Postwar conservatism, a transnational investigation : Britain, France, and the United States, 1930-1990 /: Britain, France, and the United States, 1930-1990. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Clarisse Berthezène, Jean-Christian Vinel, editors.
• Editors: Berthezène, Clarisse; Vinel, Jean-Christian
• Contents: Acknowledgments; Contents ; List of Tables ; Chapter 1: Introduction; A Witch Is Dead; Bringing National Historiographies Together; Toward a Transnational Historiography of Conservatism?; Notes; Chapter 2: The Uses and Abuses of the Scottish Enlightenment in Modern Conservatism; Notes; Chapter 3: The Theory and Practice of Conservative Propaganda and Organisation in Britain and France in the Interwar Years; National Narratives; Crowd Psychology, Elites and Masses; War, Managerial Science and Propaganda; The Reorganisation of Parties; The Reorganisation of the Conservative Party; The CPRN. The Alliance Démocratique: Organising the Mass from AboveConclusion; Notes; Chapter 4: The Long Road of French Neoliberalism; The Origins of Neoliberalism; An International Movement; Conquering the State in France; The European Dynamic; Notes; Chapter 5: Principles, Markets and National Interest in Conservative Approaches to Social Policy; II. Old Toryism and New Liberalism; III. Conservative Social Policy Between the Wars; IV. Social Policy and the Second World War; V. Conservatism and the Welfare State; VI. Pragmatism Versus Ideology; Notes. Chapter 6: Taxation, Distribution and Incentives: Conservative Policy in Britain, 1945-1981Creating the Low-Effort Bargain; Conservative Policy 1951-1964: Timidity and Caution 8; Conservatives in Opposition, 1964-1970: Creating an Opportunity Society?18; Conservatives in Power, 1970-1974: The Demise of the Opportunity Society; Toward Thatcherism 43; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 7: The Institutionalization of Tax Revolt in France and the United States; Small Reforms, Large Mobilizations; Two Forms of Anti-Tax Mobilization; Broadening the Base of Tax Revolt; Conclusion; Notes. Chapter 8: French Management Conservatism in Action: The Individualization of Labor Bargaining and Managerial Uses of the LawCollective Bargaining, an Unlikely Mechanism for Individualization; The Individualization of Collective Bargaining Agreements, the Transformation of Capitalism, and the Decline of Keynesianism; The Decline of Public Policy; Brief Conclusion; Annex; The Changing Relationship Between Law and Company Bargaining, from the 1980s to the Present: Selected Examples; Notes; Chapter 9: "Thick" States and "Thin" States, in a New Era of Merchant Power; The Past Is Prologue. Commodity ProductionSupply Chain Power; Labor's Fate; The Future; Notes; Chapter 10: Transatlantic Dimensions of Electoral Strategy: Republican Party Interpretations of UK Politics, 1936-c. 1960; Notes; Chapter 11: George Wallace and Enoch Powell: Comparing the Politics of Populist Conservatism in the USA and the UK; George Wallace and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism in the 1960s U.S.; Enoch Powell: A Populist Conservative "Prophet" in the United Kingdom; Conclusion; Notes.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 297 pages)
• Subjects: 320.52; History; Conservatism -- History -- 20th century; HISTORY -- Civilization; HISTORY -- Essays; HISTORY -- Reference; HISTORY -- Social History; Conservatism; Politics and government; Konservativismus; History -- Modern -- General; Political Science -- History & Theory; Science -- History; History: earliest times to present day; Political science & theory; History of ideas; World history; History, Modern; World politics; History -- World; General & world history; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Great Britain; Großbritannien; Frankreich; USA; History; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319402710; 3319402714; 3319402706; 9783319402703
• Related ISBNs: 9783319402703; 3319402706
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical reference and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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