This engaging and original study, by one of Britain's leading scholars of rational choice theory, explores the course of British parliamentary politics over the last 150 years. McLean marries an appealing combination of social science and analytical narrative history to the great turning points in British politics - the Repeal of the Corn Law; the Victorian crisis of the Liberal and Conservative Parties; the Irish Question and Lloyd George's solution to it; the New
Liberal origins of the welfare state; the politics of race and empire under Chamberlain and Powell; and the politics of 'there is no alternative' under Margaret Thatcher.
- ISBN10 6612052449
- ISBN13 9786612052446
- Publish Date 5 April 2001
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 11 January 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 272
- Language English