Postwar Conservatism, A Transnational Investigation (eBook)

Clarisse Berthezène is an Associate Professor in modern British History at Paris Diderot University, France. She is the author of Training minds for the war of ideas: The Conservative Party, Ashridge College and the cultural politics of Britain, 1929-1954 (2015). Jean-Christian Vinel is an Associate Professor of American History at the Paris Diderot University, France. A political and labor historian, he is the author of The Employee: A Political History (2013). 

1. Introduction 2. The Uses and Abuses of the Scottish Enlightenment in Modern Conservatism3. The Theory and Practice of Conservative Propaganda and Organisation in Britain and France in The Interwar Years .4. The Long Road of French Neoliberalism5. Principles, markets, and national interest in Conservative approaches to Social Policy6. Taxation, Distribution and Incentives: Conservative Policy in Britain, 1945-19817. The Institutionalization of Tax Revolt in France and the United States 8. French Management Conservatism In Action: The Individualization of Labor Bargaining and Managerial Uses of the Law9.  “Thick” States and “Thin” States, In A New Era of Merchant Power10.  Transatlantic dimensions of electoral strategy Republican party interpretations of UK politics, 1936–c. 196011. George Wallace and Enoch Powell: Comparing the Politics of Populist Conservatism in the US and the UK 12.  ‘Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt’ : Sexual morality as seen by Supreme Courts in France and the USA