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Amy Edwards. Are We Rich Yet? (2024)
Journal Article

Review porducts. Amy Edwards. Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain. Berkeley Series in British Studies. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. Pp. 384. $29.95 (cloth).

Response to ‘What Conservatives Value’ (2021)
Journal Article

This article responds to O’Hara’s ‘What Conservatives Value’. It establishes what is at stake in our debate about the adjectival nature of conservatism, and it explores the role that risk plays in conservative thinking.

Reassessing Britain’s ‘Post-war consensus’: the politics of reason 1945–1979 (2017)
Journal Article
Blackburn, D. (2018). Reassessing Britain’s ‘Post-war consensus’: the politics of reason 1945–1979. British Politics, 13(2), 195-214. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41293-017-0049-5

Since the late-1970s, scholars have been engaged in a vibrant debate about the nature of post-war British politics. While some writers have suggested that the three decades that succeeded the Second World War witnessed a bi-partisan consensus on key... Read More about Reassessing Britain’s ‘Post-war consensus’: the politics of reason 1945–1979.

Still the stranger at the feast?: ideology and the study of twentieth century British politics (2017)
Journal Article
Blackburn, D. (2017). Still the stranger at the feast?: ideology and the study of twentieth century British politics. Journal of Political Ideologies, 22(2), 116-130. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2017.1298549

This article explores the way in which scholars of twentieth-century British politics have engaged with the concept of ideology. It begins by revisiting Michael Freeden’s seminal intervention on the subject before going on to assess the way in which... Read More about Still the stranger at the feast?: ideology and the study of twentieth century British politics.

‘For We Shall Prejudice Nothing’: Middle Way Conservatism and the Defence of Inequality, 1945–1979 (2015)
Journal Article
Blackburn, D. (2016). ‘For We Shall Prejudice Nothing’: Middle Way Conservatism and the Defence of Inequality, 1945–1979. Political Studies, 64(1_suppl), 156-172. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9248.12210

Recent descriptions of British Conservatism have often identified the defence of inequality as one of its core ideological features. By drawing upon Michael Freeden's morphological conception of ideologies, this article will challenge such descriptio... Read More about ‘For We Shall Prejudice Nothing’: Middle Way Conservatism and the Defence of Inequality, 1945–1979.