Jonathan Kirkup

The Lib-Lab Pact

A Parliamentary Agreement, 1977-78

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using archival sources and interviews with key participants, new insight is gained to how the Lib-Lab Pact of 1977-78 - an agreement, short of a full coalition - came about, was structured and implemented, and how Liberal leader, David Steel, might have achieved significant policy concessions on electoral reform.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-52768-4
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 259
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9781137527684
• ISBN-10: 1137527684
• Artikelnr.: 43228751

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Kirkup is Lecturer in Politics at Cardiff University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Cross
Party Co
Operation in British Politics, 1945
1977 2. Build Up to the Lib
Lab Pact, 1974
1977 3. Cross
Party Discussions, 17 March
20 March 1977 4. Lib
Lab Discussions, 17 March
23 March 1977 5. Cabinet Discussions on the Lib
Lab Agreement 6. The Lib
Lab Consultative Mechanism 7. Liberal Party Reaction to the Lib
Lab Pact 8. Policy Implications of the First Phase of the Pact 9. The Renewal of the Lib
Lab Agreement 10. The Second Period of the Lib
Lab Pact, July 1977
September 1977 11. Final Phase of the Lib
Lab Pact, October 1977
August 1978 Conclusion

Rezensionen

"This a highly incisive, thoroughly researched and intelligently analysed scholarly study of an overlooked aspect of British politics in the crisis-ridden 1970s. The author has forensically trawled the primary archival sources, and also conducted interviews with some of the key participants (including the then Liberal leader, David Steel), before proving a judicious and thoughtful conclusion. This is undoubtedly the definitive book, and essential reading, on this topic." - Peter Dorey, Cardiff University, UK