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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Conservative Party"”.
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The Conservative Party representatives study 2002: a multi-focus, quantitative analysis of the beliefs, behaviour and background of Conservative Party politicians in 2002
The Conservative Party Representatives Study 2002 is a multi-focus analysis using quantitative methods of the institutional and political culture of Conservative politicians in 2002. A 20-page questionnaire was sent in April 2002 to all Conservative MPs, Peers, MEPs, Scottish MPs, Welsh and Greater …
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Factionalism in the Conservative Party : the 'anti-Europeans' since 1970
The Conservative Parliamentary Party (CPP), traditionally regarded as a party of unity and cohesion by many leading academics, has since the early 1970's, witnessed a public display of internal controversies and disunity amongst its members. In the last twenty-eight years, successive Conservative …
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Inventing Burke: Edmund Burke and the Conservative Party, 1790-1918
… wisdom assumes Burke was hailed as a Conservative oracle from the moment <em>Reflections on the Revolution in France</em> appeared. In fact, nineteenth century Conservatives considered Burke a "Whig" who had erred on most critical issues: slavery, Crown prerogative, Ireland, empire. …
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The Conservative Party and Thatcherism, 1970-1979: A grass-roots perspective
… the values, prejudices, and interests of the Conservative party. The threat of socialism was pervasive and underpinned by the party’s socio-economic base. The economic status of the middle class, under threat from inflation, pay controls, taxation, organised trade unions, and even …
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Love and marriage in Labour and Conservative party cultures, 1918-1970
… to be accommodated into new forms of political party cultures. The thesis charts a change over the course of the twentieth century, from a wide acceptance of ‘seat inheritance’ between husbands and wives, to a turn against such overt political dynasticism later in the period. However, the …
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The Conservative Party in the age of universal suffrage: Popular conservatism, 1918-1929.
The Conservative Party in the age of universal suffrage: Popular conservatism, 1918-1929.
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An exploration of the internal/external brand orientations of David Cameron’s Conservative Party
… how can we understand the complexity of the UK Conservative Party brand from an internal and external perspective under the leadership of David Cameron? To answer this question this study explores the ‘brand identity’ and ‘brand image’ of the UK Conservative Party and considers the transfer …
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Opposition in a Changing Political Environment: Leadership and the Conservative Party, 1997-2010
… a study of the balance of power between the Conservative Party and its leader in their most recent period in opposition from 1997 to 2010. A literature on the place of the opposition within the British political system was developed as part of post-1945 studies of the Westminster Model. …
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An historical study of unofficial parliamentary party groupings in the Conservative Party from 1830
… so in the case of political parties and the Conservative Party, as the most successful party in British history, is no exception. Such groupings have existed within the Party for as long as the Party itself has been in existence and as such have come into being for a wide range of reasons. …
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The development of the Monday Club and its contribution to the Conservative Party and the modern British right, 1961 to 1990
… of the Monday Club and its contribution to the Conservative Governments, the Conservative Party and the modern British Right, from the Club's inception in 1961 to the fall of Margaret Thatcher in 1990. The significance of this investigation lies in the fact that whilst the Monday Club is much …
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An elite’s response to democracy: how the Conservative Party adapted to extensions of the franchise; and coped with ensuing political repercussions 1867-1914.
This thesis investigates how the Conservative party coped with the far-reaching effects of democratic reform between 1867 and 1914. It analyses the performance of successive party leaders through their exploitation of high politics; and how ideology influenced their policy, and decision making. It …
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The origins of Prussian conservatism, 1815-56
… and religious thought within the Prussian old conservative milieu. It presents a religious party within the Prussian state church as the origins of Prussia’s conservative party post-1848. The roots of this church-political party, however, lie within the experiences of the Napoleonic Wars …
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The British New Right and the Problem of Public Opinion, c.1965-1987
… to rework prevailing assumptions within the Conservative Party regarding the relationship between ideas and the people. Convinced that, under Edward Heath’s leadership, the Conservative Party’s activities had become constrained by a hostile climate of public opinion, they resolved to change …
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Young Conservatives, Young Socialists and the great youth abstention : youth participation and non-participation in political parties
… show that whilst neither the Labour nor the Conservative Party has enjoyed unqualified success in recruiting young members, Labour has enjoyed comparative success in increasing its youth membership in the period 1970-2001 both absolutely and as proportion of the total membership. I have …
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Bombs and ballots : estimating the effect of the Madrid bombings on the March 2004 general elections in Spain
… that bombs undermined support for the incumbent conservative party and increased the share of the vote for the opposition socialists, similar to previous findings by Montalvo (2006) using a natural experiment design. A non-linear approach using binomial and multinomial logit models is not …
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Playing in the Margins: Collaboration Between Local Party Organizations in the Canadian Party System
Collaboration between local party organizations is a peculiar organizational trait for Canadian political parties. It is peculiar because local party organizations were once conceived to be solely concerned with electoral activities in their own district, while central parties helped local …
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Fractional Integration and Political Modeling
… best predicts support levels for the governing party; egocentric measures outperform sociotropic measures. The concept of fractional cointegration is discussed and the value of fractionally integrated error correction mechanisms are both discussed and demonstrated in models of Conservative party …
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Restoration, Resistance, and Reconstruction: Liberty at Last in Clarke County, Virginia, 1865-1879
… find threatening. Blacks took advantage of poor Conservative party discipline and white class schisms to build community institutions, like churches, schools, and mutual aid societies. The restoration of white supremacy encountered stiff black resistance, but elite whites eventually consolidated …
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