The End of British Party Politics? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The End of British Party Politics? write by Roger Awan-Scully. This book was released on 2018-04-05. The End of British Party Politics? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Elections ask voters to choose between political parties. But voters across the UK are increasingly being presented with fundamentally different, and largely disconnected, sets of political choices. This book is about this hollowing out of a genuinely British democratic politics: how and why it has occurred, and why it matters. Electoral choices across Britain became increasingly differentiated along national lines over much of the last half-century. In 2017, for the second general election in a row, four different parties came first in the UK's four nations. UK voters are increasingly faced with general election campaigns that are largely disconnected from each other. At the same time, voters acquire much of their information about the election from news-media based in London that display little understanding of these national distinctions. The UK continues to elect representatives to a single parliament. But the shared debates and sets of choices that tie a political community together are increasingly absent. Separate national political arenas and agendas still have to interact but in some respects the House of Commons increasingly resembles the European Parliament – whose members are democratically chosen but from a disconnected series of separate national electoral contests. This is deeply problematic for the long-term unity and integrity of the UK.
The End of British Politics?
The End of British Politics? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The End of British Politics? write by Michael Moran. This book was released on 2017-02-08. The End of British Politics? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the crisis of the British state. Though it has been particularly apparent since the outcome of both the 2014 Scottish independence and 2016 ‘Brexit’ referendums, it stems from deep historical roots. The book traces the origins of the state to the original Act of Union of 1707 and demonstrates how different notions of British destiny - Protestant, imperial, social democratic – have held the state together at different times. The present crisis, it is argued, is due to the exhaustion of these senses of destiny. Moran shows how the United Kingdom is now held together as a militarised state prone to disastrous adventures like the invasion of Iraq, and concludes by examining some alternative futures for the state. This book will appeal to students, scholars and the general reader interested in British politics and political history.
The Death of Consensus
The Death of Consensus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Death of Consensus write by Phil Tinline. This book was released on 2022-06-23. The Death of Consensus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over Britain’s first century of mass democracy, politics has lurched from crisis to crisis. How does this history of political agony illuminate our current age of upheaval? To find out, journalist Phil Tinline takes us back to two past eras when the ruling consensus broke down, and the future filled with ominous possibilities – until, finally, a new settlement was born. How did the Great Depression’s spectres of fascism, bombing and mass unemployment force politicians to think the unthinkable, and pave the way to post-war Britain? How was Thatcher’s road to victory made possible by a decade of nightmares: of hyperinflation, military coups and communist dictatorship? And why, since the Crash in 2008, have new political threats and divisions forced us to change course once again? Tinline brings to life those times, past and present, when the great compromise holding democracy together has come apart; when the political class has been forced to make a choice of nightmares. This lively, original account of panic and chaos reveals how apparent catastrophes can clear the path to a new era. The Death of Consensus will make you see British democracy differently.
British Politics: A Very Short Introduction
British Politics: A Very Short Introduction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook British Politics: A Very Short Introduction write by Anthony Wright. This book was released on 2013-05-30. British Politics: A Very Short Introduction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents an introduction to the evolution and history of the British political system.
The End of British Politics?
The End of British Politics? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The End of British Politics? write by William Lockley Miller. This book was released on 1981. The End of British Politics? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
