The Conservative Party Leadership Election of 1975

2020 ◽  
pp. 377-397
Author(s):  
Emily Stacey
Keyword(s):  
Conservative Party ◽  
Party Leadership

Responsibility and the Big Society

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antje Bednarek
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
Party Leadership ◽  
Good Society ◽  
Big Society ◽  
Class Distinction ◽  
The Welfare State

This paper focuses on the interplay between Conservative thought as evinced by the current Conservative Party leadership and the idea of responsibility, which is a central concern in the Big Society programme. I show that responsibility holds different meanings based on attitudes to work and the welfare state and that the differentiation in meaning map onto a working class/middle class distinction. I then argue that the ‘good society’ as it emerges from the Big Society idea would be a more stratified one that accepts large degrees of inequality. Leaving the conceptual plane, I then provide support for my argument with findings from qualitative research into the lifeworld of young Conservatives.

scholarly journals The Conservative Party Leadership Election of 2016: An Analysis of the Voting Motivations of Conservative Parliamentarians

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Jeffery ◽  
Tim Heppell ◽  
Richard Hayton ◽  
Andrew Crines
Keyword(s):  
Conservative Party ◽  
Party Leadership
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