the Progressive Alliance and the New Liberalism; 5.6 Rumours of a 'Strange Death', 1910-1914; 5.7 The electorate and the New Liberalism; 5.8 Conclusion: the significance of the New Liberalism; Notes and references; 6. War and the party system; 6.1 Liberalism divided; 6.2 Liberal ideology and the strains of war; 6.3 Conservatism and the challenge of war |
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6.4 Collapse of the Progressive Alliance and Labour's bid for independence6.5 Labour, 'socialism' and the impact of war; 6.6 The 'coupon' election of December 1918; Notes and references; 7. The Lloyd George Coalition, 1918-1922; 7.1 The impact of Labour; 7.2 Coalition, reconstruction and resistance to socialism; 7.3 Slump and the destruction of 'national unity'; 7.4 Anti-socialist 'fusion' and the realignment of the centre-right; 7.5 The fall of the Coalition; Notes and references; 8. Three-party confusion in the 1920s; 8.1 Explanations for party realignment |
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8.2 The 'franchise factor' and the Fourth Reform Act of 19188.3 The organisational factor in Labour rise and Liberal decline; 8.4 Labour, Liberals and the battle of ideas; 8.5 The impact of the first Labour government; 8.6 The foundations of Conservative electoral hegemony; 8.7 The 1929 election: the end of the three-party era; Notes and references; 9. The National Governments; 9.1 The party crisis, 1929-1931; 9.2 The political crisis and the National Government; 9.3 The character of the National Government; 9.4 The collapse of independent Liberalism |
| Summary |
By the end of the nineteenth century, reform and development of the British electoral system had inaugurated a new style of mass politics which fundamentally transformed the face of the British party system. This book traces the evolution of recognisably modern parties from their roots in the 1880s through half a century of dramatic change in organisational structure, electoral competition and constitutional thought. In the House of Commons the Labour Party replaced the Liberals as the radical answer to the Conservative Party. In the country at large the complex web of Victorian social, reg |
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9.5 Labour responses to 1931: leadership, power and organisation |
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Print version record |
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Political parties -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Political parties -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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Political parties
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317877820 |
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1317877829 |
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