Rational Choice and British Politics: An Analysis of Rhetoric and Manipulation from Peel to Blair

Contents......Page 12
List of Tables......Page 13
List of Figures......Page 15
1. Introduction......Page 16
2. Irish Potatoes and British Politics: Peel, Wellington, and the Repeal of the Corn Laws......Page 48
Appendix 2.1: Variables Used in the Rollcall Analysis......Page 70
3. Dishing the Whigs: Disraeli, Salisbury, and the Relaunching of the Tory Party 1846–86......Page 72
4. The Great Victorian Realignment......Page 102
5. The Failure of Imperialism: Joseph Chamberlain and Enoch Powell......Page 128
Appendix 5.1: Did Enoch Powell win the 1970 General Election for the Conservatives? Did he win the February 1974 General Election for Labour?......Page 160
6. Lloyd George: Supreme Tactician and Ambitious Strategist......Page 168
7. The Patriot Game: Rhetoric and Heresthetic in the Anglo-Irish Treaty Negotiations of 1921......Page 184
Appendix 7.1: Articles of Agreement for a Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland, December 6, 1921......Page 209
Appendix 7.2: Extracts from the Diary of Erskine Childers 1870–1922, Secretary to the Irish Delegation......Page 213
Appendix 7.3: Preference Orderings......Page 216
Appendix 7.4: The Irish Decision Sequence, 5 December 1921......Page 218
8. ‘There is no alternative’: Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair......Page 219
9. Conclusion......Page 246
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