2010/10/01 by Ian Cawood · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Scottish History and National Identity #Irish and British Studies #Political and Economic history of UK and US #Liberal Party #Alliance #Appeal #Ideology #Politics #Dominance (genetics) #General election #House of Commons #Political science #Political economy #Realigning election #Law #Sociology #Parliament #Socialism
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/j.1750-0206.2010.00137.x
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This article seeks to establish that the 1892 general election marked a major change in the relative positions of the parties in the Unionist alliance. Not only did it reveal the limitations of the Liberal Unionist Party's strategy and appeal in an age of increasingly organised, mass politics, but it also acted as a brake on the ambitions of the new leader of the Liberal Unionists in the house of commons, Joseph Chamberlain. It argues that the Liberal Unionist Party suffered a more severe setback in 1892 than has been recognized hitherto and that Chamberlain's attempts to revive his party both before and after the general election were now prescribed by the reality of the political position in which the party now found itself. Rather than regarding the fluid political circumstances of the 1890s as the outcome of an emerging struggle between increasingly polarised ideologies, it seeks to reinforce the significance of local political circumstances and the efficacy of party management in the growing dominance of Lord Salisbury and Arthur Balfour and the Conservative central organisers.