Research Catalog

Title

United Kingdom / edited by R.A.W. Rhodes.

Publication

Aldershot ; Brookfield, USA : Ashgate/ Dartmouth, c2000.

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Additional Authors

Rhodes, R. A. W.

Description

2 v.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

International library of politics and comparative government.

Uniform Title

International library of politics and comparative government..

Subject

• Great Britain > Politics and government
• Political leadership > Great Britain
• Political science > Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• v. 1. Part I. Approaches. Theories of British politics / Andrew Gamble -- The character of modern British politics / W.H. Greenleaf -- Part II. Historical context. The Second World War, consensus, and the foundation of the welfare state / Rodney Lowe -- The United Kingdom as a multi-national state / Richard Rose -- The new governance : governing without government / R.A.W. Rhodes -- Part III. Power and the state. The problem of the capitalist state / Nicos Poulantzas -- The capitalist state : reply to Nicos Poulantzas / Ralph Miliband -- Policy networks : a British perspective / R.A.W. Rhodes -- Model or metaphor? A critical review of the policy network approach / Keith Dowding -- Part IV. The constitution. Bringing the constitution back in : political science and the state / John Dearlove -- Interpreting the constitution / J.C. Rees -- Subsidiarity and the Community's constitutional future / Andrew Adonis and Stuart Jones -- Part V. Elections and parties. Partisan dealignment in Britain 1964-1974 / Ivor Crewe, Bo Särlvik and James Alt -- On the death and resurrection of class voting : some comments on how Britain votes / Ivor Crewe -- Trendless fluctuation : a reply to Crewe / Anthony Heath, Roger Jowell and John Curtice -- Power in the parties : R.T. McKenzie and after / Dennis Kavanagh -- Part VI. Pressure groups. Pressure groups in British government / W.J.M Mackenzie -- Insider groups, outsider groups and interest group strategies in Britain / W. Grant -- Part VII. Parliament. Parliament in the United Kingdom : balancing effectiveness and consent? / Philip Norton -- Elective dictatorship / Lord Hailsham -- The rise of the career politician in Britain -- and its consequences / Anthony King.
• v. 2. Part VIII. Executive -- Prime Minister. The discipline of the new democracy : Mrs Thatcher's domestic statecraft / Jim Bulpitt -- Margaret Thatcher : the style of a Prime Minister / Anthony King -- The Blair style of government : an historical perspective and an interim audit / Peter Hennessy -- Part IX. Executive -- the Cabinet. The Prime Minister's power / G.W. Jones -- The Prime Minister and the Cabinet / John P. Mackintosh -- Core executive studies in Britain / Patrick Dunleavy and R.A.W. Rhodes -- Part X. Executive -- Ministers. The individual responsibility of Ministers / S.E. Finer -- On being a Minister / Roy Jenkins -- The role skills of Cabinet Ministers : a cross-national review / B.W. Headey -- The use and abuse of Junior Ministers : increasing political influence in Whitehall / Kevin Theakston -- Part XI. Civil Service. The origins of the administrative elite / Peter Gowan --^
• Bureaucratic politics and power : developments in the study of bureaucracy / Bill Jenkins and Andrew Gray -- The end of the Whitehall model? / Graham K. Wilson and Anthony Barker -- Part XII. Policy. Iron triangles, woolly corporatism and elastic nets : images of the policy process / A. Grant Jordan -- The social scientists and policy-making : some cautionary thoughts and transatlantic reflections / L.J. Sharpe -- Part XIII. Management. A public management for all seasons? / Christopher Hood -- Citizenship and government : the challenge for management in the public domain / Stewart Ranson and John Stewart -- Part XIV. Local government. Theories and values of local government / L.J. Sharpe -- The struggle to reform local government : 1970-1995 / Gerry Stoker -- Part XV. Quangos. Keeping the centre small : explanations of agency type / Christopher Hood -- Privatization as a political priority : the British experience / Mariusz Mark Dobek --^
• Part XVI. The secret state. The limits to coercive consociationalism in Northern Ireland / Brendan O'Leary -- Judicial politics in Britain : patrolling the boundaries / Gavin Drewry -- Part XVII. New directions. Policy disasters : explaining the UK's record / Patrick Dunleavy -- The future of political biography / Ben Pimlott -- Representative democracy and its limits / Paul Hirst.

ISBN

1840140453

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library