Labour's Grass Roots: The Politics of Party Membership - Brossura

Seyd, Patrick

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ISBN 10: 0198273584 ISBN 13: 9780198273585

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2003

Riassunto

Political parties are the driving force behind liberal democracy, yet knowledge of who belongs to them and why is almost nonexistent. This work attempts to provide the first national profile of the social background, characteristics, attitudes and values, as well as the political experiences and activities of Labour Party members in Great Britain.

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Recensione

`keenly awaited.'Hugo Young, The Guardian

`Seyd and Whiteley's impressively thorough analysis ... explores the links between social class, self-identification on a Left-Right scale, policy positions and attitudes to party reforms ... a wealth of fact.'Jeff Lovitt, Tribune

`provides a devastating insight ... very valuable information' Socialist Worker

`The authors evidently want to reach two audiences - their fellow academics and the Labour hierarchy ... Their material is unique and their methodology impeccable. Both their audiences should sit up and take notice ... The authors have shone a torch into one of the least-explored areas of British politics.'The Economist

`a vitally important book.'New Times

abour's Grass Roots is the most important book to be published about Labour this year.'Chartist

'the first detailed account of what Labour Party members think, what motivates them and what role they play in our political system ... a valuable source of information about Labour Party members'Ben Lucas, Renewal, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1993

'invaluable as the first detailed survey-based study of the party's members. It contains a wealth of straightforward descriptive material'Parliamentary Affairs, January 1993

'empirically-rich study of Labour's rank-and-file ... Seyd and Whiteley's gratifying new book provides the scholarly community with a coherent and methodologically-grounded account of the sociological and political contours of the party's membership'Kent Worcester, Social Science Research Council, British Politics Group Newsletter, No. 71, Winter 1993

`The material from the author's specially mounted representative survey of activists is clearly and crisply presented in a fashion which all students of politics will find readily accessible ... The book as a whole is thought provoking and germane to many of the debates currently being conducted within the Labour Party, and we should, indeed, look forward to a companion text on the Conservative Party.'Parliamentary Affairs

L'autore

Patrick Seyd is at University of Sheffield. Paul Whiteley is at College of William and Mary, Virginia.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0198273584
• ISBN 13: 9780198273585
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Contatto del produttore: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italia