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The British Conservative Party : ideology and citizenship
Title
The British Conservative Party : ideology and citizenship / Lenon Campos Maschette.
ISBN
100339485X
1003849903
1003849962
9781003394853
9781003849902
9781003849964
9781032496412
9781032496580
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
Copyright Notice Date
©2024
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 167 pages).
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Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 02, 2024).
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Biographical / Historical Note
Lenon Campos Maschette is Postdoctoral Fellow in Politics at the State University of Campinas and holds a PhD in History from the University of Sô Paulo. His research interests include political ideologies with a focus on ideologies of the right. Some of their publications are Citizenship and ideology in David Cameron's 'Big Society' (2023) and Was there a legislative moral agenda in Thatcher's administration? (2021).
Summary
"Citizenship has been an ill-explored subject within Conservative Party studies. When this subject has been analysed, it is usually made by scholars of citizenship, more concerned with general overviews than understanding specific Conservative approaches to the concept. This book intends to fill this gap. Through a rigorous analysis of sources, the author explores how the Conservative Party contested the welfare model of citizenship and sought to recreate a new relationship between the individual, the state and civil society. Starting from Thatcher's idea of 'active citizenship' and going through the analysis of John Major's 'Citizen's Charter' and David Cameron's 'Big Society' project, the book sheds new light on how these developments responded to long-term problems while dialoguing with specific circumstances and the different Conservative leaders' ideas. From an ideological perspective, the author analyses how these leaders echoed and re-signified more traditional political ideas and ideologies while negotiating with and borrowing new flourishing concepts during those years. Far from being a unidimensional citizenship concept, in reinterpreting old ideas and utilizing new ones, these Conservatives elaborated a complex and many times contradictory citizenship model that tried to address both long-lasting and more timely issues that overlapped in British society"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Maschette, Lenon Campos. British Conservative Party New York : Routledge, 2024
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2024
Series
Routledge studies in modern British history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Margaret Thatcher's 'acive 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 citizenship'
Neoliberalism or communitarianism?
The new Conservative idea of citizenship
Conclusion
John Major's Citizen's Charter and the consumer citizen
An ideal successor?
The 1990s and Major's administration
Ideology, citizenship and The Citizen's Charter
What was the Charter about?
The state, the market, and the meanings of citizenship
The debate around the Charter as a Thatcherite policy
The administrative and organisational reforms
The consumer and the active citizen
Conclusion
The New Labour Era 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
Conclusion
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?
Big Society and a redefined idea of citizenship
The state as Big Government
Rebuilding civil society
The individual and social action
Big Society: traditions and ideas.
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