1: Introduction
2: Disaster to Deliverance: 1945-1951
3: Anxiety, Appeasement, Affluence - and After: 1951-64
4: Amateur to Professional: 1964-1970
5: Betrayal: 1970-4
6: Confrontation and Consensus: 1974-1979
7: Messiah to Meltdown: 1979-1997
8: Conclusion
Index
Winner of the PSA Conservatives and Conservatism Specialist Group Prize Best Publication of 2012
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.
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.
*Jennifer Lees-Marshment, University of Auckland, New Zealand,
Party Politics*
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.
*Richard Hayton, Leeds University, Political Studies Review*
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.
*Jim Buller, Global Discourse Journal*
... the book contains an impressive amount of research and analysis
that scholars interested in post-war British politics and political
parties will find indispensable.
*Ryan Shaffer, The Jounral of the Historical Association*
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
*Peter Dorey, Cardiff University, West European Politics*
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.
*Jennifer Lees-Marshment, Party Politics*
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.
*Robert Saunders, Renewal*
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.
*Dr Timothy Heppell, London School of Economics and Political
Science*
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.
*Colin Kidd, The London Review of Books*
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.
*Democratization24/07/13*
[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.
*Mark Garnett, Times Higher Education*
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.
*Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, English Historical Review*
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
*Robert Saunders, Renewal*
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