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

Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Irish Potatoes and British Politics: Peel, Wellington, and the Repeal of the Corn Laws -- Appendix 2.1: Variables Used in the Rollcall Analysis -- 3. Dishing the Whigs: Disraeli, Salisbury, and the Relaunching of the Tory Party 1846-86 -- 4. The Great Victorian Realignment -- 5. The Failure of Imperialism: Joseph Chamberlain and Enoch Powell -- Appendix 5.1: Did Enoch Powell win the 1970 General Election for the Conservatives? Did he win the February 1974 General Election for Labour? -- 6. Lloyd George: Supreme Tactician and Ambitious Strategist -- 7. The Patriot Game: Rhetoric and Heresthetic in the Anglo-Irish Treaty Negotiations of 1921 -- Appendix 7.1: Articles of Agreement for a Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland, December 6, 1921 -- Appendix 7.2: Extracts from the Diary of Erskine Childers 1870-1922, Secretary to the Irish Delegation -- Appendix 7.3: Preference Orderings -- Appendix 7.4: The Irish Decision Sequence, 5 December 1921 -- 8. 'There is no alternative': Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

This engaging and original study, by one of Britain's leading scholars of rational choice theory, explores the course of British parliamentary politics over the last 150 years. McLean marries an appealing combination of social science and analytical narrative history to the great turning points in British politics.

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