The British Conservative Party: Ideology and Citizenship

Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction: Citizenship and the conservatives
	A brief history of citizenship
	Citizenship and the conservative tradition
	The post-war British citizenship debate
	The book’s structure
1 Margaret Thatcher’s ‘active citizen’: Placing civil society at the centre of citizenship
	The welfare state and the ‘new right’
	Thatcherism and ‘active citizenship’
	The responsible individual
	Does the state have a role?
	Civil society as a nursery of citizenship
	The market as an educational tool? ‘Popular capitalism’
	Rights and duties
	Thatcher’s third term and the idea of an ‘active citizen’
	Neoliberalism or communitarianism?
	Thatcher’s conservative idea of citizenship
	Conclusion
2 John Major’s Citizen’s Charter and the consumer citizen
	The 1990s
	Rethinking conservatism?
	The Citizen’s Charter
	The state, the market, and the meanings of citizenship
	The debate around the charter as a Thatcherite policy
	The administrative and organizational reforms
	The consumer and the active citizen
	Conclusion
3 New Labour and Conservative Party reconstruction
	New Labour: from reinvention to power
	Communities, public service and citizenship
	Conservative crises and the party’s ‘modernization’
	Conservative leaders in opposition
	Reinventing conservative ideology: compassionate and civic conservatism
	Conclusion
4 The ideology behind the Big Society: ‘There is such thing as society’
	The conservatives and the British in the early twenty-first century
	Conservative modernizers
	The ideology of the ‘new’ conservatives
	The 2008 crisis and the 2010 coalition: was modernization threatened?
	The Big Society: a redefined idea of citizenship
		The state as the Big Government
		Rebuilding civil society
		The individual and social action
	Big Society: traditions and ideas
	Cameron’s citizenship
	Conclusion
Conclusion
Index