The Developing British Political System The 1990s

Examines the state of the British political system during the 1990s covering such areas as: economic difficulties and government response; bureaucratic networks; parties and electors; political communications; and relations with outside governments.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Economic difficulties and government response 1931–1993, David McKay; Chapter 2 Changing networks: the bureaucratic setting for government action, Graham Wilson; Chapter 3 Cabinet co-ordination or prime ministerial dominance? A conflict of three principles of Cabinet government, Anthony King; Chapter 4 The place of Parliament, Melvyn Read; Chapter 5 Part Ies and electors, Ivor Crewe; Chapter 6 Political communications, Kenneth Newton; Chapter 7 The other governments of Britain: local politics and delegated administrations, Vivien Lowndes; Chapter 8 Preserving order and administering justice: other faces of government in Britain, David Robertson; Chapter 9 A third level of government: Britain in the European Community, Emil Kirchner; Chapter 10 Relations with outside governments: foreign and military policy, David Sanders; Chapter 11 Turning Britain around?, Ian Budge, David McKay;

Budge, Ian; McKay, David