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The Transformation of Urban Liberalism - Party Politics and Urban Governance in Late Nineteenth-Century England (Paperback)
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The Transformation of Urban Liberalism - Party Politics and Urban Governance in Late Nineteenth-Century England (Paperback)
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"The Transformation of Urban Liberalism" re-evaluates the dramatic
and turbulent political decade following the 'Third Reform Act',
and questions whether the Liberal Party's political heartlands -
the urban boroughs - really were in decline. In contrast to some
recent studies, it does not see electoral reform, the Irish Home
Rule crisis and the challenge of socialism as representing a
fundamental threat to the integrity of the party. Instead this book
illustrates, using parallel case studies, how the party gradually
began to transform into a social democratic organisation through a
re-evaluation of its role and policy direction. This process was
not one directed from the centre - despite the important
personalities of Gladstone and Rosebery - but rather one heavily
influenced by 'grass roots politics'. Consequently, it suggests
that late Victorian politics was more democratic and open than
sometimes thought, with leading urban politicians forced to respond
to the demands of party activists. Changes in the structure of
urban rule produced new policy outcomes and brought new
collectivist forms of New Liberalism onto the political agenda.
Thus, it is argued that without the political transformations of
the decade 1885-1895, the radical liberal governments of the
Edwardian era would not have been possible.
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