![]() ![]() The Scottish and Welsh Nationalists both won 2 seats, and 12 MPs were also elected for other parties in Northern Ireland. The Liberals attracted 13.8 per cent (4,313,204) of the votes cast, and 11 seats. ![]() The Labour Party obtained 37 per cent (11,532,218) of the votes cast, and 269 seats. The Conservatives secured 43.9 per cent (13,697,923) of the votes cast, and 339 seats, which meant that they had a majority of 43 in the House of Commons. 1 Only 76 per cent of those entitled to vote in the 1979 Election did so. With the Tories having no particular need to win the voters over, and, of course, no wish to alarm the electorate, what was simply called The Conservative Manifesto 1979 was a cautious document, which, indeed, stated that ‘those who look in these pages for lavish promises or detailed commitments on every subject will look in vain’. Here Critchlow foresees a new epoch in which the old conservative-progressive divide is unable to address the problems caused by national debt, entitlement deficits, and a new global economy-a new reality sure to transform both parties.Īs conservatives continue to wave the banners of limited government, individual responsibility, and free enterprise, Critchlow’s book provides a clear guide to the country’s most dynamic political movement and is essential reading for students and citizens alike as the political center continues to tack to the right.After the excitements of the Winter of Discontent and the Labour Government’s dramatic fall and Airey Neave’s murder by Irish terrorists at the outset of the campaign, the General Election of proved to be an anti climax, not least because some form of Conservative victory was always overwhelmingly the most likely outcome. This updated edition not only features a new preface and conclusion but also boasts an entirely new chapter covering the 2008 presidential election, the 2008 financial meltdown, the first two years of Obama’s presidency, the emergence of the Tea Party, the 2010 midterms, and ongoing economic problems. Throughout he delineates the intellectual foundations of the Right’s positions-including the ongoing schism that separates social conservatives from libertarians-while plumbing America's increasing ideological divide. Bush injected into American politics a level of partisanship not seen since the nineteenth century.Ĭritchlow recounts the conflict between purity of principle and political practice for conservatives, and the dilemma of maintaining an anti-statist ideology in an era of mass democracy and Cold War hostilities. ![]() Looking back at the 1964 Goldwater debacle and the scandal-plagued Nixon years, he then revisits the triumph of the Reagan presidency and describes how George W. He shows how conservatives, from think tank theorists to grassroots mobilizers, gained control of the Republican party by defeating its liberal eastern wing only to find that the welfare state was not so easily dismantled. In tracing the conservative revival, Critchlow chronicles how conservative beliefs were translated into political power. ![]() Newly updated and available for the first time in paperback, it continues to offer the best account of the conservative struggle to reverse the momentum of the New Deal. Hailed as “perhaps the best scholarly overview of the conservative movement in print” ( American Conservative), Donald Critchlow's The Conservative Ascendancy has depicted, as no other book has, the wild ride of the Republican Right. ![]()
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