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Politics and Personalities

Palgrave Macmillan

Authors:

  1. Dennis Kavanagh

    1. University of Nottingham, UK

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. On Writing Contemporary Electoral History

    • Dennis Kavanagh
    Pages 1-15

  4. Whatever Happened to Consensus Politics?

    • Dennis Kavanagh
    Pages 40-63

  5. Is Thatcherism Conservative?

    • Dennis Kavanagh
    Pages 64-77

  6. Making Sense of Thatcher

    • Dennis Kavanagh
    Pages 78-89

  7. Must Labour Lose — Again?

    • Dennis Kavanagh
    Pages 90-104

  8. Ideology, Sociology and Labour’s Strategy

    • Dennis Kavanagh
    Pages 105-122

  9. Do We Need a Centre Party?

    • Dennis Kavanagh
    Pages 123-133

  11. Enoch Powell: Vision and Waste

    • Dennis Kavanagh
    Pages 163-176

  13. The Deferential English: a Comparative Critique

    • Dennis Kavanagh
    Pages 188-216

  14. An American Science of British Politics

    • Dennis Kavanagh
    Pages 217-245

  16. The Timing of Elections: Fair Play or Fiddle?

    • Dennis Kavanagh
    Pages 272-285

  17. The Monarchy in Contemporary Political Culture

    • Dennis Kavanagh
    Pages 286-314

  18. Public Opinion Polls

    • Dennis Kavanagh
    Pages 315-336

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 337-340
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A study of power in British political parties. It asks what happened to consensus politics and looks at the ideology and sociology of Labour's strategy. It also questions the need for a centre party and discusses political figures such as Churchill, Enoch Powell and Tony Benn.
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  • University of Nottingham, UK

    Dennis Kavanagh

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