How labour governments fall : from Ramsay Macdonald to Gordon Brown /

How labour governments fall : from Ramsay Macdonald to Gordon Brown /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Description:	ix, 186 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Labour Party (Great Britain) -- History. Labour Party (Great Britain) Political parties -- Great Britain -- History. Political parties. Politics and government Great Britain -- Politics and government. Great Britain. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9338698

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Other authors / contributors:	Heppell, Timothy.
ISBN:	9780230361805 (hardback) 0230361803 (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Bringing together a collaboration of leading specialists in Labour Party history, this edited collection provides a detailed and accessible analysis of what has led to the demise of respective Labour governments from Ramsay MacDonald to Gordon Brown. In doing so this volume provides engaging comparisons between Labour governments considering both external and internal factors which includes the importance of themes such as economic performance; political leadership; party unity; policy direction and the condition of the Conservatives in opposition. The result is a powerful and thought-provoking volume that provides a context in which the reader can place the fall of the Labour government under Gordon Brown in 2010. The book is required reading for students and scholars of British Political History and Labour Party History"--

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures and Tables
1. Introduction
2. The Fall of the First MacDonald Government 1924
3. The Fall of the Second MacDonald Government 1931
4. The Fall of the Attlee Government 1951
5. The Fall of the Wilson Government 1970
6. The Fall of the Callaghan Government 1979
7. The Fall of the Brown Government 2010
8. Conclusion
Index