The British Conservative Party : ideology and citizenship

Author(s)

• Maschette, Lenon Campos

Bibliographic Information

The British Conservative Party : ideology and citizenship

Lenon Campos Maschette

（Routledge studies in modern British history）

Routledge, 2024

• : hbk

Note

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

• NCID: BD06376150
• ISBN:
  • 9781032496412
• LCCN: 2023041982
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 167 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : JN1129.C7
  • DC23 : 324.24104
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Conservative Party (Great Britain)
  • LCSH : Conservatism -- Great Britain
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945-
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA70038012