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"Women, Identity and Private Life in Britain, 1900-50" explores the
meanings and experience of home and private life for women who grew
up before 1950. It considers the extent to which class,
suburbanisation and historical moment as well as gender constructed
women's understanding of domesticity, and discusses the part played
by conceptions of home and private life in the shaping of
identities. Oral narratives, fiction, autobiography and diaries are
used in conjunction with psychoanalytic, linguistic and historical
explanations of women's lives to map a psychological as well as a
social history of women's relationship to the home in the early
part of this century.
The book argues that while historically specific conceptions of
sexual difference were significant in shaping women's understanding
and experience of their lives, equally important were the social,
cultural and psychological divisions articulated around suburbia,
domestic service and aspirations of respectability. By deploying a
diverse range of sources, the author concludes that to understand
women's relation to the domestic and to the idea of the 'private'
requires an approach which encompasses a variety of disciplines and
perspectives - perspectives which include environment, class and
generation as well as gender.
This textbook provides students of US Politics with an informed
scholarly analysis of recent developments in the American political
environment, using historical background to contextualize
contemporary issues. As the ninth edition, this book reviews a time
of political controversy in the United States, touching on topics
such as gender, economic policy, gun control, immigration, the
media, healthcare, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the widespread social
protests against police brutality. The book looks both backwards to
Trump's presidency and forward to Biden's. Ultimately, the editors
and contributors evaluate the significance of these events on the
future of American politics, providing a perspective that is at
once broad and meticulous.
One of the most profound changes in British public life over the
last twenty years has been the increasing concern with probity and
standards. Some of that concern has been the product of scandals
such as the cash for questions affair and the expenses scandal;
some of it reflects the erosion of trust in politicians and in
traditional approaches to government and administration. The book
analyses the way new machinery and new rules have been put in place
in different parts of the public sector as a protection against
corruption and conflict of interest and as a spur to raising
standards. It provides the first full-length treatment of the
evolving integrity agenda in the United Kingdom. The book traces
the impact of the Committee on Standards in Public Life which set
out the Nolan principles in its first report in 1995 and examines
how those principles have been applied in different sectors -
Parliament, the executive, the civil service, local government and
the devolved governments - and how they have been applied to the
problems of party funding and lobbying. Finally, it assesses the
changing level of support for the Committee's mission and the
impact of its work both on the quality of public life itself and on
public confidence. -- .
One of the most profound changes in British public life over the
last twenty years has been the increasing concern with probity and
standards. Some of that concern has been the product of scandals
such as the cash for questions affair and the expenses scandal;
some of it reflects the erosion of trust in politicians and in
traditional approaches to government and administration. The book
analyses the way new machinery and new rules have been put in place
in different parts of the public sector as a protection against
corruption and conflict of interest and as a spur to raising
standards. It provides the first full-length treatment of the
evolving integrity agenda in the United Kingdom. The book traces
the impact of the Committee on Standards in Public Life which set
out the Nolan principles in its first report in 1995 and examines
how those principles have been applied in different sectors -
Parliament, the executive, the civil service, local government and
the devolved governments - and how they have been applied to the
problems of party funding and lobbying. Finally, it assesses the
changing level of support for the Committee's mission and the
impact of its work both on the quality of public life itself and on
public confidence. -- .
Crisis of Conservatism? assesses the status of American
conservatism-its politics, its allies in the Republican Party, and
the struggle for the soul of the conservative movement that became
especially acute with the controversial policies of the Bush
administration and Republican losses in the 2006 and 2008
elections. What do different types of conservatives believe? How
much do they have in common? How strong is the conservative
movement in the United States, and what impact does it have on the
Republican Party? Can conservatives and Republicans find in
opposition a unity which had shattered as a result of being in
power? To what degree do conservative ideas represent the
mainstream of political beliefs in the United States? In short, is
there the crisis of conservatism that some thought apparent as a
result of the administration of George W. Bush? The book's
contributors, a broad array of leading scholars of conservatism,
identify a range of tensions in the conservative movement and the
Republican Party, tensions over what conservatism is and should be,
over what conservatives should do when in power, and over how
conservatives should govern. Views differ a great deal, both
between the public and conservative elite groups and among
conservative elites themselves. This is balanced by the tendency of
many in the general public to identify themselves as conservatives
and by the vibrant intellectual life and vitality of conservative
elites. In brief, Crisis of Conservatism? analyzes a conservative
movement that seemed to be in crisis in the wake of the 2008
election and that remains beset by many problems and divisions but
has fundamental strengths, both in the underlying proclivity of
much of the American public to see itself as conservative and in
the passion of conservative activists.
This text offers a timely, comprehensive, and thought-provoking
assessment of government, politics, and policy in the United
States. Written by a new, international team of leading scholars
and focused on the trends of the 1990s, this book sets the scene
for a thorough understanding of American politics into the new
century. Part One concentrates on the institutional framework of
American government; Part Two examines the parties, pressure
groups, and electoral system and the ways in which these dynamic
forces channel public opinion and shape the political agenda; Part
Three surveys both the substance and the process of public policy
in three key areas -- the economy, social policy, and foreign
policy; Part Four provides brief overviews of some issues of
contemporary political controversy -- affirmative action, campaign
finance reform, the role of the media, education, and city
governance; Part Five assesses the state of American politics at
the century's end.
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