How Sick Is British Democracy?

A Clinical Analysis

Richard Rose (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XXIX, 178 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-73122-9 (ISBN)

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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 that comes with democracy for the promises of undemocratic leaders.

lt;b>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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	23.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
Zusatzinfo	XXIX, 178 p. 9 illus., 5 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	401 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
Schlagworte	BAMES MPs • body politic • Boris Johnson • British Conservative Party • British democracy • British General Election • British Labour Party • British politics • death democracy • Democracy • Donald Trump • Elections • Margaret Thatcher • MPS • parliament • Referendum • Tony Blair • United Kingdom • US politics • Winston Churchill
ISBN-10	3-030-73122-7 / 3030731227
ISBN-13	978-3-030-73122-9 / 9783030731229
Zustand	Neuware