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Author_Ross McKibbin
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Product details
- ISBN 9780199584697
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 146 x 224mm
- Publication Date: 25 Mar 2010
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The 'sequel' to his best-selling Classes and Cultures, Ross McKibbin's latest book is a powerful reinterpretation of British politics in the first decades of universal suffrage. What did it mean to be a 'democratic society'? To what extent did voters make up their own minds on politics or allow elites to do it for them?
Exploring the political culture of these extraordinary years, Parties and People shows that class became one of the principal determinants of political behaviour, although its influence was often surprisingly weak.
McKibbin argues that the kind of democracy that emerged in Britain was far from inevitable-as much historical accident as design-and was in many ways highly flawed.
