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The Conservatives since 1945: The Drivers of Party Change de Tim Bale

The Conservatives since 1945: The Drivers of Party Change

Autor Tim Bale
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 sep 2012

Pornind de la arhivele interne ale partidului, memorii și interviuri contemporane, The Conservatives since 1945 reprezintă o analiză riguroasă a mecanismelor care determină evoluția uneia dintre cele mai longevive organizații politice din lume. Găsim în această lucrare o testare necesară a teoriilor politice clasice care susțin că schimbarea este dictată exclusiv de pierderea puterii sau de succesiunea liderilor. Tim Bale demonstrează că, deși acești factori sunt relevanți, realitatea istorică este mult mai nuanțată, necesitând o abordare care integrează dinamica facțiunilor și adaptabilitatea ideologică.

Descoperim aici o structură care echilibrează cronologia istorică cu rigoarea științelor politice, oferind o perspectivă asupra modului în care conservatorii britanici și-au recalibrat oferta electorală și structura organizatorică după Al Doilea Război Mondial. Cititorii familiarizați cu The Conservative Nation (Routledge Revivals) de Andrew Gamble vor aprecia modul în care Tim Bale aduce analiza în prezent, oferind o bază documentară mult mai vastă ce include perioadele de criză și revitalizare de după era Thatcher. Dacă Timothy Heppell în The Tories se concentrează pe strategii electorale și ideologie, volumul de față merge mai adânc în „bucătăria” internă a partidului, analizând minutele ședințelor care au precedat marile schimbări de direcție.

Această lucrare se înscrie natural în opera autorului, completând cercetările sale din British Conservative Leaders și The Conservative Party After Brexit. În timp ce alte volume se concentrează pe momente punctuale sau pe figuri centrale, The Conservatives since 1945 oferă fundamentul teoretic și istoric necesar pentru a înțelege de ce acest partid rămâne o forță dominantă. Stilul este precis, academic, dar accesibil, evitând jargonul excesiv în favoarea unei expuneri bazate pe dovezi concrete.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199234370
ISBN-10: 019923437X
Pagini: 386
Dimensiuni: 163 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.72 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru studenții la științe politice și istorie contemporană care doresc să înțeleagă dincolo de clișee adaptabilitatea politică. Cititorul câștigă o viziune clară asupra modului în care marile partide se transformă sub presiunea internă și externă. Este o recomandare fermă pentru oricine analizează politica britanică sau mecanismele de supraviețuire instituțională ale partidelor de centru-dreapta.

Despre autor

Tim Bale este profesor de politică la Universitatea Queen Mary din Londra (anterior la Universitatea Sussex) și este recunoscut ca unul dintre cei mai importanți analiști ai politicii britanice contemporane. Opera sa vastă include studii fundamentale despre Partidul Conservator, sistemele politice europene și procesele electorale, precum European Politics. Expertiza sa este adesea solicitată în media pentru a explica dinamica internă a partidelor din Regatul Unit, Bale reușind să combine rigoarea academică cu o capacitate rară de a sintetiza evenimente politice complexe pentru un public larg.

Descriere

What do we really mean when we say a political party has changed? And exactly what is it that drives that change? Political scientists working in the comparative tradition have come up with a general explanation that revolves around the role of election defeats and loss of office, and around changes of leader and factions. But how well does that explanation cope when subjected to a historically-grounded and therefore robust examination? This book tries to answer that question by subjecting the common wisdom to a real-world, over-time test using one of the world's oldest and most successful political parties as an in-depth case study. What do the periods spent in both opposition and government by the British Conservatives since 1945 tell us about what drives parties to change their sales-force, the way they organize, and the policies they come up with? Using internal papers, memos and minutes of meetings from party archives, along with historical and contemporary accounts, memoirs and interviews, this book maps the extent of change and then explores what may have driven it. The conventional wisdom, it turns out, is not necessarily wrong but incomplete, requiring both qualification and supplementation. This approachably-written book suggests when, how, and why. Along the way, it provides a fresh and comprehensive account of the Conservative Party that should appeal equally to those interested in political history and those interested in political science.

Recenzii

an extremely valuable addition to the academic literature, opening the door to further avenues for discussion which would provide important practical lessons for politicians and parties, not just academics.
This is an erudite and highly enjoyable book, which, like Bale's previous work in the field, sets a new standard against which other scholars of Conservative politics will be judged.
The book is meticulously researched, clearly structured and underpinned by an explicit methodology that is sound. It contains a rich and nuanced narrative of Conservative Party change ... Bale's book is a superb piece of scholarship that is destined to become a key reference on the Tories. It deserves to be so.
... the book contains an impressive amount of research and analysis that scholars interested in post-war British politics and political parties will find indispensable.
Bale has written yet another seminal book on the contemporary Conservative Party. Meticulously researched, cogently argued and lucidly written, this is deservedly destined to be absolutely essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the internal dynamics of Britains oldest and most (electorally) successful political party
The Conservatives since 1945 is a rich, historical analysis which seeks to address pressing questions relevant to all parties today ... The book thus constitutes an extremely valuable addition to the academic literature, opening the door to further avenues for discussion which would provide important practical lessons for politicians and parties, not just academics.
Bale operates in the terrain between history and politics, testing models drawn from political science against thickly descriptive historical examples. This refreshingly interdisciplinary approach has established him as one of the leading scholars of modern Conservatism, whose work can be read with profit by general readers and scholars from both disciplines.
A book of the highest quality ... significantly different from the existing books on twentieth or post-war Conservative history ... Academics will find the book has considerable academic depth through its engagement with a diverse range of sources and approaches. However, the general reader who is interested in politics and parties, can engage with the analysis as it is jargon free. [The book] seeks to interest the reader by communicating in an accessible way. This is to be commended and many political scientists could learn from Bale and abandon their convoluted methodologies and tortuous prose that serve to alienate rather than educate. Above all else, this is a book that will be of tremendous value to students of the Conservative Party and British political history generally for many decades.
The Conservatives since 1945, examines the motors of change within the party at every level from the high politics of leadership and factional dominance to the minutiae of party organisation ... The book is rich in surprises.
The British Conservative party is one of the most successful political parties in the world. This detailed monograph provides an illuminating analysis of its drivers of change during the period 1945-1997 ... The author makes extensive use of primary archival sources as well as synthesising secondary material. The analysis is rigorous: most points are made with supporting evidence from a multiplicity of sources.
[The Conservatives Since 1945] crosses disciplinary boundaries - testing the findings of political science against rigorous historical investigation remarkably comprehensive and persuasive [Bale] has the unusual gift of presenting a forensic analysis in compelling prose.
Bale is covering ground that is well-trodden, but even here he combines useful syntheses of existing analyses with new archival research, and careful judgements on a wide range of historiographical questions, which will make the book highly valuable for both reference and teaching.
Bale does not propose a unifying model for party change; on the contrary, his account is consciously eclectic and multicausal. In this respect, it offers a valuable debunking of the extravagant claims made in more schematic studies

Notă biografică

Tim Bale graduated from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge before going on to take a Masters degree at Northwestern University in the USA. He received his doctorate from Sheffield University. He joined the University of Sussex in 2003 after teaching at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has published widely on party politics, particularly in Britain and Europe. He is the author of the prize-winning book, The Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron and has written for the Financial Times and the Guardian, as well as contributing to television and radio shows both in the UK and overseas.