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Towards Exit from the EU: The Conservative Party’s Increasing Euroscepticism since the 1980s
Politics and Governance, 2017 Since the 1980s, Britain’s Conservative Party has become increasingly critical of the European Union, and of the country’s membership of it. So contentious and controversial has this issue become that it was a significant factor in the downfall of three ...
Peter Dorey
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Post Brexit and Post-Covid: Reflections on the Contemporary Conservative Party. [PDF]
Polit Q, 2021 This article analyses the changing character of the contemporary Conservative Party. It argues that the period since the Brexit referendum has seen the creation of a new politics in which voter alignments have shifted, and that the experience of the ...
Peele G.
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‘All mouth and no trousers?’ How many Conservative Party members voted for UKIP in 2015 – and why did they do so? [PDF]
, 2017 A survey of ordinary members of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party carried out in 2013 revealed that nearly 30% of them would seriously consider voting for the country’s radical right wing populist party (United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP ...
Bale, Tim, Poletti, Monica, Webb, Paul
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Moderation through exclusion? The journey of the Tunisian Ennahda from fundamentalist to conservative party [PDF]
, 2013 The success of processes of democratic change is often predicated on the moderation of anti-systemic and extremist parties. The literature on such parties argues that such moderation, namely the acceptance of democratic procedures, human rights, and a ...
Cavatorta, Francesco, Merone, Fabio
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Conservative Party Statecraft and the Johnson Government
Political quarterly (London. 1930. Print), 2021 This article uses the statecraft framework outlined by Andrew Gamble to analyse the Conservative government of Boris Johnson. It argues that under Johnson, the Conservative Party is pursuing its most far-reaching statecraft strategy since the Thatcher ...
R. Hayton
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Political Studies, 2020 This article explores how the British Conservative Party has dealt with the dilemmas arising from its pursuit of two increasingly discordant goals: delivering Brexit and maintaining the domestic Union.
M. Kenny, Jack Sheldon
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Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique, 2020 Reforms to campaign finance laws at the beginning of the twenty-first century led to concerns that Canadian political parties would become more centralized, thereby altering the stratarchical arrangement between local party organizations and the national
Rob Currie-Wood
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Conservative Party policy for planning: caught between the market and local communities [PDF]
, 2010 Whether in power or in opposition, the planning policies of the Conservative Party are caught in a tension between the free market and local communities. On one hand, the Conservatives face developers who want to simplify the planning system, speed up
Goodchild, B.
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Euroscepticism of the Conservative Party and the Labour Party during the 2015 general election campaign [PDF]
Eastern Journal of European Studies, 2021 The United Kingdom had been a part of the European integration process since 1973. The 2016 referendum, in which British citizens voted to leave the EU, could be considered as an imaginary peak of tensions between the political priorities of the UK and ...
Ondřej DOLEŽEL
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Money matters: The financing of the Conservative party [PDF]
, 2004 The article examines the financing of the Conservative Party in the aftermath of the 2001 general election. An examination of the party's income and expenditure shows that pre-2001 patterns remain - the Conservatives are the poorer of the two main ...
Fisher, J
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