The Republican Transformation of Modern British Politics

'The left had long talked of destroying the British Establishment; the Right did it.' This is an original study of a major change in the political thinking of modern Britain. In a re-evaluation of contemporary history, it is argued that the period between 1956 and 1968 saw a seminal change which created the ideological framework of today's politics. A republican tradition of active citizenship, community and democracy was developed within the Marxist language of the new Left. Their socialism prevented them breaking with the idea of a state-directed economy, but radical Liberals around Jo Grimond and the Unservile State group developed this republican politics in the direction of a citizen market. The Right completed the new political framework through their republican version of a property-owners democracy, developed from the politics of Michael Oakeshott and Enoch Powell. Contemporary political thinking has developed from both the Left and the Right of this period.

ISBN 0333734963   Pages 240 ISBN13 9780333734964 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan   Weight (grammes) 416 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan   Published in Basingstoke Format Hardback   Height (mm) 224 Publication date 10 Nov 2005   Width (mm) 144 Library of Congress 2005049202   Spine width (mm) 17 DEWEY 324.241   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

		Introduction : the republican idea		1
1		Socialist humanism and republican theory		15
2		The transposition of republican thought		43
3		The radical republicans		63
4		Jo Grimond and the Unservile State		89
5		A republicanism of the right		114
6		The importance of Enoch		139
7		The republic of the suburbs		162

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