Title AUGMENTING DEMOCRACY : political movements and constitutional reform during the rise of labour ..., 1900-1924

Published [Place of publication not identified] : ROUTLEDGE, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part One: A Panoramic Approach; Introduction; Class, socialism and labour history; The nineteenth century and all that'; The influence of non-socialist ideas: some precursors; Radicalism and constitutionalism: revisionist approaches; 1. 'Left' and 'Constitution' in Early Twentieth-Century Britain; An inclusive definition; 'Constitutionalism' and the 'constitution'; Three studies; 2. Ideas, Communication and Public Political Discourse; Historical postmodernism revis(it)ed Ideas and communication practices: a taxonomyDesiderata for the public political discourse approach; Authors, texts, audiences and contexts; Print culture and the multiple, overlapping public spheres of oppositional politics; Part Two: Aristocracy or the People? The Edwardian Constitutional Crisis; 3. Constructing an Anti-Lords Alliance; The origins and context of the Edwardian constitutional crisis; Constructing the enemy; Radicalism, labourism and socialism; 4. Crisis and Reform; Constitutional innovation?; The single chamber option; The reformed chamber option; The 'smash the veto' option Part Three: Constitutionalism and Citizenship: the Struggle for the Vote5. First Wave Feminism and the Significance of the Vote; Prelude, 1912: the convergence of suffragists, radicals, labourists and socialists on the Election Fighting Fund; The significance of the vote; The political context: 'adultism', 'limited suffragism' and indifference; The divide and its points of weakness; 6. Constructing a Suffragist Alliance; The discourses of 'citizenship'; The appeal to history; Uncoupling 'liberalism' from 'Liberalism'; Reprise: the Election Fighting Fund, 1912-1914; Tensions caused by the EFF The WSPU's rejection7. War and Reform; War and the tacit continuation of the alliance; Citizens without citizenship; Reform; Part Four: 'Equality, Equity and Truth'? Proportional Representation; 8. Minorities, Parties and the Progressive Alliance; Electoral reform or electoral pact?; The revival of the Proportional Representation Society; MacDonaldite/Fabian rejection; 9. A Fragile, Partial Alliance; Radicals, labourists and socialists; Constitutionalism, 'fairness' and 'electoral justice'; The 1918 Reform Act, feminism and failure; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Labour Party (Great Britain) -- History SUBJECT Labour Party (Great Britain) fast Subject Socialism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Liberalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference. Liberalism Politics and government Socialism SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1910-1936. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056918 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780429460432 0429460430 9780429863691 0429863691 0429863705 9780429863707

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