All Outputs (11)

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

Harold Macmillan, Margaret Thatcher and British Conservatism’s Politics of Negation (2023)
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‘The ideological tree is always green’: Norberto Bobbio and the future of ideology studies (2022)
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This article locates Norberto Bobbio within the field of ideology studies. After historicising Bobbio’s contribution to the study of ideas, it reflects on some of the key themes that punctuated his work. In doing so, it shows how many of Bobbio’s con... Read More about ‘The ideological tree is always green’: Norberto Bobbio and the future of ideology studies.

The Neoliberal Age? Britain since the 1970s by Aled Davies, Ben Jackson and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (eds.) London, UCL Press, 2021xvii+377 pp., ISBN 978 1 78735 687 0 (hbk) (£45), 978 1 78735 686 3 (pbk) (£25), 978 1 78735 685 6 (ePDF) (Open Access) (2022)
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Response to ‘What Conservatives Value’ (2021)
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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.

In The Shadows: Conservative Epistemology and Ideological Value (2021)
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This article intervenes in the debate about the nature of conservatism. Some contributors to this debate have claimed that this ideology can be defined as an adjectival disposition. They claim, that is, that a conservative possesses an attitude towar... Read More about In The Shadows: Conservative Epistemology and Ideological Value.

Willibald Steinmetz / Michael Freeden / Javier Fernández-Sebastián (eds.): Conceptual History in the European Space (2018)
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Reassessing Britain’s ‘Post-war consensus’: the politics of reason 1945–1979 (2017)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Facing the Future? David Owen and Social Democracy in the 1980s and Beyond (2011)
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David Owen entered the House of Commons as member for Plymouth in 1966. He became a junior minister under Harold Wilson by 1968 and quickly established himself as a leading figure of the Labour right. From 1977 to 1979 he was Britain's youngest post-... Read More about Facing the Future? David Owen and Social Democracy in the 1980s and Beyond.