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Gender and the Liberal Democrats
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ISBN: 1781702276 1847794114 9781847794116 9781781702277 0719083478 9780719083471 1847797873 Year: 2011 Publisher: Manchester Manchester University Press

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Women and the Liberal Democrats is a timely and original exploration of women's representation and the third party in UK politics. Based on extensive research, it is the first comprehensive gendered analysis of the Liberal Democrats and the research highlights specific institutional factors within the Liberal Democrats that directly impact upon the party's low number of women MPs. It explores the extent to which the party's ideology, culture and organisation are dominated by a prevailing masculine bias and questions why the Liberal Democrats continue to overwhelmingly return white, middle-aged


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Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats
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ISBN: 1781702020 1847794637 9781847794369 184779436X 9781781702024 9781847794635 0719082536 9780719082535 0719088992 1847795986 Year: 2011 Publisher: Manchester

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Richard Wainwright, the Liberals and Liberal Democrats: Unfinished Business offers new research on familiar themes involving loyalties of politics, faith and locality. Richard Wainwright was a Liberal MP for seventeen years during the Party's recovery, but his life tells us about much more than this. Wainwright grew up in prosperity, but learned from voluntary work about poverty; he refused to fight in World War Two, but saw war at its cruellest; he joined the Liberal Party when most had given up on it, but gave his fortune to it; lost a by-election but caused the only Labour loss in Harold Wi


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Defectors and the Liberal Party 1910-2010
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ISBN: 1526130815 9781526130815 Year: 2017 Publisher: MANCHESTER MANCHESTER UNIV Press

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This book is the first analysis of political defections over a long time span. It investigates all the Liberal/Liberal Democrat MPs and former MPs who defected from the party between the elections of December 1910 and May 2010 - around one sixth of all those elected - as well as the smaller number of inward defectors. Each of the 122 defections was an expert judgment on the state of the party at a specific date. The research investigates the timing and reasons for all the defections and reveals long-term trends and underlying causes and apportions responsibility between leaders for them. The author finds some significant differences which distinguished defectors from loyalists and draws wider conclusions about the underlying factors which lead MPs to defect. This book will be of interest to students and lecturers of British politics and anyone interested in the relationship between British political parties in the last century.


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Reginald McKenna : financier among statesmen, 1863-1916
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ISBN: 0203498240 1135776601 0714650471 9780714650470 9780203498248 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York ; London : Routledge,

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Reginald McKenna has never been the subject of scholarly attention. This was partly due to his own preference for appearing at the periphery of events even when ostensibly at the centre, and the absence of a significant collection of private papers. This new book redresses the neglect of this major statesmen and financier partly through the natural advance of historical research, and partly by the discoveries of missing archival material. McKenna's role is now illuminated by his own reflections, and by the correspondence of friends and colleagues, including Asquith, Churchill, Keynes, Baldwin, Bonar Law, MacDonald, and Chamberlain. McKenna's presence at the hub of political life in the first half of the century is now clear: in the radical Liberal governments of 1905–16, where he acted as a lightning conductor for the party; during the war, where he served as the Prime Minister's deputy and the principal voice for restraint in the conduct of the war; and as chairman of the world's largest bank, where until his death in office aged eighty, he prompted progressive policies to deal with the issues of war debt, trade, mass unemployment, and the return to gold.

The British Liberal Tradition
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ISBN: 1281996092 9786611996093 1442680571 9781442680579 0802084540 9780802084545 Year: 2001 Publisher: Toronto

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"In this wide ranging lecture, Lord Roy Jenkins tells the story of the rise and fall of the British Liberal Party under prime ministers Gladstone, Churchill, Asquith, and Lloyd George, and explores the place of current British prime minister Tony Blair in this tradition. Beginning his address with the Liberal Party's birth in London in 1859, Lord Jenkins discusses the relative success of these prime ministers in dealing with social issues, such as religion and suffrage, and aspects of government legislation including education, foreign policy, and the military. He punctuates this analysis with his views on the personalities of these men, recognizing that the character of leaders naturally shapes their leadership. Of William Ewart Gladstone, for example, Lord Jenkins notes that, while he was 'not necessarily the greatest prime minister, ' Gladstone was 'certainly the most remarkable specimen of humanity ever to inhabit 10 Downing Street.'"--Jacket.


