Politics and the people : a history of British democracy since 1918 / Kevin Jefferys
- Bib ID:
- 4317904
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Jefferys, Kevin
- Description:
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- London : Atlantic, 2007
- xii, 324 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781843542223
- 1843542226
- Summary:
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"In the run-up to the last general election, journalists around the country issued dismal predictions for turnout. No-one was going to vote, they said, and British democracy was in crisis. When turnout was recorded at 61 per cent, it seemed certain that something had gone horribly wrong in the relationship between Britain's governors and governed." "Looking back over the previous three generations, however, Kevin Jefferys argues that there never was a 'golden age' of democratic participation, and that political apathy has always been endemic among the British public. Conducting the first in-depth study of opinion polls and records of how, why and when the nation has voted, Jefferys traces the history of modern British democracy as seen through the eyes of its people, from its inception in 1918 to the low turnout of the present day. In doing so, he reveals what really stirs the British electorate and why, sometimes, politics just doesn't matter." "Politics and the People is a unique take on our political history and an invaluable account of the emergence of British democracy as we know it."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. The road to 1918
- 2. Britain's 'near democracy', 1918-39
- 3. No time for politics' Wartime Britain, 1939-45
- 4. 'Don't know and don't care'? The Attlee years, 1945-51
- 5. 'Content, complete, complacent' Affluence and popular politics in the 1950s
- 6. Britain's 'civic culture' The early 1960s
- 7. The age of 'democratic transformation', 1964-79
- 8. A 'revolution' in participation? From Thatcher to Major, 1979-92
- 9. 'Critical citizens', 1992-2005.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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