Browsing School of Politics & International Relations by Author "JEFFERY, DMJ"
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The Strange Death of Tory Liverpool: Conservative Electoral Decline in Liverpool, 1945-1996
JEFFERY, DMJ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016-10-25)In modern discourse Liverpool is a by-word for anti-Tory sentiment, yet the city has not always been so inhospitable for the Conservatives. From the mid-18th century until the 1970s the Conservatives dominated the city ... -
The United Kingdom Government and the 0.7 Percent International Aid Target: Factors influencing attitudes amongst Conservative Parliamentarians
JEFFERY, DMJ; Heppell, T; Crines, A (SAGE Publications, 2017-09-06)This is the first article to use a detailed dataset of the 2010 - 2015 Parliamentary Conservative Party (PCP) to identify the drivers of MPs’ positions on legally enshrining a commitment to spend 0.7% of gross national ... -
The United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: The Voting of Conservative Parliamentarians
Heppell, T; Crines, AS; JEFFERY, DMJThispaperconsiderstheattitudesofmembersoftheparliamentaryConservativeParty(PCP)duringtheEuropean Union (EU) membership referendum held in the United Kingdom (UK) on the 23rd June 2016. First, the paper identifies the voting ...