David (Hrsg.) Thackeray

Electoral Pledges in Britain Since 1918

The Politics of Promises

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Nobody doubts that politicians ought to fulfil their promises - what people cannot agree about is what this means in practice. The purpose of this book is to explore this issue through a series of case studies. It shows how the British model of politics has changed since the early twentieth century when electioneering was based on the articulation of principles which, it was expected, might well be adapted once the party or politician that promoted them took office. Thereafter manifestos became increasingly central to electoral politics and to the practice of governing, and this has been especially the case since 1945. Parties were now expect… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Toye, Richard (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-3-030-46662-6
EAN: 9783030466626
Produktnummer: 34536531
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 344 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.3 cm 558 g
Auflage: 1st ed. 2020
Abbildungen: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 558

Über den Autor

David Thackeray is Associate Professor of History at the University of Exeter, UK. He is author of Forging a British World of Trade: Culture, Ethnicity and Market in the Empire/Commonwealth, c.1880-1975 (2019) and has published extensively in the field of British political history, including Conservatism for the Democratic Age: Conservative Cultures and the Challenge of Mass Politics in Early Twentieth Century England (2013).Richard Toye is Professor of Modern History at the University of Exeter, UK. He has published widely in the fields of British, international, and imperial history. His books include Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction (2013), The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill's World War II Speeches (2013) and (with Martin Thomas) Arguing about Empire: Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France, 1882-1956 (2017).