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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface vii
1. The Resurgence of Conservatism in Britain, Canada, and the United States: An Overview - Barry Cooper, Allan Kornberg, and William Mishler 1
2. Structural Factors in the Conservative Resurgence - Joel Smith, Allan Kornberg, and Neil Nevitte 25
3. Hunting the Snark: Or Searching for Evidence of That Widely Touted but Highly Elusive Resurgence of Public Support for Conservative Parties in Britain, Canada, and the United States - William Mishler, Marilyn Hoskin, and Roy E. Fitzgerald 54
4. Public Policy and the Resurgence of Conservatism in Three Anglo-American Democracies - Norman C. Thomas 96
5. Gulliver and the Lilliputians: Conservatism, Foreign Policy, and Alliance Relations - William James Booth 137
6. Conservatives and the Courts in the United States and Canada - F.L. Morton 163
7. Conservatism and the Courts: A Comparative Analysis of Canada and the United States - A. Kenneth Pye 185
8. New Wine in Old Bottles: Thatcher's Conservative Economic Policy - James E. Alt 217
9. Mrs. Thatcher's Crusade: Conservatism in Britain, 1972-1986 - Ivor Crewe and Donald D. Searing 258
10. The Resurgence of Conservatism in British Elections After 1974 - Mark N. Franklin 304
11. Conservatism in Canada: The Ideological Impact of the 1984 Election - Roger Gibbins 332
12. Canada's Tory Tide: Electoral Change and Partisan Instability in the 1980s - Allan Kornberg and Harold D. Clarke 351
13. The Economic Conservatism of the Reagan Administration: Notes for a Theory Party Differences, Partisan Change, and Electoral Accountability - Henry W. Chappell, Jr., and William R. Keech 387
14. Religion and the Resurgence of Conservatism - Michael Gillespie and Michael Lienesch 404
15. The Reagan Years: Turning to the Right or Groping Toward the Middle? - Morris P. Fiorina 430
Index 461
About the Contributors 465
