The making of Thatcherism

Political Oppositions in Democratic and Authoritarian Regimes: A State-of-the-Field(s) Review

“…At the level of book-length monographs of the past decade on political parties, the subject of political opposition has been marked by a heavy Westminster bias, with most contributions in this vein looking at individual parties when in opposition (see e.g. Begley 2020;Diamond 2021;Lavelle 2017) rather than into oppositional politics more generally. In most of this work, 'opposition' is reduced to little more than a contextual variable of party development.…”