Labour's landslide : the British general election 1997
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Labour's landslide : the British general election 1997
Manchester University Press , Distributed in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1997
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: hbk ISBN 9780719051586
Description
General elections shape British politics. The 1997 election transformed the British political landscape and broke all records. After 18 years in opposition, Labour returned to government with 419 MPs and a majority of 179 seats. The scale of Labour's victory, and the Conservative's defeat, was the result of the biggest shift in the support from one party to another this century; to describe this as a landslide may not sufficiently covey the sheer magnitude of the events. This volume brings together leading academics to analyze the results and assess the key issues including the Conservative party and sleaze, Europe, the economy, Northern Ireland and constitutional reform.
Table of Contents
- The results - how Britain voted
- constituency profile - Wirral South
- Labour's path to power
- constituency profile - Enfield Southgate
- the Conservative party - decline, fall and sleaze
- constituency profile - Tatton
- third and minor party breakthrough?
- constituency profile - Glasgow Govan
- the media and the election
- constituency profile - Exeter
- Europe: Major's nemesis?
- constituency profile - Putney
- how the Conservatives lost the economic argument
- constituency profile - Southport.
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: pbk ISBN 9780719051593
Description
This book offers the first transnational history of white nationalism in Britain, the US and the formerly British colonies of Rhodesia, South Africa and Australia from the post-World War II period to the present. It situates contemporary white nationalism in the 'Anglosphere' within the context of major global events since 1945. White nationalism, it argues, became more global in reaction to the forces of decolonisation, civil rights, mass migration and the rise of international institutions. In this period, assumptions of white supremacy that had been widely held by whites throughout the world were challenged and reformulated, as western elites professed a commitment to colour-blind ideals. The decline in legitimacy of overtly racist political expression produced international alliances among white supremacists and new claims of populist legitimation. -- .
Table of Contents
- The results - how Britain voted
- constituency profile - Wirral South
- Labour's path to power
- constituency profile - Enfield Southgate
- the Conservative party - decline, fall and sleaze
- constituency profile - Tatton
- third and minor party breakthrough?
- constituency profile - Glasgow Govan
- the media and the election
- constituency profile - Exeter
- Europe: Major's nemesis?
- constituency profile - Putney
- how the Conservatives lost the economic argument
- constituency profile - Southport.
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