The Lib-Lab Pact: A Parliamentary Agreement, 1977-78
Jonathan Kirkup
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Description for The Lib-Lab Pact: A Parliamentary Agreement, 1977-78
Hardback. Using archival sources and interviews with key participants, new insight is gained to how the Lib-Lab Pact of 1977-78 - an agreement, short of a full coalition - came about, was structured and implemented, and how Liberal leader, David Steel, might have achieved significant policy concessions on electoral reform. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 black & white tables, 1 graphs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPL; HBJD1; HBLW; JPL; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
Using archival sources and interviews with key participants, new insight is gained to how the Lib-Lab Pact of 1977-78 - an agreement, short of a full coalition - came about, was structured and implemented, and how Liberal leader, David Steel, might have achieved significant policy concessions on electoral reform.
Using archival sources and interviews with key participants, new insight is gained to how the Lib-Lab Pact of 1977-78 - an agreement, short of a full coalition - came about, was structured and implemented, and how Liberal leader, David Steel, might have achieved significant policy concessions on electoral reform.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
259
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137527684
SKU
V9781137527684
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Ref
99-15
About Jonathan Kirkup
Jonathan Kirkup is Lecturer in Politics at Cardiff University, UK.
Reviews for The Lib-Lab Pact: A Parliamentary Agreement, 1977-78
This a highly incisive, thoroughly researched and intelligently analysed scholarly study of an overlooked aspect of British politics in the crisis-ridden 1970s. The author has forensically trawled the primary archival sources, and also conducted interviews with some of the key participants (including the then Liberal leader, David Steel), before proving a judicious and thoughtful conclusion. This is undoubtedly the definitive ... Read more