True Blues: The Politics of Conservative Party Membership

ISBN-13: 9780198277859 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 320 str.

Patrick Seyd; Jeremy J. Richardson; Paul Whiteley

Opis

This book is the first in-depth study of this crucial section of the Conservative Party. Drawing on new and revealing survey data, it paints a fascinating picture of the social make-up and political views of a grass roots membership who dislike Jacques Delors more than the European Community, and The Sun newspaper most of all. The book challenges the stereotypical view of the Conservative activist as an eccentric and politically irrelevant Thatcher-loving extremist. Instead, the authors argue that the grass roots membership are the unsung heroes of political life; helping to keep the party system working and democracy intact at a time when it is under considerable strain.

Recenzje

This volume splendidly complements Seyd and Whiteley's earlier survey-based study of Labour Party members and joins the latter as simply indispensable for most members of EPOP ... it is something of a triumph that any large-scale survey of members has been successfully carried out and the high quality of the book is an added bonus.

O autorze

Patrick Seyd has lived and taught in Sheffield since 1970. He is the co-author, with Paul Whiteley, of Labour's Grass Roots (OUP, 1992) which sold over 2,000 copies. Paul Whiteley has previously taught at the University of Arizona and the University of Bristol. Jeremy Richardson is the editor of Pressure Groups (1993) which is a volume in Oxford Readings in Politics and Government,and co-author, with Sonia Mazey, of Lobbying in the European Community (OUP, 1993).