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dc.contributor.authorJeffery, David
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-14T13:02:52Z
dc.date.available2023-03-14T13:02:52Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61693
dc.description.abstractIn the 1968 local elections the Liverpool Conservatives won 62 percent of the vote and 78 percent of the seats on Liverpool City Council. By 1972 the party had held a majority on Liverpool’s municipal government for 85 of the previous 100 years. But in 1983 they lost their last two MPs, and in 1998 they lost their final councillor. The Conservatives have not won an electoral contest in the city since. Whatever happened to Tory Liverpool? Success, decline and irrelevance since 1945 explores the history of Conservative electoral performance in Liverpool from the end of the Second World War to the present day, and challenges a number of myths regarding the city’s political history: Conservative post-war success was not due to sectarian tensions or false consciousness, and neither was Conservative decline due to Margaret Thatcher. The book takes a multi-method approach to the study of Conservative Party history in Liverpool. It proposes a tripartite framework, which separates the periods of success (1945–1972), decline (1973–1986), and irrelevance (1987 onwards), and argues that each period should be explained by recourse to different phenomena. Only in this way can the complex post-war history of the Conservative Party in Liverpool truly be understood.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and governmenten_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Europe::1DDU United Kingdom, Great Britainen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPQ Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999en_US
dc.subject.otherConservative Party; Liverpool; Scouse; Identity; Margaret Thatcher; Sectarianism; Protestant; Politics; Religion; Socialisationen_US
dc.titleWhatever Happened to Tory Liverpool?en_US
dc.title.alternativeSuccess, Decline and Irrelevance since 1945en_US
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy4dc2afaf-832c-43bc-9ac6-8ae6b31a53dcen_US
oapen.pages296en_US
oapen.place.publicationLiverpoolen_US


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