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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: POLITICAL SCIENCE THE POLITICS OF THE LABOUR PARTY THE POLITICS OF THE LABOUR PARTY Edited by DENNIS KAVANAGH Volume 55 First published 1982 This edition first published in 2010 by Routledge 2Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USAand Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor &Francis Group, an informa business Editorial Selection © 1982 Dennis Kavanagh Individual chapters © Dennis Kavanagh, Ivor Crewe, Philip Williams, Hugh Berrington, Paul Whiteley, L. J. Sharpe, Colin Crouch, Robert McKenzie All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechan- ical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Acatalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 10: 0-415-49111-8 (Set) ISBN 13: 978-0-415-49111-2 (Set) ISBN 10: 0-415-55597-3 (Volume 55) ISBN 13: 978-0-415-55597-5 (Volume 55) Publisher’s Note The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original copies may be apparent. Disclaimer The publisher has made every effort to trace copyright holders and would welcome correspondence from those they have been unable to trace. The Politics of the Labour Party Edited by DENNIS KAVANAGH London GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN Boston Sydney ©Editorial Selection, Dennis Kavanagh, 1982; ©Individual chapters: Dennis Kavanagh, Ivor Crewe, Philip Williams, Hugh Derrington, Paul Whiteley, L. J. Sharpe, Colin Crouch, Robert McKenzie, I 982. This book is copyright under the Berne Convention. No reproduction without permission. All rights reserved. George Allen & Unwin (Publishers) Ltd, 40 Museum Street, London WCIA ILU, UK George Allen & Unwin (Publishers) Ltd, Park Lane, Heme! Hempstead, Herts HP2 4TE, UK Allen & Unwin, Inc., 9 Winchester Terrace, Winchester, Mass. OI890, USA George Allen & Unwin Australia Pty Ltd, 8 Napier Street, North Sydney, NSW 2060, Australia First published in I 982. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data The Politics of the Labour Party. I. Labour Party (Great Britain) I. Kavanagh, Dennis 324.24107 JN1129.L3 ISBN 0-04-329037-X ISBN 0-04-329038-8 Pbk Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: The Politics of the Labour Party. "Selection from papers which were originally presented at a conference ... at Nuffield College, Oxford, in September I980"-Pref. Includes index. Contents: Introduction/by Dennis Kavanagh - The Labour Party and the electorate/by Ivor Crewe-Changing styles of Labour leadership/by Philip Williams-[etc.) I. Labour Party (Great Britain)-Congresses. 2. Great Britain - Politics and government - I945- - Congresses. I. Kavanagh, Dennis. JNII29.L33 I982 324.24I07 8I-22803 ISBN 0-04-329037-X AACR2 ISBN 0-04-329038-8 (pbk). Set in II on I I point Times by Performance Typesetting Ltd, Milton Keynes and printed in Great Britain by Biddies Ltd, Guildford, Surrey Dedicated to the memory of Robert T. McKenzie 1917-1981 List of Contributors Hugh Herrington, Professor ofP olitics, University ofN ewcastle upon Tyne Ivor Crewe, Director, Social Science Research Archive and British Election Study, University ofE ssex Colin Crouch, Reader in Sociology, The London School ofE conomics and Political Science Dennis Kavanagh, Professor ofP olitics, Nottingham University Robert McKenzie, Professor ofP olitical Sociology, London School ofE conomics (until his death in 1981) L. J. Sharpe, Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University Philip Williams, Fellow ofN uffield College, Oxford University Paul Whiteley, Lecturer in Politics, Bristol University Contents List of Contributors page viii Preface xi Introduction by Dennis Kavanagh 1 1 The Labour Party and the Electorate by Ivor Crewe 9 2 Changing Styles of Labour Leadership by Philip Williams 50 3 The Labour Left in Parliament: Maintenance, Erosion and Renewal by Hugh Berrington 69 4 Still the Workers' Party? Changing Social Trends in Elite Recruitment and Electoral Support by Dennis Kavanagh 95 5 The Decline of Labour's Local Party Membership and Electoral Base, 1945-79 by Paul Whiteley 111 6 The Labour Party and the Grography of Inequality: a Puzzle by L. J. Shapre 135 7 The Peculiar Relationship: the Party and the Unions by Colin Crouch 17 1 8 Power in the Labour Party: the Issue of'Intra-Party Democracy' by Robert McKenzie 191 9 Representation in the Labour Party by Dennis Kavanagh 202 Index 223 Preface These chapters are a selection from papers which were originally pre sented at a conference on The Politics of the Labour Party at Nuffield College, Oxford, in September 1980. The papers were then revised for publication during 1981. Other papers, presented at the conference but not published in this volume, were read by David Butler on 'Labour and Europe', Patrick Seyd on 'Labour and the left in the 1970s', David Lipsey on 'Labour's left and right' and Bernard Crick on 'Labour and the intellectuals'. A small grant from the SSRC helped to meet the costs of organising the conference. Like many other students of politics I am happy to acknowledge the generous support of the Council and the hospitality provided by Nuffield College. This book is dedicated to the memory of Robert McKenzie, Professor of Political Sociology at the London School of Economics. He was both famous and admired as a student of British political parties and as a television broadcaster. Bob had been a lively and disputatious participant in our conference. His sudden death in October 1981 came as a great shock to his fellow-contributors. Bob faced many demands on his time and the editor had to cajole him to submit his manuscript on time. I am proud that I pursued him and delighted to carry his last published word on the Labour Party. Dennis Kavanagh
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