{"product_id":"ideology-and-politics-in-britain-today-politics-today-9780719050565","title":"Ideology and Politics in Britain Today Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoliticians still call themselves socialists, conservatives and liberals, but among these groups exist very different understandings of what these terms represent. This new book provides a clear, comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the ideas and doctrines that have shaped, and will continue to shape, British politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I Background: politics and ideology - what is politics?, the nature of ideology?, ideologies and political parties; British liberal democracy - liberalism and modern history, achieving a liberal democratic constitution, liberalism and modern politics; economics and consensus - the age of \"laissez faire\", the post-war consensus, the decline of consensus, a new consensus?. Part II Mainstream: Whigs and Liberals, Levellers and Whigs, revolutionaries and radicals, free market or \"laissez faire\" liberalism, liberalism and progress; new Liberals and Liberal Democrats - new liberalism, triumph and decline, the continued development of New Liberal thinking, the Alliance and the Liberal Democrats, Liberal Democrat thought and prospects; traditional Conservatism - Tories, Whigs and Edmund Burke, Tories to Conservatives, late Victorian Conservatism, return to moderate conservatism, traditional conservatism versus Thatcherism; Thatcherite Conservatism - neo-liberalism, against socialism, government's role in the economy, neo-liberalism and the new right, Thatcherism in practice, the Conservatives after Mrs Thatcher; British socialism and the Labour movement - classical and liberal ethical socialists and British socialism, the rise of the Labour party; social democracy to New Labour - classical to liberal socialism, the resurgence of classical socialism, Labour under Kinnock, the Blair revolution; nationalism and the politics of Europe, the concept of nationalism, nationalism in Scotland and Wales, Irish nationalism, British nationalism and Europe. Part III The fringe: Green politics - threats to the environment, Green doctrine, industrialism and its alternatives, shades of Green, criticisms of Green ideas; the extremes and the fringe - the extreme left, fascism in Britain, the non-extreme political fringe. Part IV The future: the future of ideology? - the fading of the nation state, late modern or postmodern?","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50515766444375,"sku":"9780719050565","price":14.32,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719050565.jpg?v=1745427858","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ideology-and-politics-in-britain-today-politics-today-9780719050565","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}