This text is designed to give students a comprehensive view of the British electoral system. Its innovative comparative and theoretical approach will provide a link between courses in British politics, comparative politics and political theory. The book looks at electoral systems in relation to democratic theory and examines the justification for modern electoral rules. It compares parliamentary elections with various other kinds of election, and it looks at the differences between British experience and that of other countries. Andrew Reeve and Alan Ware aim to inform the debate about...
This text is designed to give students a comprehensive view of the British electoral system. Its innovative comparative and theoretical approach will ...
Sir John Hicks is one of the highest-regarded contemporary economists, and it is fitting that the new series of Critical Assessments of Contemporary Economists should commence with his work.
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1972, Sir John Hicks work is extremely wide-ranging, with the list of topics reading almost like an agenda for the whole of modern economics: general equilibrium theory, welfare economics, problems of index numbers, trade cycles, wages and many others. He may, however, be best known to present day economists for having introduced IS-LM curves,...
Sir John Hicks is one of the highest-regarded contemporary economists, and it is fitting that the new series of Critical Assessments of Contemp...
Since the mid 1960s, across Europe and America, more and more people have been turning their backs on mainstream politics and parties, and are pursuing more unconventional ways of making themselves heard. Recent research suggests that as many people in Britain are active in protest or similar movements as in the conventional political parties. Social scientists have revived the idea of Social Movements to explain this. This study explores the theories surrounding these new movements of the 1980s and 1990s. It begins by summarizing these theories and describing how such movements as...
Since the mid 1960s, across Europe and America, more and more people have been turning their backs on mainstream politics and parties, and are pursuin...
Since the mid 1960s, across Europe and America, more and more people have been turning their backs on mainstream politics and parties, and are pursuing more unconventional ways of making themselves heard. Recent research suggests that as many people in Britain are active in protest or similar movements as in the conventional political parties. Social scientists have revived the idea of Social Movements to explain this. This study explores the theories surrounding these new movements of the 1980s and 1990s. It begins by summarizing these theories and describing how such movements as...
Since the mid 1960s, across Europe and America, more and more people have been turning their backs on mainstream politics and parties, and are pursuin...
Radical reforms of the civil service during the 1980s and 90s have broken up the old unified hierarchical structures. In their place are peripheral agencies concerned with policy implementation and a central core comcerned with policy-making. The radical reforms are described and assessed in terms of the public choice and public management theories which underpin them. Bureau-maximizing and bureau-shaping models are used to predict the directions we should expect the reforms to take and their likely success. The key central chapter of the book examines the equivocal use of the term...
Radical reforms of the civil service during the 1980s and 90s have broken up the old unified hierarchical structures. In their place are peripheral...
This text is divided into two parts: the first, an introduction by the editor, offering a schematic survey of the major themes and positions taken in the debates around modernism and postmodernism; the second, a collection of pertinent essays grouped into four sections to demonstrate how the debates have been applied to specific cultural activities. These activities include popular culture, architecture and visual arts, literature, documentary and film.
This text is divided into two parts: the first, an introduction by the editor, offering a schematic survey of the major themes and positions taken in ...
This text provides an excellent insight into the theory and practice of political representation, a concept that is central to the understanding of modern British politics. The book explores the key elements of representation and the inextricable connections between theory and the British representative tradition. Using extensive examples and key theorists, the book should be of interest to students of British politics.
This text provides an excellent insight into the theory and practice of political representation, a concept that is central to the understanding of mo...
