Postwar Conservatism, A Transnational Investigation

Clarisse Berthezène is an Associate Professor in modern British History at Paris Diderot University, France. She is the author of Training minds for the war of ideas: The Conservative Party, Ashridge College and the cultural politics of Britain, 1929-1954 (2015).Jean-Christian Vinel is an Associate Professor of American History at the Paris Diderot University, France. A political and labor historian, he is the author of The Employee: A Political History (2013).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. The Uses and Abuses of the Scottish Enlightenment in Modern Conservatism.- 3. The Theory and Practice of Conservative Propaganda and Organisation in Britain and France in The Interwar Years.- 4. The Long Road of French Neoliberalism.- 5. Principles, markets, and national interest in Conservative approaches to Social Policy.- 6. Taxation, Distribution and Incentives: Conservative Policy in Britain, 1945-1981.- 7. The Institutionalization of Tax Revolt in France and the United States.- 8. French Management Conservatism In Action: The Individualization of Labor Bargaining and Managerial Uses of the Law.- 9. “Thick” States and “Thin” States, In A New Era of Merchant Power.- 10. Transatlantic dimensions of electoral strategy Republican party interpretations of UK politics, 1936–c. 1960.- 11. George Wallace and Enoch Powell: Comparing the Politics of Populist Conservatism in the US and the UK.- 12. ‘Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt’ : Sexual morality as seen by Supreme Courts in France and the USA