The Decline of the Liberal Party in Parliament and in the Constituencies, 1914-1931
Author : Michael William Hart
Publisher :
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Michael William Hart
Publisher :
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 28,43 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Paul Adelman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,67 MB
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1317889274
Paul Adelman seeks to explain the Liberal Party's dramatic transformation in political fortune. This clear, objective up-to-date account of the history of the Liberal Party covers the key period, 1910-1931. Focusing on liberal decline and drawing upon the different views forwarded by historians to account for this phenomenon, it discusses liberal decline before World War 1, the impact of the war on the liberals and the divisions that grew in the party after December 1916 between followers of Asquith and Lloyd George. A number of general factors are also covered, the impact of social and economic change, the effects of the Reform Act of 1918 and the rise of the Labour party. An ideal text for A-level and undergraduate students of history and politics.
Author : Trevor Wilson
Publisher :
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 21,26 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Alun Wyburn-Powell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1526130815
This book is the first analysis of political defections over a long time span. It investigates all the Liberal/Liberal Democrat MPs and former MPs who defected from the party between the elections of December 1910 and May 2010 - around one sixth of all those elected - as well as the smaller number of inward defectors. Each of the 122 defections was an expert judgment on the state of the party at a specific date. The research investigates the timing and reasons for all the defections and reveals long-term trends and underlying causes and apportions responsibility between leaders for them. The author finds some significant differences which distinguished defectors from loyalists and draws wider conclusions about the underlying factors which lead MPs to defect. This book will be of interest to students and lecturers of British politics and anyone interested in the relationship between British political parties in the last century.
Author : Peter Sloman
Publisher : Oxford Historical Monographs
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,18 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0198723504
The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929-1964 explores the reception, generation, and use of economic ideas in the British Liberal Party between its electoral decline in the 1920s and 1930s, and its post-war revival under Jo Grimond. Drawing on archival sources, party publications, and the press, this volume analyses the diverse intellectual influences which shaped British Liberals' economic thought up to the mid-twentieth century, and highlights the ways in which the party sought to reconcile its progressive identity with its longstanding commitment to free trade and competitive markets. Peter Sloman shows that Liberals' enthusiasm for public works and Keynesian economic management - which David Lloyd George launched onto the political agenda at the 1929 general election - was only intermittently matched by support for more detailed forms of state intervention and planning. Likewise, the party's support for redistributive taxation and social welfare provision was frequently qualified by the insistence that the ultimate Liberal aim was not the expansion of the functions of the state but the pursuit of 'ownership for all'. Liberal policy was thus shaped not only by the ideas of reformist intellectuals such as John Maynard Keynes and William Beveridge, but also by the libertarian and distributist concerns of Liberal activists and by interactions with the early neoliberal movement. This study concludes that it was ideological and generational changes in the early 1960s that cut the party's links with the New Right, opened up common ground with revisionist social democrats, and re-established its progressive credentials.
Author : Michael Freeden
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 1986-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0191520837
Liberalism Divided is the first detailed study of British liberal thought in the interwar years. The author reassesses progressive liberalism in light of the partial reaction against the state provoked by World War I. The division of liberal thought into two streams--left-liberalism and centrist-liberalism--is explored, and the changing political theories of major new liberals such as L.T. Hobhouse and J.A. Hobson are contrasted with centrist-liberal ideas.
Author : Geraint Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 32,20 MB
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1108483127
A radical reading of British Conservatives' fortunes between the wars, exploring how the party adapted to mass democracy after 1918.
Author : Trevor Wilson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 19,71 MB
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0571280226
By 1914 the Liberal Party had been governing Britain ever since its stunning general election victory of 1906. Four years later the Party was out of office, and so enfeebled it would never again form a government. What prompted the Liberal decline in the years of The Great War, and why did this decline then accelerate? Trevor Wilson's classic study analyses the strains exerted on Liberal principles by war, and the leadership crisis induced in 1916 by Lloyd George's ousting of Asquith. 'A good political mystery, and Mr Wilson has told it in fine dramatic style.' A.J.P. Taylor 'Offers portraits of those rivals, Asquith and Lloyd George, that are among the best - the most plausible and the most temperate - available.' New Yorker
Author : D. Howell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 38,29 MB
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1137456396
Oswald Mosley has been reviled as a fascist and lamented as the lost leader of both Conservative and Labour Parties. Concerned to articulate the demands of the war generation and to pursue an agenda for economic and political modernization his ultimate rejection of existing institutions and practices led him to fascism.
Author : David Dutton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 17,5 MB
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1350307009
Once teetering on the brink of oblivion, the British Liberal Party has again re-established itself as a major force in national and local politics. David Dutton's approachable study offers new insights into the waning, near death and ultimate recovery of the Liberal Party from 1900 to the present day. Discussions of politics, philosophy and performance are all skilfully interwoven as Dutton demonstrates how the party has become, once more, a formidable player on the political stage. The second edition of this established text offers: - An entirely new chapter on the coalition government - A chronology of key events - Numerous suggestions for further reading This lively survey of British Liberalism from the era of Campbell-Bannerman to that of Nick Clegg reviews existing literature while offering its own distinctive perspective on one of the most compelling of political dramas.