Political Change in Britain
Author | : David Butler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Elections |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David Butler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Elections |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Butler |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 1974-06-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1349020486 |
Author | : Patrick Dunleavy |
Publisher | : LSE Press |
Total Pages | : 521 |
Release | : 2018-11-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1909890464 |
The UK’s Changing Democracy presents a uniquely democratic perspective on all aspects of UK politics, at the centre in Westminster and Whitehall, and in all the devolved nations. The 2016 referendum vote to leave the EU marked a turning point in the UK’s political system. In the previous two decades, the country had undergone a series of democratic reforms, during which it seemed to evolve into a more typical European liberal democracy. The establishment of a Supreme Court, adoption of the Human Rights Act, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish devolution, proportional electoral systems, executive mayors and the growth in multi-party competition all marked profound changes to the British political tradition. Brexit may now bring some of these developments to a juddering halt. The UK’s previous ‘exceptionalism’ from European patterns looks certain to continue indefinitely. ‘Taking back control’ of regulations, trade, immigration and much more is the biggest change in UK governance for half a century. It has already produced enduring crises for the party system, Parliament and the core executive, with uniquely contested governance over critical issues, and a rapidly changing political landscape. Other recent trends are no less fast-moving, such as the revival of two-party dominance in England, the re-creation of some mass membership parties and the disruptive challenges of social media. In this context, an in-depth assessment of the quality of the UK’s democracy is essential. Each of the 2018 Democratic Audit’s 37 short chapters starts with clear criteria for what democracy requires in that part of the nation’s political life and outlines key recent developments before a SWOT analysis (of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) crystallises the current situation. A small number of core issues are then explored in more depth. Set against the global rise of debased semi-democracies, the book’s approach returns our focus firmly to the big issues around the quality and sustainability of the UK’s liberal democracy.
Author | : David Butler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Elections |
ISBN | : 9780333019559 |
Author | : Dean Blackburn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9781526129277 |
This book explores the political ideas that shaped post-war Britain. It does so by examining the history of Penguin Books, a publisher that played an important role in circulating ideas. By situating the publisher's books in their respective historical contexts, the book constructs a new story about post-war Britain. It suggests that the wartime period ushered in a 'meritocratic moment' in Britain's political history that was eclipsed from the mid-1970s.
Author | : David Butler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Geoffrey Evans |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2017-02-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 019251783X |
This book explores the new politics of class in 21st century Britain. It shows how the changing shape of the class structure since 1945 has led political parties to change, which has both reduced class voting and increased class non-voting. This argument is developed in three stages. The first is to show that there has been enormous social continuity in class divisions. The authors demonstrate this using extensive evidence on class and educational inequality, perceptions of inequality, identity and awareness, and political attitudes over more than fifty years. The second stage is to show that there has been enormous political change in response to changing class sizes. Party policies, politicians' rhetoric, and the social composition of political elites have radically altered. Parties offer similar policies, appeal less to specific classes, and are populated by people from more similar backgrounds. Simultaneously the mass media have stopped talking about the politics of class. The third stage is to show that these political changes have had three major consequences. First, as Labour and the Conservatives became more similar, class differences in party preferences disappeared. Second, new parties, most notably UKIP, have taken working class voters from the mainstream parties. Third, and most importantly, the lack of choice offered by the mainstream parties has led to a huge increase in class-based abstention from voting. Working class people have become much less likely to vote. In that sense, Britain appears to have followed the US down a path of working class political exclusion, ultimately undermining the representativeness of our democracy. They conclude with a discussion of the Brexit referendum and the role that working class alienation played in its historic outcome.
Author | : David Butler |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1975-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780312621605 |
Author | : David Edgewort Butler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard Rose |
Publisher | : Longman |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
This text thoroughly describes and analyzes British political institutions and behavior.