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How Sick Is British Democracy?: A Clinical Analysis: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century

Autor Richard Rose
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 mai 2022
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 that comes with democracy for the promises of undemocratic leaders.  
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030731250
ISBN-10: 3030731251
Pagini: 178
Ilustrații: XXIX, 178 p. 9 illus., 5 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2021
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

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.

Notă biografică

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.

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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.


Caracteristici

Focusses on democracy in Britain rather than assuming that Britain is vulnerable to going the way of Turkey or Donald Trump’s America Combines extensive empirical knowledge of UK politics with an acute understanding of democratic accountability, both in theory as well as in practice Examines evidence from Conservative and Labour governments since 1997