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  • Choosing party leaders
    Andrew S. Roe-Crines / Andrew SRoe-Crines / Andrew Denham / Andrew S. Roe-Crines / Peter Dorey
    How political parties choose their leaders, and why they choose the leaders they do, are questions of fundamental importance in contemporary parliamentary democracies. This book examines political leadership selection in the two dominant parties in recent British political history, exploring the criteria and skills needed by political leaders to be chosen by their parties.While...
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    157,29 €

  • Comrades in conflict
    Peter Dorey
    On the 50th anniversary of In Place of Strife, this scholarly study makes extensive use of previously unpublished archival and other primary sources to explain why Harold Wilson and Barbara Castle embarked on legislation to regulate the trade unions and curb strikes, and why this aroused such strong opposition, not just from the unions, but within the Cabinet and among backbenc...
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    36,98 €

  • Comrades in conflict
    Peter Dorey
    On the 50th anniversary of In Place of Strife, this scholarly study makes extensive use of previously unpublished archival and other primary sources to explain why Harold Wilson and Barbara Castle embarked on legislation to regulate the trade unions and curb strikes, and why this aroused such strong opposition, not just from the unions, but within the Cabinet and among backbenc...
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    157,42 €

  • British Conservatism and Trade Unionism, 1945-1964
    Peter Dorey
    This book examines the a brief period between the end of the Second World War and the election of Harold Wilson’s Labour government in 1964, when the Conservative Party adopted a remarkably constructive and conciliatory approach to the trade unions, dubbed ’voluntarism’. During this time the party leadership made strenuous efforts to avoid, as far as was politically possible, c...
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    99,07 €

  • The British Coalition Government, 2010-2015
    Mark Garnett / Peter Dorey
    This book examines theformation and operation of the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalitiongovernment from May 2010 to May 2015. The authors outline the factors thatenabled the union, including economic circumstances, parliamentary politics,the initially amicable relationship established between David Cameron and NickClegg, and the apparent ideological closeness of Conserv...
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    64,45 €

  • The Political Rhetoric and Oratory of Margaret Thatcher
    Andrew S. Crines / Peter Dorey / Timothy Heppell
    This book examines the political oratory, rhetoric and persona of Margaret Thatcher as a means of understanding her justifications for ’Thatcherism’. The main arenas for consideration are set piece speeches to conference, media engagements, and Parliamentary orations. Thatcher’s rhetorical style is analysed through the lens of the Aristotelian modes of persuasion (ethos, pathos...
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    157,05 €

  • Policy Making in Britain
    Peter Dorey
    Covering the 2010 British election and key current issues and debates, this Second Edition takes an empirical approach to introduce students to the theory of and developments in British policy-making. ...
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    75,34 €

  • From Crisis to Coalition
    Mark Garnett / Peter Dorey
    In 2010, the Conservative Party returned to office after over a decade of largely ineffective opposition to New Labour. This book explains why it took so long to recover, and why the party was unable to win an overall majority despite the charismatic leadership of David Cameron. It covers all aspects of Conservative Party politics since 1997. ...
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    65,25 €

  • House of Lords Reform Since 1911
    Alexandra Kelso / Peter Dorey
    This is the first systematic study of the vernacular movement in modern Chinese literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from the perspective of comparative literature. Drawing on the experiences of vernacular movements in other times and societies (Italian, French, German, English, Japanese, Indian, Arabic, Turkish, Vietnamese), and on the concept of wo...
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    65,12 €

  • British Conservatism
    Peter Dorey
    Defence of inequality has always been a core principle of the Conservative Party in Great Britain. Yet the Conservatives have enjoyed great electoral success in a British society marked by widespread inequalities of wealth and income. Peter Dorey here examines the intellectual and political arguments which Conservatives use to justify inequality. He also considers debates betwe...
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    225,97 €

  • British Conservatism and Trade Unionism, 1945-1964
    Peter Dorey
    This book examines the a brief period between the end of the Second World War and the election of Harold Wilson’s Labour government in 1964, when the Conservative Party adopted a remarkably constructive and conciliatory approach to the trade unions, dubbed ’voluntarism’. During this time the party leadership made strenuous efforts to avoid, as far as was politically possible, c...
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    301,98 €

  • The Labour Party and Constitutional Reform
    Peter Dorey
    This book examines the Labour Party’s approach to constitutional reforms in historical context, and how these have been pursued more to ’modernize’ political institutions, rather that radically transform them. Dorey explains the reasons for this constitutional conservatism, and the debates which specific reform proposals have prompted in the Party. ...
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    64,33 €

  • The Labour Governments 1964-1970
    Peter Dorey
    Examining a wide range of political issues and making extensive use of primary sources recently released by the Public Records Office, Peter Dorey presents the most comprehensive, in-depth and original book of the 1964-1970 labour governments published to date. ...
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    301,05 €

  • The Major Premiership
    Peter Dorey
    This book examines the politics and policies of the Major governments from 1990 to 1997. It examines how and why the Major governments sought to reform the civil service, local government, education, social security, and industrial relations, and the extent to which such reform constituted a continuation of Thatcherism. It also considers the problems experienced by John Major i...
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    134,08 €

  • The Major Premiership
    Peter Dorey
    Introduction: John Major: One of Us?; P.Dorey Chaos or Cohesion? John Major and the Parliamentary Conservative Party; P.Cowley A Permanent Revolution in Whitehall: The Major Governments and the Civil Service; K.Theakston Centralization and Fragmentation: John Major and the Reform of Local Government; J.Kingdom A Return to the Philosophy of Consultation? The Major Premiership an...
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    132,55 €

  • The Conservative Party and the Trade Unions
    Peter Dorey
    An examiniation of the attitudes and policies of the Conservative party towards the trade unions from the mid 19th century, linking these to wider political circumstances and exploring the key personalities involved. ...
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    82,94 €