Gillian Peele - David Cameron and Conservative Renewal: The Limits of Modernisation?

David Cameron and Conservative renewal

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Richard Hayton

The study of conservative politics, broadly defined, is of enduring scholarly interest and importance, and is also of great significance beyond the academy. In spite of this, for a variety of reasons the study of conservatism and conservative politics was traditionally regarded as something of a poor relation in comparison to the intellectual interest in the Left. In the British context this changed with the emergence of Thatcherism, which prompted a greater critical focus on the Conservative Party and its ideology, and a revitalisation of Conservative historiography. New Perspectives on the Right aims to build on this legacy by establishing a series identity for work in this field. It will publish the best and most innovative titles drawn from the fields of sociology, history, cultural studies and political science and hopes to stimulate debate and interest across disciplinary boundaries. New Perspectives is not limited in its historical coverage or geographical scope, but is united by its concern to critically interrogate and better understand the history, development, intellectual basis and impact of the Right. Nor is the series restricted by its methodological approach: it will encourage original research from a plurality of perspectives. Consequently, the series will act as a voice and forum for work by scholars engaging with the politics of the right in new and imaginative ways.

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Richard Hayton

Conservative orators from Baldwin to Cameron

Edited by Richard Hayton and Andrew S. Crines

The right and the recession

Edward Ashbee

The territorial Conservative Party: Devolution and party change in Scotland and Wales

Alan Convery

David Cameron and Conservative renewal

The limits of modernisation?

Edited by

Gillian Peele and John Francis

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Introduction: the politics of Conservative renewal
Gillian Peele and John Francis

1 David Camerons leadership and party renewal
Gillian Peele

2 Constructing a new conservatism? Ideology and values
Richard Hayton

3 Policies under Cameron: modernisation abandoned
Peter Dorey

4 The Conservative Party and a changing electorate
Matthew Burbank and John Francis

5 The parliamentary party
Philip Cowley, Mark Stuart and Tiffany Trenner-Lyle

6 Continuing fault lines and new threats: European integration and the rise of UKIP
Philip Lynch and Richard Whitaker

7 The evolving Conservative Party membership
Tim Bale and Paul Webb

8 Conclusion: a limited Conservative renewal?
Gillian Peele and John Francis

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Tim Bale is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary, University of London where he specialises in comparative party politics. In 2016 his book The Conservatives since 1945 (Oxford University Press) went into paperback, as well as a new edition of The Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron (Polity).

Matthew Burbank is an associate professor in political science at the University of Utah where he teaches courses on political behaviour and research methods. His research focuses on political participation, political parties, and urban politics and policy. His most recent co-authored book is Parties, Interest Groups, and Political Campaigns (2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 2012).

Philip Cowley is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary, University of London. His recent publications include (with Dennis Kavanagh) The British General Election of 2015 (Palgrave 2015) and (edited with Robert Ford) Sex, Lies and the Ballot Box (Biteback, 2015).

Peter Dorey is Professor of British Politics at Cardiff University. He is the author of British Conservatism: The Politics and Philosophy of Inequality (I.B. Tauris, 2011). He is the co-author of The British Coalition Government, 20102015: A Marriage of Inconvenience (Palgrave, 2016) and of The Political Rhetoric and Oratory of Margaret Thatcher (Palgrave, 2016).

John Francis is Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah where he specialises in elections, regulatory policy and comparative politics. His most recent publications are two works with Leslie P. Francis: Sustaining Surveillance (Springer, 2016) and Privacy: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Richard Hayton is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Leeds, and the Convenor of the Political Studies Associations Conservatives and Conservatism Specialist Group. He has published extensively on British party politics and is the author of Reconstructing Conservatism? The Conservative Party in Opposition, 19972010 (Manchester University Press, 2012).

Philip Lynch is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Leicester. His recent publications include articles on the Conservative Party and European integration, party competition between the Conservatives and UKIP, and the Conservatives in the European Parliament. His latest book is (with Mark Garnett) Exploring British Politics (4th ed., Longman, 2016).

Gillian Peele is Fellow and Tutor in Politics, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She has published widely on British, American and comparative politics. Her most recent work is (with David Hine) The Regulation of Standards in British Public Life: Doing the Right Thing? (Manchester University Press, 2016)

Mark Stuart is an assistant professor at the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely in the areas of Westminster parliamentary rebellions, UK political parties and political biography. His latest biography, to be published late next year, covers the colourful life of the late Eric Forth, Conservative MP from 1983 to 2006.

Tiffany Trenner-Lyle has been a researcher for Philip Cowley and Mark Stuart on their work about parliamentary rebellions. She has had other work on British politics and current affairs published regularly in the