How Sick Is British Democracy? : A Clinical Analysis / / by Richard Rose
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| Autore: |
Rose Richard <1933->
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| Titolo: |
How Sick Is British Democracy? : A Clinical Analysis / / by Richard Rose
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| Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2021. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (200 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 320.941 |
| Soggetto topico: | Europe - Politics and government |
| Political leadership | |
| Political science | |
| Public administration | |
| European Politics | |
| Political Leadership | |
| Governance and Government | |
| Public Administration | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 1. Diagnosing the Health of the Body Politic -- 2. Elections the Heart of Government -- 3. Party as the Lifeblood of Government -- 4. A Single Brain in Downing Street -- 5. Whitehall's Collective Brainpower -- 6. The Limbs of A Disunited Kingdom -- 7. An Unbalance Constitution -- 8. Limits on Democratic Sovereignty -- 9. A Mixed Bill of Health for British Democracy. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Forecasts of the death of democracy are often heard and the United Kingdom is on the death watch list. This book challenges such a gloomy view by carefully examining the health of the British body politic from Tony Blair's time in Downing Street to the challenges of Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic. It finds some parts are in good health, for example, elections are free and losers as well as winners accept the results, unlike the United States. Other parts show intermittent symptoms of ill health, such as Cabinet ministers avoiding accountability. There is also a chronic problem of managing the unity of the United Kingdom. None of the symptoms is fatal. The book identifies effective remedies for some symptoms, placebos that offer assurance without cure, and perennially popular prescriptions that are politically impossible. Being a healthy democracy does not promise effectiveness in dealing with economic problems, but a big majority of Britons do not want to trade the freedom thatcomes with democracy for the promises of undemocratic leaders. Richard Rose is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde, UK, and a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute Florence, Italy, and the Science Centre Berlin, Germany. He has been writing award-winning studies of British politics and democracy in comparative perspective for more than half a century. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | How Sick Is British Democracy |
| ISBN: | 9783030731236 |
| 3030731235 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910483469803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century, . 2946-3424