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Record Nr.

UNINA9910682569903321

Titolo

Conservative governments in the age of Brexit / / edited by Matt Beech and Simon Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Macmillan Palgrave, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

3-031-21464-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 pages)

Disciplina

324.24104090512

Soggetti

Conservatives - Great Britain - History - 21st century

Great Britain Politics and government 2007-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction (Matt Beech and Simon Lee) -- Part 1: Ideas, Leadership and Elections -- 2. Conservative Party Ideology in the Age of Brexit (Matt Beech) -- 3. Prime Ministerial Leadership in the Age of Brexit (Roderick Crawford) -- 4. The General Elections: 2015, 2017, 2019 (Christopher Fear) -- 5. The EU Referendum and British Politics (Jasper Miles) -- 6. Parliament and the Constitution (Philip Norton) -- Part 2: Continuity and Change in Public Policy -- 7. Two Steps Backwards: UK Economic Policy in the Ages of Austerity and Brexit, 2015 to 2020 (Simon Lee) -- 8. Conservative Governments and Education Policy in the Age of Brexit, 2015 to 2020 (Joseph Tiplady) -- 9. The Submerged Welfare State: Health and Social Care Policy in England from 2015 to 2020(Holly Jarman) -- 10. Conservative Welfare Policies: Ideational Oscillation in the Age of Brexit (Daniel Pitt) -- 11. Consistently inconsistent? Assessing UK Climate Action in the Age of Brexit (Jeremy F.G. Moulton) -- 12. British Defence Policy and Brexit: Finding Stability During a Period of Uncertainty (Philip Mayne) -- 13. Foreign Policy and International Development from Cameron to Johnson (James R. Pritchett) -- Part 3: Four Nation Politics -- 14. A Much-Misgoverned Nation: England in the Age of Brexit (Simon Lee) -- 15.Scotland, Conservatism and the British Union, 2015-20 (Margaret Arnott) -- 16. Wales and the Conservative Government, 2015-20 (Roger Awan-Scully) -- 17. Alienation and Destabilization: Northern Ireland in the Age of



Brexit (Cillian McGrattan). .

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides the first evaluation of the three Conservative administrations which have been affected, shaped and determined by the age of Brexit. It breaks new ground by collectively analysing the Cameron, May and Johnson governments in an era of political and social shock and disruption, caused by the phenomenon of Brexit. As an edited collection, the book brings experts together who explain the complexities of ideas, leadership, votes, policy areas and territorial politics in an accessible and concise fashion. Contributors consider the continuities and discontinuities in Conservative Party ideas and political action. Matt Beech is Reader in Politics & Director of the Centre for British Politics at University of Hull, UK, and IES Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley, USA. Simon Lee is Senior Lecturer in Politics at University of Hull, UK.