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Statesmanship and Party Government (Paperback)
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Statesmanship and Party Government (Paperback)
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In this incisive look at early modern views of party politics,
Harvey C. Mansfield examines the pamphlet war between Edmund Burke
and the followers of Henry St. John, First Viscount Bolingbroke
during the mid-eighteenth century. In response to works by
Bolingbroke published posthumously, Burke created his most eloquent
advocacy of the party system. Taking an interdisciplinary approach
to the material, Mansfield shows that present-day parties must be
understood in the light of the history of party government. The
complicated organization and the public actions of modern parties
are the result, he contends, and not the cause of a great change in
opinion about parties. Mansfield points out that while parties have
always existed, the party government that we know today is possible
only because parties are now considered respectable. In Burke's
day, however, they were thought by detractors to be a cancer in a
free polity. Burke, however, was an early champion of the party
system in Britain and made his arguments with a clear-eyed realism.
In "Statesmanship and Party Government", Mansfield provides a
skillful evaluation of Burke's writings and sheds light on
present-day party politics.
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