Rational Choice and British Politics: An Analysis of Rhetoric and Manipulation from Peel to Blair

ISBN-13: 9780198295303 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 272 str.

Professor Iain McLean

Opis

This engaging and original study, by one of the leading scholars of rational choice theory, explores the course of British parliamentary politics over the last 150 years. It combines social science and analytical narrative history with the great turning points in British politics: the Repeal of the Corn Law; the Victorian crisis of the Liberal and Conservative Parties; the Irish Question and Lloyd George's solution to it; the New Liberal origins of the welfare state; the politics of race and empire under Chamberlain and Powell; and the politics of "there is no alternative" under Margaret Thatcher.

Recenzje

McLean's research is excellent, his writing is polished and witty, and his cases are well selected to cover some of the truly fascinating moments of British politics ... From a scholarly perspective, there are some novel and interesting parts to McLean's work.

O autorze

Iain McLean, Professor of Politics, Nuffield College, Oxford University