Political issues in Britain today

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Political issues in Britain today

edited by Bill Jones

(Politics today)

Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1994

4th ed., rev. and completely updated

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780719037719

Description

Desite the continuity of Conservative rule, the British political scene has undergone considerable upheavals since 1989. The latest edition of this textbook has been completely updated to take these changes into account.

Table of Contents

  • John Major's style of government, Bill Jones
  • reform of the House of Commons, Phillip Norton
  • Town Hall versus Whitehall, Geoff Lee
  • the politics of the British media, Moyra Grant
  • reforming the electoral system, Bill Jones
  • lobbying - a need to regulate?, Sebastian Berry
  • "The Unknown Government" - the conservative quangocracy, Bill Jones
  • the debate about the welfare state, Paul Wilding
  • Britain and the European community, Neill Nugent
  • Northern Ireland, Peter Byrd
  • the education issue - the search for radical solutions to raise standards, Lynton Robins
  • is ideology dead?, Bill Jones
  • the politics of health, Bruce Wood
  • the politics of housing policy, Geoff Lee
  • privatisation, Geoff Lee
  • environmental policy - reality or rhetoric?, Geoff Lee
  • the 1992 general election - the end of psephology?, Frank Conley
  • government and poverty in the 1980s - an exercise in the management of a political issue, Paul Wilding
  • crime and punishment, Bill Jones
  • management and the civil service, Andrew Gray and Bill Jenkins.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780719037726

Description

Desite the continuity of Conservative rule, the British political scene has undergone considerable upheavals since 1989, and the latest edition of this textbook has been completely updated to take these changes into account.

Table of Contents

  • John Major's style of government, Bill Jones
  • reform of the House of Commons, Phillip Norton
  • Town Hall versus Whitehall, Geoff Lee
  • the politics of the British media, Moyra Grant
  • reforming the electoral system, Bill Jones
  • lobbying - a need to regulate?, Sebastian Berry
  • "The Unknown Government" - the conservative quangocracy, Bill Jones
  • the debate about the welfare state, Paul Wilding
  • Britain and the European community, Neill Nugent
  • Northern Ireland, Peter Byrd
  • the education issue - the search for radical solutions to raise standards, Lynton Robins
  • is ideology dead?, Bill Jones
  • the politics of health, Bruce Wood
  • the politics of housing policy, Geoff Lee
  • privatisation, Geoff Lee
  • environmental policy - reality or rhetoric?, Geoff Lee
  • the 1992 general election - the end of psephology?, Frank Conley
  • government and poverty in the 1980s - an exercise in the management of a political issue, Paul Wilding
  • crime and punishment, Bill Jones
  • management and the civil service, Andrew Gray and Bill Jenkins.

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