Tsvetkova, Yu.D. Questions of social reformation as a factor of interparty fight between conservators and liberals in the 70th- 90th of the 19th century in great britain

Abstract: The author of the article analyzes political doctrines of the “new Tory” and “democratic liberalism” that had been offered by conservative and liberal parties of Great Britain back in the 70th — 90th of the 19th century and determined the course of social transformations in such important spheres like health care, education, housing and labor legislation, etc. The fact that the leading political parties appealed to social policy is viewed in terms of the interparty fight between Tory and Whigs for votes of electors which, according to the author of the present article, allows to better understand the reasons and nature of social transformations of Victorian England during the second half of the 19th century. In her research Tsvetkova has used the formal-logical method and the method of ascending from the abstract to the concrete, the method of historical comparative analysis and the methods of abstraction, deduction and induction. The social policy of Great Britain in the 70th — 90th of the 19th century was defined by the opposition between conservators and liberals. Even though that fight created the illusion of choice, it allowed to avoid revolutions. Social reforms were mostly based on using political technologies to reduce revolutionary moods which, paradoxically, made a serious influence on the improvement of living conditions of the population.

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