Liberal Party General Election Manifestos, 1900-1997

Liberal Party General Election Manifestos, 1900-1997
Author: Iain Dale
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 0415205913

This volume brings together for the first time the British Liberal Political Party General Election Manifestos, dating back to 1900, and including the most recent General Election manifesto of 1997. The project provides an indispensible source of data about the Liberal Party's political ideologies and policy positions, as well as charting their changes over time. The volume has a new introduction written by Duncan Brack, who is Programmes Director at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He was previously the Policy Director for the Liberal Democrats and editor of the Dictionary of Liberal Biography, published by Politicos in February 1999. In addition to the new introduction, the volume has a comprehensive index, making it easy to use.

Volume Three. Liberal Party General Election Manifestos 1900-1997

Volume Three. Liberal Party General Election Manifestos 1900-1997
Author: Iain Dale
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134625626

This volume brings together for the first time the British Liberal Political Party General Election Manifestos, dating back to 1900, and including the most recent General Election manifesto of 1997. The project provides an indispensible source of data about the Liberal Party's political ideologies and policy positions, as well as charting their changes over time. The volume has a new introduction written by Duncan Brack, who is Programmes Director at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He was previously the Policy Director for the Liberal Democrats and editor of the Dictionary of Liberal Biography, published by Politicos in February 1999. In addition to the new introduction, the volume has a comprehensive index, making it easy to use.

The uneven path of British Liberalism

The uneven path of British Liberalism
Author: Tudor Jones
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2019-09-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 152614302X

This book charts the development of political thought within the British Liberal Party and its successor, the Liberal Democrats. Beginning with Jo Grimond’s rise to the leadership in 1956, it follows the Liberal resurgence in the second half of the twentieth century through to the major setbacks of the 2015 general election and the 2016 referendum on UK membership of the European Union. Drawing on interviews with leading politicians and political thinkers, the book examines Liberal ideas against the background of key historical events and controversies, including the period of coalition government with the Conservatives.

The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929-1964

The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929-1964
Author: Peter Sloman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2015
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0198723504

The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929-1964 explores the reception, generation, and use of economic ideas in the British Liberal Party between its electoral decline in the 1920s and 1930s, and its post-war revival under Jo Grimond. Drawing on archival sources, party publications, and the press, this volume analyses the diverse intellectual influences which shaped British Liberals' economic thought up to the mid-twentieth century, and highlights the ways in which the party sought to reconcile its progressive identity with its longstanding commitment to free trade and competitive markets. Peter Sloman shows that Liberals' enthusiasm for public works and Keynesian economic management - which David Lloyd George launched onto the political agenda at the 1929 general election - was only intermittently matched by support for more detailed forms of state intervention and planning. Likewise, the party's support for redistributive taxation and social welfare provision was frequently qualified by the insistence that the ultimate Liberal aim was not the expansion of the functions of the state but the pursuit of 'ownership for all'. Liberal policy was thus shaped not only by the ideas of reformist intellectuals such as John Maynard Keynes and William Beveridge, but also by the libertarian and distributist concerns of Liberal activists and by interactions with the early neoliberal movement. This study concludes that it was ideological and generational changes in the early 1960s that cut the party's links with the New Right, opened up common ground with revisionist social democrats, and re-established its progressive credentials.

Constitutional Conventions in Westminster Systems

Constitutional Conventions in Westminster Systems
Author: Brian Galligan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2015-08-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1316352420

Conventions are fundamental to the constitutional systems of parliamentary democracies. Unlike the United States which adopted a republican form of government, with a full separation of powers, codified constitutional structures and limitations for executive and legislative institutions and actors, Britain and subsequently Canada, Australia and New Zealand have relied on conventions to perform similar functions. The rise of new political actors has disrupted the stability of the two-party system, and in seeking power the new players are challenging existing practices. Conventions that govern constitutional arrangements in Britain and New Zealand, and the executive in Canada and Australia, are changing to accommodate these and other challenges of modern governance. In Westminster democracies, constitutional conventions provide the rules for forming government; they precede law and make law-making possible. This prior and more fundamental realm of government formation and law making is shaped and structured by conventions.

Governing Metropolitan Transport

Governing Metropolitan Transport
Author: Simone Busetti
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2015-02-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319106597

This book investigates the link between institutions and public policies with specific reference to transport. It opens by examining the main arguments for the establishment of metropolitan transport authorities. The potential impacts of institutional change on the policy efficiency of institutions are then examined. Key problems for institutional designers are identified, showing how they can hamper the achievement of desired policy outcomes through institutional solutions. Two in-depth case studies on institutional change in metropolitan transport (in London and Barcelona) are presented with a view to testing the aforementioned hypotheses and providing insights into the ways in which the two transport institutions were reformed. The concluding chapter identifies lessons for institutional designers and highlights the policy results that may be expected from the constitution of metropolitan transport authorities.

Democratic Drift

Democratic Drift
Author: Matthew Flinders
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2010
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199271593

This book examines the evolution of democracy in the UK since the election of New Labour in 1997. Flinders also explores the trajectory of democracy from 1945 onwards and examines the degree to which recent developments in the UK fit within global democratic trends.

Political Discourse and National Identity in Scotland

Political Discourse and National Identity in Scotland
Author: Murray Stewart Leith
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2012-09-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0748688625

Addresses issues of national identity and nationalism in Scotland from a political and linguistic perspective.

Constitutional Change in the UK

Constitutional Change in the UK
Author: Nigel Forman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134581742

Examines the unprecedented changes to institutions of political power since New Labour's victory, collectively and in detail, placing each in its historical context, analysing solutions and what the future holds for this ambitious reform period.

Using Europe: territorial party strategies in a multi-level system

Using Europe: territorial party strategies in a multi-level system
Author: Eve Hepburn
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2013-07-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1847797644

This book explores how regional political parties use Europe to advance their territorial projects in times of rapid state restructuring. It examines the ways in which decentralization and supranational integration have encouraged regional parties to pursue their strategies across multiple territorial levels. This book constitutes the first attempt to unravel the complexities of how nationalist and statewide parties manoeuvre around the twin issues of European integration and decentralization, and exploit the shifting linkages within multi-level political systems. In a detailed comparative examination of three cases – Scotland, Bavaria and Sardinia – over a thirty-year period, the book explores how integration has altered the nature of territorial party competition and identifies the limits of Europe for territorial projects. In addressing these issues, this work moves beyond present scholarship on multi-level governance to explain the diversity of regional responses to Europe. By providing important new insights and empirical research on the conduct of territorial party politics, and an innovative model of territorial mobilization in Europe, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of comparative politics, European studies, regionalism and federalism, political parties and devolution.