The future of conservatism

Political Quarterly

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 324-332

  Norton, Philip ^a,b  

^a Department of Government ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservatism; Conservative Party; David Cameron

Indexed keywords

EID: 53849146732     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: 1467923X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2008.00935.x     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Michael Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays, London, Methuen, 1962, p. 168.
2. F. C. J. Hearnshaw, Conservatism in England, London, Macmillan, 1933.
3. See Philip Norton and Arthur Aughey, Conservatives and Conservatism, London, Temple Smith, 1981.
4. See Philip Norton, 'Philosophy: The principles of Conservatism', in Philip Norton, ed., The Conservative Party, London, Prentice-Hall./ Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1996, pp. 68-82.
5. Andrew J. Davies, We the Nation: The Conservative Party and the Pursuit of Power, London, Little, Brown, 1995, pp. 447-8.
6. Ted Honderich, Conservatism, London, Penguin Books, 1991;
7. see Philip Norton, 'Introduction: The party in perspective', in Norton, The Conservative Party, pp. 4-5.
8. See Philip Norton, 'The Conservative party: The politics of panic', in John Bartle and Anthony King, eds, Britain at the Polls 2005, Washington, DC, Congressional Quarterly Press, 2006, pp. 44-7.
9. Norton, 'Introduction', pp. 1-14.
10. Philip Norton, 'The Conservative party: "In office but not in power" ', in Anthony King, ed., New Labour Triumphs: Britain at the Polls, Chatham, NJ, Chatham House, 1998, pp. 76-8.
11. Robert Blake, 'Why the stupid party usually wins', The Times, 7 September 1995, p. 34.
12. Anthony Seldon and Stuart Ball, eds, Conservative Century, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994.
13. On retrospective voting, see Morris Fiorina, Retrospective Voting in American National Elections, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1981.
14. Stuart Ball, 'The Conservatives in opposition, 1906-1979', in Mark Garnett and Philip Lynch, eds, The Conservatives in Crisis, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2003, p. 26.
15. I.e., the electoral centre rather than the ideological centre, conveying that the party is close to the median position of electors in their ascription of where they stand.
16. Philip Norton, 'The Conservative party from Thatcher to Major', in Anthony King, ed., Britain at the Polls, Chatham, NJ, Chatham House, 1993, pp. 32-3.
17. See Ivor Crewe and Donald Searing, 'Ideological change in the British Conservative party', American Political Science Review, vol. 82,1988, p. 377.
18. Simon Price and David Sanders, 'Economic expectations and voting intentions in the UK, 1979-87: A pooled cross-section approach', Political Studies, vol. 43, 1995, p. 470.
19. Norton, 'The Conservative party: The politics of panic', pp. 48-9.
20. Michael Ashcroft, Smell the Coffee: A Wakeup Call for the Conservative Party, London, Michael Ashcroft, 2005.
21. Peter Riddell, 'Tories shrug off Conway affair to stretch their poll lead over Labour', The Times, 5 February 208, p. 2.
22. Norton and Aughey, Conservatives and Conservatism, p. 28.
23. See Philip Norton, 'The Constitution', in Kevin Hickson, ed., The Political Thought of the Conservative Party since 1945, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp. 93-112.
24. See Philip Norton, 'Adding value? The role of second chambers', Asia Pacific Law Review, vol. 15, no. 1, 2007, pp. 3-18
25. See Norton, 'Adding value?'.