The British Conservative Party : ideology and citizenship
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The British Conservative Party : ideology and citizenship
(Routledge studies in modern British history)
Routledge, 2024
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction : citizenship and the conservatives
- A brief history of citizenship
- Citizenship and the conservative tradition
- The post-war British citizenship debate
- The book's structure
- Margaret Thatcher's 'active citizen': placing civil society at the centre of citizenship
- The welfare state and the 'new right'
- Thatcherism and 'active citizenship'
- The responsible individual
- Does the state have a role?
- Civil society as a nursery of citizenship
- The market as an educational tool? 'Popular capitalism'
- Rights and duties
- Thatcher's third term and the idea of an 'active citizen'
- Neoliberalism or communitarianism?
- Thatcher's conservative idea of citizenship
- John Major's Citizen's Charter and the consumer citizen
- The 1990s
- Rethinking conservatism?
- The Citizen's Charter
- The state, the market, and the meanings of citizenship
- The debate around the charter as a Thatcherite policy
- The administrative and organizational reforms
- The consumer and the active citizen
- New Labour and Conservative Party reconstruction
- New Labour: from reinvention to power
- Communities, public service and citizenship
- Conservative crises and the party's 'modernization'
- Conservative leaders in opposition
- Reinventing conservative ideology: compassionate and civic conservatism
- The ideology behind the big society: 'There is such thing as society'
- The conservatives and the British in the early twenty-first century
- Conservative modernizers
- The ideology of the 'new' conservatives
- The 2008 crisis and the 2010 coalition: was modernization threatened?
- The big society: a redefined idea of citizenship
- The state as the big government
- Rebuilding civil society
- The individual and social action
- Big society: traditions and ideas
- Cameron's citizenship