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SDP : the birth, life and death of the Social Democratic Party
- Title
- SDP : the birth, life and death of the Social Democratic Party / Ivor Crewe and Anthony King.
- Author
- Crewe, Ivor.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- King, Anthony, 1934-2017.
- Description
- xxiv, 611 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Launched on a wave of euphoria in 1981, the SDP aroused the hopes and enthusiasm of millions of people. Promising to break the mould of British politics, its leaders included four of the most respected figures in British public life - Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Shirley Williams and Bill Rodgers. But the SDP failed. Despite winning, with the Liberals, a quarter of the vote in two general elections, by the autumn of 1987 it had disintegrated amidst acrimony and bitter infighting. This book, based on unprecedented access to the SDP's archive, analyses in detail the reasons for its early success and its ultimate demise.
- Subjects
- Great Britain
- Political parties
- 1979-1997
- History
- Social democratic party (GB) Histoire
- Social Democratic Party (Great Britain)
- Social Democratic Party 1990-
- Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1979-1997
- Great Britain > Politics and government > 1979-1997
- Großbritannien
- Sozialdemokratische Partei, Parteigeschichte
- Politics and government
- 15.70 history of Europe
- Political parties > Great Britain > History
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 588-597) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Pre-History: 1964-1979 -- 2. The Gang of Three -- 3. Jenkins and the Jenkinsites -- 4. Anguish: 'Severe Mental Pain' -- 5. Born in Despair -- 6. Defectors and Loyalists -- 7. What Kind of Party, and Whose? -- 8. The Golden Age: March-December 1981 -- 9. Jenkins as Leader: 1982-1983 -- 10. A 'Partnership of Principle' -- 11. Disappointment: June 1983 -- 12. New Institutions for a New Party -- 13. Machinery, Members and Money -- 14. A Media Party? -- 15. The Party of a New Class? -- 16. The SDP, the Alliance and the Electorate -- 17. The Owen Ascendancy I: 1983-1985 -- 18. The Owen Ascendancy II: 1985-1987 -- 19. Humiliation: June 1987 -- 20. The SDP Disintegrates: 1987-1988 -- 21. Of Merger and a Dead Parrot -- 22. Who Was to Blame? -- 23. The SDP: A Study in Failure -- App. 1. Former Labour MPs, Not Elected to the 1979 Parliament, who Joined the SDP -- App. 2. SDP Peers -- App. 3. Potential Recruits to the SDP who Remained in the Labour Party.
- ISBN
- 0198280505
- 9780198280507
- 0198293135
- 9780198293132
- LCCN
- 96124555
- OCLC
- ocm33878501
- 33878501
- SCSB-2082191
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library