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The great melding
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ISBN: 0817388141 9780817388140 9780817318666 0817318666 Year: 2015 Publisher: Tuscaloosa

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Audacious in its scope, subtle in its analysis, and persuasive in its arguments, The Great Melding is the second book in Glenn Feldman's magisterial recounting of the South's transformation from a Reconstruction-era citadel of Democratic Party inertia to a cauldron of GOP agitation. In this pioneering study, Feldman shows how the transitional years after World War II, the Dixiecrat episode, and the early 1950's formed a pivotal sequence of events that altered America's political landscape in profound, fundamental, and unexpected ways. Feldman's landmark work The Irony of the Solid South dismantle


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Grant Notley, the social conscience of Alberta
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ISBN: 1772121282 1772121266 9781772121285 9781772121261 9781772121278 1772121274 9781772121254 Year: 2015 Publisher: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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Biography of Grant Notley, leader of Alberta's New Democratic Party from 1968 to 1984.


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A history of the Scottish Liberals and Liberal Democrats
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ISBN: 1399506404 1399506412 1399506382 Year: 2023 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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The Scottish Liberal Party was the dominant party of Victorian Scotland. While its electoral fortunes declined with the rise of the Labour and (Scottish) Unionist parties during the 1920s, it remained a significant 'third' force in an increasingly crowded 'Scottish political system', particularly during the latter half of the 20th century. This was especially true following its 1988 merger with the Social Democratic Party to form the Scottish Liberal Democrats, when it helped shape the modern devolution settlement via the Scottish Constitutional Convention. This book examines both parties via a chronological presentation of their histories.


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The British Coalition Government, 2010-2015 : A Marriage of Inconvenience
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ISBN: 1137023759 1137023775 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book examines the formation and operation of the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government from May 2010 to May 2015. The authors outline the factors that enabled the union, including economic circumstances, parliamentary politics, the initially amicable relationship established between David Cameron and Nick Clegg, and the apparent ideological closeness of Conservative modernisers and Orange Book Liberal Democrats. The authors then analyse how these factors shaped the policy agenda pursued over the five years, including the issues of deficit reduction, public sector reform, and welfare reduction, before discussing the tensions that developed as a result of these decisions. Ultimately, relations between the coalition partners steadily became less amicable and more acrimonious, as mutual respect gave way to mutual recrimination.


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Die Politik der Echokammer : Wisconsin und die ideologische Polarisierung der USA
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ISBN: 3839436079 3837636070 Year: 2016 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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In den USA stehen sich heute zwei politische Lager - Demokraten und Republikaner, Liberale und Konservative - in existenzieller Feindschaft gegenüber. Doch was erklärt den tiefen ideologischen Graben, der das Land durchzieht? In seinem Buch zeigt Torben Lütjen, wie die USA in ein Land politischer Echokammern zerfielen: virtuelle und soziale Räume, die vor allem von Gleichgesinnten bevölkert werden und sich durch das Fehlen von Widerspruch ideologisch radikalisiert haben. Der Blick geht dabei vor allem nach Wisconsin, in den Mittleren Westen der USA: Hier verkörpert sich in zwei extremen Parteihochburgen von Demokraten und Republikanern paradigmatisch der Konflikt, der die modernen USA prägt. »Das Buch zeichnet sich durch sprachliche Klarheit und Präzision aus. Lütjen analysiert auf hohem wissenschaftlichen Niveau, ohne sich in Fachjargon zu verfangen. Ein gelungenes Buch, welches die politische Entwicklung in den USA nachvollziehbar erklärt und informativ beleuchtet. Ein Buch für ein breites Publikum, welches sich für die Entwicklung der us-amerikanischen Politik interessiert.« Jan Rebuschat, www.freitag.de, 26.10.2016 Besprochen in: Portal für Politikwissenschaft, 08.02.2017, Natalie Wohlleben

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