By E. H. H. Green, D. M. Tanner
It is usually assumed that politicians are swept alongside by way of worldwide forces and affects, with out the facility - or the need - to form occasions. in contrast, this publication is anxious with the best way that cultural values, person ethical sentiments and politicians' interpretation of monetary and different imperatives have helped to form political values. targeting the 19th and 20th centuries, and containing contributions by way of a sequence of well-known students, subject matters are constructed via essays on recognisably vital occasions and figures. matters contain the coverage rules of W. E. Gladstone, Woodrow Wilson's aid for struggle in 1916 and Ramsay MacDonald's position within the 1931 quandary. different essays study the way in which that Keynesian principles have been understood and used around the social gathering spectrum, and past Britain itself, or consider the connection among principles, values and politics. This quantity additionally celebrates and represents an method of ancient writing which has obtained little consciousness from students.
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Nonetheless, conceptually the empirical sections built on Clarke’s interest in political science. 104 A subsequent generation of Clarke’s students were equally indebted to his later work. Richard Toye extended Clarke’s ideas on leadership, on Keynes’s impact within the Labour party and on the representational value of Keynes’s ideas. James Thompson added to knowledge of the ways in which Progressive ideas crossed not just internal political boundaries within the UK, but international geographical boundaries as well.
192. 22 Ewen Green and Duncan Tanner the relative role of pragmatism and doctrine inside government. Keynes had been actively involved in politics in the 1920s, structuring his ideas in ways that were relevant to the programmatic needs of the Liberal party in 1929 and the policy needs of Labour in 1930. 91 However, for a period in the 1930s, Keynes turned his back on the political reception of his ideas and addressed the General Theory to his ‘fellow economists’. 92 This was a major departure from earlier approaches to Keynes.
However, he was also drawing attention to the fact that Cripps, like the individuals discussed in his 2002 Ford Lectures, had been read and represented in different ways by different groups and individuals. Here was another – Cripps’s own version, made possible because Clarke had been granted full access to his private diary and other similar papers. The different ‘versions’ of Cripps were summed up with typical panache. 102 This was a story of an individual – and his ideas – located and understood not just within a life history, but within that life history’s representation by other people and by Cripps himself.
