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An introductory guide to British Politics with an emphasis on analytical tools and models This book critically examines a range of key practices of politics and power in the UK today. The focus is on issues of continuity and change in the dynamics of power, participation and accountability. Chapters explore government at the centre and the analytical tools that help us to understand it, the historical roots and contemporary politics of devolution, shifting patterns of political participation and dissent, the importance of networks, and the character of constitutional change. There is a distinctive emphasis on the analytical tools and models that can help us to understand politics and power in the UK.
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The book is clearly written, is well organised (replete with running summaries throughout) and does cover many of the basic concepts and themes involved in the study of the British Political system The book is clearly written, is well organised (replete with running summaries throughout) and does cover many of the basic concepts and themes involved in the study of the British Political system
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Richard Heffernan is a Lecturer in Politics at the Open University and Visiting Fellow at Harvard University. He is author of New Labour and Thatcherism: Political Change in Britain (Macmillan, 2001) and co-editor of Macmillan'sDevelopments in British Politics series. Graham Thompson is an Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Nottingham. He is author of The Business of America: The Literary and Critical Production of a Post-War Nation (Pluto Press, 2004) and Male Sexuality under Surveillance: The Office in American Literature (University of Iowa Press, 2003).
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- PublisherThe Open University
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1848734735
- ISBN 13 9781848734739
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages176
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