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The Conservatives since 1945 - The Drivers of Party Change (Hardcover)
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The Conservatives since 1945 - The Drivers of Party Change (Hardcover)
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What do we really mean when we say a political party has changed?
And exactly what is it that drives that change? Political
scientists working in the comparative tradition have come up with a
general explanation that revolves around the role of election
defeats and loss of office, and around changes of leader and
factions. But how well does that explanation cope when subjected to
a historically-grounded and therefore robust examination? This book
tries to answer that question by subjecting the common wisdom to a
real-world, over-time test using one of the world's oldest and most
successful political parties as an in-depth case study. What do the
periods spent in both opposition and government by the British
Conservatives since 1945 tell us about what drives parties to
change their sales-force, the way they organize, and the policies
they come up with? Using internal papers, memos and minutes of
meetings from party archives, along with historical and
contemporary accounts, memoirs and interviews, this book maps the
extent of change and then explores what may have driven it. The
conventional wisdom, it turns out, is not necessarily wrong but
incomplete, requiring both qualification and supplementation. This
approachably-written book suggests when, how, and why. Along the
way, it provides a fresh and comprehensive account of the
Conservative Party that should appeal equally to those interested
in political history and those interested in political science.
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