This book explores the central paradox of British democracy - the fact that Conservative governments have held office for nearly 50 of the 70 years since manhood suffrage was introduced in 1918 - as well as the dilemmas and ambiguities of the 20th century British left. The book analyzes the reasons why the Labour Party of the 1920s failed to construct a Labour-dominated coalition which held power before World War I and examines the roles of individual socialist and social democratic politicians, from Ernest Bevin and Stafford Cripps to Anthony Crosland and David Owen. The author ends this work with a plea for a new progressive coalition, based on the values of community and citizenship.
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Höhe: 240 mm
Breite: 159 mm
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978-0-434-45094-7 (9780434450947)
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The paradox of British democracy; Asquith's ghost; revolution averted; varieties of reform; the politics of deprivation. Part 2 Ernest Bevin and the apotheosis of Labourism; Hugh Dalton - the progressive as bounder; Sir Stafford Gripps - the progressive as moralist; Herbert Morrison; Aneurin Bevan; the progressive as socialist; Hugh Gaitskell - the Social Democrat as hero; Richard Crossman - the progressive as gadfly; the tortoise and the hare; Harold Wilson - alibi for a party; Tony Crosland - the progressive loyalist; David Owen. Part 3 Labourism resurgent; revisionism revisited; towards a new progressive coalition.
