The Essential Anatomy Of Britain
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Author | : Anthony Sampson |
Publisher | : Mariner Books |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This thoroughly revised edition of a classic examines the recent deterioration of democratic representation in Great Britain. New Preface by the Author; Index.
Author | : Donley T Studlar |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2018-02-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0429968655 |
This thoughtful introduction to British politics explores a country undergoing a painful transition as the twenty-first century approaches. Informed throughout by a comparative public policy perspective, it surveys British policy, institutions, and behavior since World War II.
Author | : Richard S. Tompson |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0816074720 |
An A-Z reference guide to significant people, ideas, places, and events in British history.
Author | : R. A. W. Rhodes |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2024-07-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0192691112 |
Court politics is about who in British government did what to whom, when, how, why, and with what consequences. In The Prime Ministerial Court Rod Rhodes provides a thorough depiction of the court politics of the Conservative governments of the twenty-first century, namely the courts of David Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson. Exploring specific topics, including the courtiers, the prime minister's craft, reshuffles, resignations, and leadership challenges, and the political games and feuds in the court between ministers, advisers, and civil servants, Rhodes concludes that the British government has a new Establishment in which the skills of 'knavery' abound. He finds evidence of betrayal, revenge, lying, scandals, and bullying with such machinations oiled by gossip, humour, and alcohol. Analysing the everyday practice of the 'dark arts' by the British political and administrative elite, each chapter includes a short case study of the court in action, covering the education wars, the 2018 election, and the Covid-19 crisis. Each case illustrates the personal, electoral, and governmental consequences of court politics. Rhodes warns that there are more and more knaves, decency is in decline, and British government needs 'rules for rulers'. Above all, he cautions citizens - 'beware, here be dragons'.
Author | : Susan Bassnett |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2021-04-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1000446018 |
Studying British Cultures is a lively and provocative volume of essays which offers the ideal introduction to a contentious area. The contributors, who have been instrumental in establishing the discipline of British Cultural Studies, explore a wide range of critical debates on cultural identity and explode the myth that Britain is made up of a homogenous people. The first half of the book traces examines the theory and methodology of studying British cultures, in disciplines variously known as British Studies, Cultural Studies or British Cultural Studies. The second half of the book turns to key topics in those fields, looking in turn at developments in Scottish, Welsh and Irish Studies and the roles of Shakespeare and West Indian literature in the study of British cultures. In vivid and often entertaining essays, the authors demonstrate that 'culture' is a plurality of discourses, not a fixed, unitary concept.
Author | : María Jesús González Hernández |
Publisher | : Apollo Books |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Hispanists |
ISBN | : 9781845195359 |
"Published in collaboration with the Ca'anada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies."
Author | : Ian Cawood |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2022-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526150026 |
How has corruption shaped – and undermined – the history of public life in modern Britain? This collection begins the task of piecing together this history over the past two and a half centuries, from the first assaults on Old Corruption and aristocratic privilege during the late eighteenth century through to the corruption scandals that blighted the worlds of Westminster and municipal government during the twentieth century. It offers the first account that pays equal attention to the successes and limitations of anticorruption reforms and the shifting meanings of ‘corruption’. It does so across a range of different sites – electoral, political and administrative, domestic and colonial – presenting new research on neglected areas of reform, while revisiting well known scandals and corrupt practices.
Author | : Lynton J. Robins |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780719057014 |
The contents focus directly on the dynamics of political argument in order to reveal how rival politicians and political scientists practice their persuasive art. Each contributor explores a disputed viewpoint, showing how differences of attitude and ideology structure the contemporary debate. Students should learn how an argument is constructed and develop the skills necessary for separating rhetoric from political reality. Further guidance is provided by summary boxes and suggested additional reading.
Author | : Harold Perkin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2002-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134763948 |
This volume examines the leading professional societies since World War II - those in the free market economies of the United States, Britain, France, West Germany and Japan, and those in the collapsed command economies of East Germany and the Soviet Union. It praises their achievements, but also warns of the greed and corruption of their elites, aking whether corruption rather than ideology caused the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and if Anglo-American capitalism is likely to go the same way.
Author | : Dan Hind |
Publisher | : John Hunt Publishing |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2014-09-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1782794026 |
Anyone who knows anything about Britain knows that it is a democracy and a constitutional monarchy. The trouble is, it is neither. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is one of the most exotic nations on earth. In the republican form of government a defined public exercise sovereign power. Most modern states describe themselves as democratic republics. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is an anomaly, in that formal sovereignty is still denied to its people. In The Magic Kingdom Dan Hind explores what the republican tradition has to offer the British at a time of deep political, social and economic dislocation. He considers what innovations are necessary if liberty is to be secured in current conditions. His argument will surprise many who consider themselves republicans. It will upset those who benefit from the current arrangements. It offers a way forward for those who can no longer tolerate steepening inequality and its associated ills. Existing republican institutions have not been able to deliver public control of the state. If substantive democracy is to be possible in large and complex societies, the systems of communication, subsidy and credit must be made subject to popular oversight and control. In a disarmingly calm manner, Hind shows how this can be done, by minor adjustments to the existing institutions. Perhaps, unlikely as it sounds, Britain will provide the venue for the world's first truly republican society.