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The modern British party system / Paul Webb and Tim Bale.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Webb, Paul, 1959 April 15- author.
- Bale, Tim, 1965- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political parties--Great Britain.
- Political parties.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1945-.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (405 pages)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- This new edition provides comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the variety of party systems found at central, devolved and local levels in British politics.
- Contents:
- Cover
- The Modern British Party System
- Copyright
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Appendix: Tables on which various figures are based
- 1: Party systems in the UK: An overview
- Introduction
- The Westminster party system
- 1945-70: The era of classic two-partyism
- Post-1974:The emergence of latent multi-partyism
- Devolved party systems
- Scotland
- Wales
- Northern Ireland
- Party systems in local government
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 2: The changing electoral market in Britain: From mobilization to competition
- The social bases of party support and the closing of the electoral market in Britain
- Partisan identification and the frozen party system
- Indications of electoral instability after 1970
- The debate about class dealignment in Britain
- 3: Understanding electoral change: Realignment or dealignment?
- Realignment and the emergence of new cleavages
- Sectoral cleavages
- Geographical cleavages
- Sex, age, and electoral alignments
- The postmaterialism cleavage
- Brexit and the European dimension: A new cleavage?
- Dealignment
- Cognitive mobilization
- Class secularization
- Changing party performance
- Disdainful media treatment of party politics
- 4: How parties compete (1): Ideological reputations and manoeuvres
- Ideology and party competition
- Conservative party ideology
- Scepticism about human ability-and perfectibility
- The value of tradition, community, and convention
- Society as organic and innately hierarchical
- Nation and empire
- Limited economic intervention
- Liberal Democrat ideology
- Labour and the social democratic tradition
- The Greens
- UKIP and the Brexit/Reform UK Party
- Conclusion: Party ideologies in two dimensions.
- 5: How parties compete (2): Programmatic adaptation
- Ideological dimensions and party competition
- Party movements in one-dimensional space
- Party movements in two-dimensional space
- The connection between party ideology and voter preferences
- The endogenous impact of party competition on voter preferences
- Ideology and voting behaviour
- 6: How parties compete (3): Images, media effects, and political marketing
- What are party images and why do they matter?
- Do leaders make (that much of) a difference?
- The media
- Party competition and political marketing
- Note
- 7: Conflict and cohesion within parties
- The influence of the parliamentary backbenches
- Factionalism and the conceptual dimensions of intra-party politics
- Analysing intra-party politics in two-dimensional ideological space
- British party members in two-dimensional space
- Parliamentarians in two-dimensional space
- The realigning impact of Europe on parliamentary parties
- Factions, tendencies, or single-issuealliances?
- Conclusion: Factionalism, intra-partyand cross-partyalignments
- 8: Members, leaders, and the distribution of power within parties
- Ideal types-and some British idiosyncrasies
- The Conservatives
- The Labour Party
- The Liberal Democrats
- The Scottish National Party
- The Green Party of England and Wales
- Elites, activists, members-and voters: May's law of curvilinear disparity
- 9: Party organizational resources
- Resources 1: Party members
- Interpreting the decline of party memberships
- The value of members to modern parties
- Resources 2: Funding
- Resources 3: Staff and policy assistance
- 10: Parties and the Political System
- Popular dissatisfaction with party politics in Britain.
- How well are Britain's political parties fulfilling their political functions?
- Governance and political recruitment
- Representation
- Political communication
- Political participation
- Appendix
- Tables on which various figures are based
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-193917-X
- 0-19-266200-7
- OCLC:
- 1257402594
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