Democracy in Britain - A Reader

Informationen zum Autor Jack Lively is an Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Warwick. Among his previous publications is Democracy (1970), also published by Blackwell. Adam Lively is the author of four novels, most recently Sing the Body Electric (1993), and a pamphlet on constitutional reform, Parliament: The Great British Democracy Swindle (1990). He is currently working on a study of race and the imagination. Klappentext Democracy in Britain is an indispensable guide to the constitutional and political issues regarding representative and democratic institutions in Britain. As much a literary anthology as a political reader, it includes a rich and varied selection of key writings, from the debates around Britain's representative and democratic institutions, from constitutional commentary and diaries to poetry and fiction; from Locke and Burke to Dryden and Auden; and from Magna Carta to Spycatcher. Zusammenfassung Traces the debate on representative democracy in Britain from its origins to the present. Chapters cover such topics as the constitution (written and unwritten); the balance of powers between different groups in society; and the social contract and the nature of freedom under the law. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Does the British Constitution Exist? 2. Crown and Parliament! Government and People. 3. Representation of Groups. 4. Agreeing to be Governed. 5. Parties and Elections. 6. Democracy and Freedom. 7. Nations and Empire. 8. Democracy and the Economy. 9. A Democratic Culture?

Product details

• Authors: Lively, Adam Lively, Adam Lively Lively, Jack Lively, Jack Lively Lively, Penelope Lively, Lively Jack
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.05.1994
• EAN: 9780631188315
• ISBN: 978-0-631-18831-5
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Advances in Theoretical and Ap
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Political science & theory, Political structures: democracy, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Political science and theory, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies and movements