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The State of England - Simon Lee

The State of England

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Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2025
Agenda Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78821-812-2 (ISBN)
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Simon Lee makes the case for England, an English identity and and an English state. He puts forward a moral vision of England as a political community, based upon a civic nationalism and national identity rooted in the principles of democratic political culture and citizenship.
Despite almost continuous administrative reconfigurations of England by successive UK governments implementing various British nationalist programmes for political, economic and social renewal, there remains no clear vision for the future governance of England. There has been little, if no, engagement with the notions of English identity and England as a nation and a positive case for devolution for England, based on a vision of what England and the English stand for, has not been forthcoming. Simon Lee seeks to address these laments by putting forward a moral vision of England as a political community, based upon a civic nationalism and national identity rooted in the principles of democratic political culture and citizenship.



He offers an alternative to the political visions for England based upon the reactionary English nationalism of Enoch Powell, or the elegies to a lost England of Roger Scruton, as well as Tory visions based on notions of “world-beating” British exceptionalism, and ideas of a "New Britain" from the Left based upon a "nations and regions" agenda. In doing so, the book considers some fundamental questions: how England should be governed, nationally and locally; what form its political economy should take, in terms of a written constitution of laws, legislation, policies and regulation to govern its economy, society and environment; and how England’s national and plural local identities should be defined, given voice and represented.

Simon Lee is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Hull. His books include Boom and Bust: The Politics and Legacy of Gordon Brown (2009).

Part I The condition of England



1. The faltering of England



2. The “renterprise” economy: England and the British models of political economy



3. A failing state and statecraft: England under the British models of governance



4. Private affluence and public squalor: the developmental market model for England’s public services



5. Confusion, conflation and negation: Britain, “our country” and English identity



Part II Fourteen wasted years: the deterioration of England in an age of delusional British statecraft, 2010–24



6. England in the age of austerity and quantitative easing: the delusion of “rebalancing”



7. Brexit, “Global Britain”, and the delusion of “Taking Back Control”



8. The delusion of “Levelling Up”



Part III Bringing the nation back in: a new English revolution



9. A new national political and governance settlement for England



10. A new model of political economy for England



11. A new approach to public goods, services and policies for England



12. Conclusion: a new English revolution

Erscheint lt. Verlag 12.6.2025
Verlagsort Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 1-78821-812-4 / 1788218124
ISBN-13 978-1-78821-812-2 / 9781788218122
Zustand Neuware
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