British Conservative Leaders

Author : Charles Clarke
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849549702
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Conservative Leaders written by Charles Clarke and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the party that has won wars, reversed recessions and held prime ministerial power more times than any other, the Conservatives have played an undoubtedly crucial role in the shaping of contemporary British society. And yet, the leaders who have stood at its helm - from Sir Robert Peel to David Cameron, via Benjamin Disraeli, Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher - have steered the party vessel with enormously varying degrees of success. With the widening of the franchise, revolutionary changes to social values and the growing ubiquity of the media, the requirements, techniques and goals of Conservative leadership since the party's nineteenth-century factional breakaway have been forced to evolve almost beyond recognition - and not all its leaders have managed to keep up. This comprehensive and enlightening book considers the attributes and achievements of each leader in the context of their respective time and diplomatic landscape, offering a compelling analytical framework by which they may be judged, detailed personal biographies from some of the country's foremost political critics, and exclusive interviews with former leaders themselves. An indispensable contribution to the study of party leadership, British Conservative Leaders is the essential guide to understanding British political history and governance through the prism of those who created it.

Author : Andrew Denham
Publisher : New Perspectives on the Right
ISBN 13 : 9781526134868
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choosing Party Leaders written by Andrew Denham and published by New Perspectives on the Right. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rigorous, seminal study of leadership selection in British Politics focuses on the Conservatives and Labour Party to explore the skills needed to be an effective leader over the course of the 20th and into the 21st Century.

Author : Andrew Denham
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526134888
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choosing party leaders written by Andrew Denham and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How political parties choose their leaders, and why they choose the leaders they do, are questions of fundamental importance in contemporary parliamentary democracies. This book examines political leadership selection in the two dominant parties in recent British political history, exploring the criteria and skills needed by political leaders to be chosen by their parties. While the Conservative Party’s strong record in office owes much to ability to project an image of leadership competence and governing credibility, the Labour Party has struggled with issues of economic management, leadership ability, and ideological splits between various interpretations of socialism. The authors argue that the Conservatives tend towards a unifying figure who can lead the Party to victory, whereas the Labour Party typically choose a leader to unite the party behind ideological renewal. Exploring the contemporary political choices of leaders like Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, this book offers a timely insight into the leadership processes of Britain’s major political players.

Author : Tim Bale
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745648584
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conservative Party written by Tim Bale and published by Polity. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conservatives are back - but what took them so long? Why did the world's most successful political party dump Margaret Thatcher only to commit electoral suicide under John Major? Just as importantly, what stopped the Tories getting their act together until David Cameron came along? The answers are as intriguing as the questions.

Author : Andrew Denham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratising Conservative Leadership Selection written by Andrew Denham and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at how the election of Conservative Party leaders has become more democratic over the last fifty years and how that has affected the Party and the nature of its leadership.

Author : Duncan Brack
Publisher : British Leaders
ISBN 13 : 9781849541978
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Liberal Leaders written by Duncan Brack and published by British Leaders. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful account of British Liberal leaders.

Author : Charles Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849548168
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Labour Leaders written by Charles Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering the qualities of leaders from this historic party, among them some of the towering figures of British political history, this book places each in the context of their respective time and political landscape. From Keir Hardie to Ed Miliband, and featuring eight Labour prime ministers since the inauguration of James Ramsay MacDonald, it offers an analytical framework by which those leaders may be judged, and a detailed personal biography of each.

Author : Justin McCarthy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752416882
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Political Leaders written by Justin McCarthy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: British Political Leaders by Justin McCarthy

Author : Philip Williamson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521438124
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stanley Baldwin written by Philip Williamson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is both an examination of one of the dominant figures of twentieth-century British politics, and a contribution to the understanding of political leadership and Conservative ideology. It reinterprets the career of Stanley Baldwin, Conservative leader 1923-37 and three times prime minister, in terms of his construction of a "public character," his exploitation of the new mass media, and his exposition of a distinctive Conservative doctrine and language. Baldwin's remarkable ascendancy is shown to have been based on his manipulation of widely-held "national values."

Author : Mark Garnett
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719063312
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conservatives in Crisis written by Mark Garnett and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book should be of value to students of contemporary British politics.