100 years ago, secular liberals thought religion would gradually recede from the public sphere and become an exclusively private concern. Today, organised religion is still a powerful political force in most parts of the world. In many its political significance has grown. But is it an ally or an enemy of pluralist democracy? That crucial question provides the theme for this path-breaking collection.

This is the eighth book of a series published with The Political Quarterly.

• Expert contributors including Joyce Macmillan, Michael Brunson, Karen Evans, John Maxton, Matthew Taylor, Neal Acherson, Yasmin-Alibhai Brown and Anthony Everitt.
  
• Asks how a radically more participative citizenship culture could be achieved - one where people think of themselves as citizens and act like citizens.
  
• Concerned with long-term proposals rather than short-term issues.
  
• Looking towards the middle years of the new century it...

This book examines the policy responses to superterrorism, suggesting that the world was not in fact turned upside down by the events of 11 September 2001, but rather that some established trends and tendencies were picked up and reinforced while others were recast.

• Examines the policy responses to superterrorism in the wake of the al-Qaeda attacks of 11 September 2001.
  
• Suggests that the changes that occurred as a result of this attack were in some cases continuations of established trends.
  
• Looks at changes in how terrorism is now...

In his essay -The end of laissez-faire-, Keynes distinguished between the agenda and the non-agenda of government. This book asks how we interpret that distinction today.

• A ground-breaking collection concerned with rethinking the contemporary role of the state.
  
• Comprises essays written by leading scholars and politicians.
  
• Looks back at the expansion of the social democratic state in post-war Britain, and at the subsequent challenge to this from neo-liberal ideas and policies.
  
• Discusses new doctrines for managing the...

Bringing together contributions from the eight men who have held the post of British Permanent Representative to the EC/EU, this book provides an authoritative insight into the way Britain's relationship with its EC/EU partners has developed since accession in 1973.

• A unique and authoritative insight into the way Britain's relationship with its EC/EU partners has developed since accession in 1973.
  
• Presents overviews of this relationship written by the eight men who have held the post of British Permanent Representative to the EC/EU.
  
• Provides a...

Fifty years after the term -meritocracy- was coined, this book asks where the idea of meritocracy has led.

• A team of commentators consider diverse topics such as family and meritocracy, meritocracy and ethnic minorities, and what is meant by talent


• Contains commentaries by a selection of researchers, activists and politicians, from Asa Briggs to David Willetts, on the origin, meaning and future of meritocracy


• Demonstrates that Michael Young, who wrote The Rise of the Meritocracy, was right to question the viability...

Since the election of Tony Blair to the leadership of the Labour party in 1997 and the party's subsequent electoral triumph in 1997 after eighteen years in opposition there has been intense speculation about what the Labour party now stands for.

The Politics of Migration explores the opportunities and tensions posed by migration today and makes a series of strong, workable proposals for managing it effectively.

• An exploration of the opportunities and tensions posed by migration today.


• Written by some of the foremost international experts on migration and citizenship issues.


• Focuses on migration in Europe and North America.


• Covers issues such as the rise of the far right, the international politics of refugees, the impact of migration...