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9780198280507

SDP The Birth, Life, and Death of the Social Democratic Party

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    9780198280507

  • ISBN10:

    0198280505

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1996-01-04
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

Launched on a wave of euphoria in 1981, the SDP aroused the hopes and enthusiasm of millions of people. Promising to break the mould of British politics, its leaders included three of the most respected figures in British public life--Roy Jenkins, David Owen, and Shirley Williams. But despite winning with the Liberals a quarter of the vote in two general elections, by the autumn of 1987 it had disintegrated amidst acrimony and bitter in-fighting. This book, based on unprecedented access to the SDP's archive and extensive interviews with all the leading players, chronicles the party's short but turbulent history and analyses in detail the reasons for its early success and its ultimate demise.

Author Biography

Ivor Crewe is Professor of Government at the University of Essex

Table of Contents

Pre-history: 1964-1979
The Gang of Three
Jenkins and the Jenkinsites
Anguish: 'Severe Mental Pain'Born in Despair
Defectors and Loyalists
What Kind of Party? And Whose?
The Golden Age: March - December 1981
Jenkins as Leader: 1982-3A 'Partnership of Principle'Disappointment: June 1983
New Institutions for a New Party
Machinery, Members, and Money
A 'Media Party'?
The Party of a New Class
The SDP, The Alliance, and the Electorate
The Owen Ascendency I: 1983-5
The Owen Ascendency II: 1985-7
Humiliation: June 1987
The SDP Disintegrates: 1987-8Of Merger and a Dead Parrot
Who Was to Blame?
SDP: A Study in Failure
Epilogue
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