| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Routledge studies in modern British history |
| Contents |
Margaret Thatcher's 'acive citizen': placing civil society at the centre of citizenship -- The Welfare State and the 'New Right' -- Thatcherism and 'active citizenship' -- The responsible individual -- Does the state have a role? -- Civil Society as a nursery of citizenship -- The market as an educational tool? 'Popular capitalism' -- Rights and duties -- Thatcher's third term and the idea of an 'active citizenship' -- Neoliberalism or communitarianism? -- The new Conservative idea of citizenship -- Conclusion -- John Major's Citizen's Charter and the consumer citizen -- An ideal successor? -- The 1990s and Major's administration -- Ideology, citizenship and The Citizen's Charter -- What was the Charter about? -- The state, the market, and the meanings of citizenship -- The debate around the Charter as a Thatcherite policy -- The administrative and organisational reforms -- The consumer and the active citizen -- Conclusion -- The New Labour Era and Conservative Party reconstruction -- New Labour: From reinvention to power -- Communities, public service, and citizenship -- Conservative crises and the party's 'modernization' -- Conservative leaders in opposition -- Reinventing conservative ideology: Compassionate and Civic Conservatism -- Conclusion -- The ideology behind the Big Society: 'There is such thing as society' -- The Conservatives and the British in the early twenty-first century -- Conservative modernizers -- The ideology of the 'new' Conservatives -- The 2008 crisis and the 2010 coalition: was modernization threatened? -- Big Society and a redefined idea of citizenship -- The state as Big Government -- Rebuilding civil society -- The individual and social action -- Big Society: traditions and ideas |
| Summary |
"Citizenship has been an ill-explored subject within Conservative Party studies. When this subject has been analysed, it is usually made by scholars of citizenship, more concerned with general overviews than understanding specific Conservative approaches to the concept. This book intends to fill this gap. Through a rigorous analysis of sources, the author explores how the Conservative Party contested the welfare model of citizenship and sought to recreate a new relationship between the individual, the state and civil society. Starting from Thatcher's idea of 'active citizenship' and going through the analysis of John Major's 'Citizen's Charter' and David Cameron's 'Big Society' project, the book sheds new light on how these developments responded to long-term problems while dialoguing with specific circumstances and the different Conservative leaders' ideas. From an ideological perspective, the author analyses how these leaders echoed and re-signified more traditional political ideas and ideologies while negotiating with and borrowing new flourishing concepts during those years. Far from being a unidimensional citizenship concept, in reinterpreting old ideas and utilizing new ones, these Conservatives elaborated a complex and many times contradictory citizenship model that tried to address both long-lasting and more timely issues that overlapped in British society"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Lenon Campos Maschette is Postdoctoral Fellow in Politics at the State University of Campinas and holds a PhD in History from the University of Sô Paulo. His research interests include political ideologies with a focus on ideologies of the right. Some of their publications are Citizenship and ideology in David Cameron’s ’Big Society’ (2023) and Was there a legislative moral agenda in Thatcher’s administration? (2021) |
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Conservative Party (Great Britain)
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Conservatism -- Great Britain
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HISTORY / General
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HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056922
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2023041983 |
| ISBN |
9781003394853 |
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100339485X |
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9781003849902 |
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1003849903 |
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9781003849964 |
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1003849962 |
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