SDP : the birth, life and death of the Social Democratic Party /

Main Author: Crewe, Ivor.
Other Authors: King, Anthony Stephen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Pre-History: 1964-1979
  • 2. The Gang of Three
  • 3. Jenkins and theJenkinsites
  • 4. Anguish: 'Severe Mental Pain'
  • 5. Born in Despair
  • 6. Defectors and Loyalists
  • 7. What Kind of Party, and Whose?
  • 8. The Golden Age: March-December 1981
  • 9. Jenkins as Leader:1982-1983
  • 10. A 'Partnership of Principle'
  • 11. Disappointment:June 1983
  • 12. New Institutions for a New Party
  • 13. Machinery,Members and Money
  • 14. A Media Party?
  • 15. The Party of a NewClass?
  • 16. The SDP, the Alliance and the Electorate
  • 17. The OwenAscendancy I: 1983-1985
  • 18. The Owen Ascendancy II: 1985-1987
  • 19.Humiliation: June 1987
  • 20. The SDP Disintegrates: 1987-1988
  • 21.Of Merger and a Dead Parrot
  • 22. Who Was to Blame?
  • 23. The SDP: AStudy in Failure
  • App. 1. Former Labour MPs, Not Elected to the 1979 Parliament, who Joined the SDP
  • App. 2. SDP Peers
  • App.3.Potential Recruits to the SDP who Remained in the Labour Party.