Rational Choice and British Politics

An Analysis of Rhetoric and Manipulation from Peel to Blair

AvIain McLean

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

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This engaging and original study, by one of Britain's leading scholars of rational choice theory, explores the course of British parliamentary politics over the last 150 years. McLean marries an appealing combination of social science and analytical narrative history to the great turning points in British politics - the Repeal of the Corn Law; the Victorian crisis of the Liberal and Conservative Parties; the Irish Question and Lloyd George's solution to it; the New Liberal origins of the welfare state; the politics of race and empire under Chamberlain and Powell; and the politics of 'there is no alternative' under Margaret Thatcher.

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Utgivningsdatum:2001-04-05
Mått:162 x 242 x 19 mm
Vikt:526 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198295303

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Iain McLean, Professor of Politics, Nuffield College, Oxford University

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McLean's research is excellent, his writing is polished and witty, and his cases are well selected to cover some of the truly fascinating moments of British politics ... From a scholarly perspective, there are some novel and interesting parts to McLean's work.

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1. Introduction ; 2. Irish Potatoes and British Politics: Peel, Wellington and the Repeal of the Corn Laws ; 3. Dishing the Whigs: Disraeli, Salisbury, and the relaunching of the Tory Party 1846-86 ; 4. The great Victorian realignment ; 5. The failure of imperialism: Joseph Chamberlain and Enoch Powell ; 6. Lloyd George: supreme tactician and ambitious strategist ; 7. The patriot game: rhetoric and heresthetic in the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations of 1921 ; 8. 'There is no alternative': Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair ; 9. Conclusion