new politics

Peter King is Reader in Social Thought at De Montfort University, Leicester. He is the author of many books including one on the right to buy entitled Housing Policy Transformed (The Policy Press, 2010). His research interests include welfare reform, housing subsidies and conservative social thought.

• Introduction; Towards the new politics; Conservative governance; What is Conservatism?; Who do we govern for?; Progressive Conservatism and the alliance with Liberalism; Reaction and tradition; A model for governing; Conclusions.

"The New Politics could certainly be useful a source for teaching purposes, setting out a position not always fairly represented in undergraduate teaching curricula." Nicholas Deakin, Cercles.