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The Persistence of Character in Twentieth-century British Politics

Content Provider	SAGE Publishing
Author	Nuttall, Jeremy
Copyright Year	2020
Abstract	Politicians across parties repeatedly agreed that their visions of social improvement rested as much on the promotion of character virtues as on the efficacy of economic systems. Character posed recurring political dilemmas. Ideological dispute over character, as to whether it is formed best through individual exertion or collective support, lies at the heart of the division of politics between right and left. Further, the limits to the people’s character were seen as a constraint upon social progress. Yet, contrary to much historiography, this is not a story of decline from a supposed Victorian heyday of ‘moral politics’. British politics proved notably adaptive in forging updated, optimistic visions, in which the forces of modernity which might have seemed to threaten the moral calibre of the body politic, or of society, whether democracy, state expansion, or, later, ‘individualism’, were recast instead as supportive foundations for the people’s moral growth. If the century has seen a steadily ‘quieter’, less loudly moralizing, more nurturing approach to the encouragement of character, this reflected a growth in the sophistication of the method of advancing character, not a decline in either the political importance accorded to it, or the people’s possession of it.
Related Links	https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0022009420922584?download=true
Starting Page	96
Ending Page	116
Page Count	21
ISSN	00220094
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	56
Journal	Journal of Contemporary History (JCH)
e-ISSN	14617250
DOI	10.1177/0022009420922584
Language	English
Publisher	Sage Publications UK
Publisher Date	2020-06-11
Publisher Place	London
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	© The Author(s) 2020
Subject Keyword	character Labour Liberal Conservative people politics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science History Cultural Studies

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