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The Heath Premiership: A Transitional Era?

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Policies and Politics Under Prime Minister Edward Heath

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The aim of the conclusion is to utilise the findings of the chapters within the book in order to help us to reconsider the Heath premiership. The chapter utilises the dimensions of statecraft theory as a means of reassessing the Heath era: so it considers electoral strategy, governing competence, political argument hegemony and effective party management. In providing summaries to the dimensions of the statecraft model, the failings of the Heath premiership are exposed, but also the constraints. The chapter, however, goes on to make the case for moving beyond the prevailing perspectives of a failed era or a constrained era, and it attempts to argue that it should be seen as a transitional era [130].

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The labels used to define Conservative parliamentarians over Europe would change over time, as the question(s) with regard to Europe evolved. Those with reservations were labelled as anti-Marketeers in the 1960s and 1970s. The term Euroscepticism only really gained traction in the 1990s. What united anti-Marketeers and Eurosceptics was their concern about the validity of the supposed benefits flowing from economic integration and political multilateralism. They viewed this as the surrendering of sovereignty over to a supranational body which they could not control. Those on the pro-European wing of the Conservative Party were pro-Marketeers in the 1970s, and they held a con-federalist position, that is, the pooling of sovereignty inside an integrated Europe would create economic gains (Crowson 2007: 105-126; Heppell et al. 2017: 764-768).

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    European membership was briefly threatened by the commitment of the incoming Wilson administration to hold a referendum on continued membership. This was overcome by 67–33 percent in 1975 (see Butler and Kitzinger 1976; see also Saunders 2018).

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    The ongoing validity of the two-party argument has been made by Lynch and Garner (2005) and Lynch (2007).

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    Academics would debate whether a decline in class-based partisanship had occurred (Crewe et al. 1977; Särlvik and Crewe 1983; Franklin 1985) or whether it was trendless and fluctuating (see Heath et al. 1985) throughout the 1970s and 1980s, but the evidence that a decline did occur is now widely acknowledged (see Evans and Tilley 2012).

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Heppell, T., Roe-Crines, A.S. (2021). The Heath Premiership: A Transitional Era?. In: Roe-Crines, A.S., Heppell, T. (eds) Policies and Politics Under Prime Minister Edward Heath. Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53673-2_18

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