Lenon Campos Maschette is Postdoctoral Fellow in Politics at the State University of Campinas and holds a PhD in History from the University of São Paulo. His research interests include political ideologies with a focus on ideologies of the right. Some of their publications are Citizenship and ideology in David Cameron's 'Big Society' (2023) and Was there a legislative moral agenda in Thatcher's administration? (2021).

Introduction: Citizenship and the conservatives 1. Margaret Thatcher's 'active citizen': placing civil society at the centre of citizenship 2. John Major's Citizen's Charter and the consumer citizen 3. New Labour and Conservative Party reconstruction 4. The ideology behind the Big Society: 'There is such thing as society' 5. Conclusion.

The author analyses how these leaders echoed and re-signified more traditional political ideas and ideologies while negotiating with and borrowing new flourishing concepts during those years.