Mackintosh's the Government and Politics of Britain

ISBN-13: 9781138408241 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Peter G. Richards

Opis

This student mainstay continues to be organised around constitutional themes, with new material on local elections, the politics of the centre and the limits of state power.

Recenzje

Reviews of previous editions: `The book remains the best of the many general texts on British government and politics to be published in the last twelve years or so.' - The Times Higher Education Supplement

`The well-known strengths of Mackintosh's original book are sustained and extended' - Parliamentary Affairs

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Describing the British Constitution; Chapter 2 The Westminster Model; Chapter 3 Forces of Change; Chapter 4 British Government Today; Chapter 5 Political Leadership – Producing a Prime Minister; Chapter 6 Political Leadership – the Strength of the Prime Minister; Chapter 7 Political Leadership – the Limitations on the Prime Minister’s Power; Chapter 8 Political Leadership – Can the Prime Minister be Sacked?; Chapter 9 The Leadership and its Relations with the Electrorate; the State and the Citizen; Chapter 10 Governing through Parliament; Chapter 11 Governing through the Whitehall DePart ments; Chapter 12 Government Outside Whitehall; Chapter 13 The Direction of Change;

O autorze

Peter G. Richards