The Resurgence of Conservatism in Anglo-American Democracies

by Cooper, Barry; Kornberg, Allan; Mishler, William

• ISBN13: 9780822307938
• ISBN10: 0822307936
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-12-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

This work presents analyses by experts on the rise of anew tide of conservative governments in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain in an attempt to find what, if any, common ideologies and programs unite them, with what results, in terms of institutional change and policy direction, have been, and what are the prospects for permanent change.

Table of Contents

Preface

The Resurgence of Conservatism in Britain Canada and the United States: An Overview

Structural Factors in the Conservative Resurgence

Hunting the Snark: Or Searching for Evidence of That Widely Touted but Highly Elusive Resurgence of Public Support for Conservative Parties in Britain Canada and the United States

Public Policy and the Resurgence of Conservatism in Three Anglo-American Democracies

Gulliver and the Lilliputians: Conservatism Foreign Policy Alliance Relations

Conservatives and the Courts in the United States and Canada

Conservatism and the Courts: A Comparative Analysis of Canada and the United States

New Wine in Old Bottles: Thatcher's Conservative Economic Policy

Mrs. Thatcher's Crusade: Conservatism in Britain 1972-1986

The Resurgence of Conservatism in British Elections After 1974

Conservatism in Canada: The Ideological Impact of the 1984 Election

Canada's Tory Tide: Electoral Change and Partisan Instability in the 1980s

The Economic Conservatism of the Reagan Administration: Notes for a Theory Party Differences Partisan Change and Electoral Accountability

Religion and the Resurgence of Conservatism

The Reagan Years: Turning to the Right or Groping Toward the Middle?

Index

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