Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 320.441
EAN num: 9780631167426
ISBN number: 0631167420
Label: Blackwell Publishing houses
Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishing houses
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 547
Printing Date: 1996-01
Publishing house: Blackwell Publishing houses
Sale Popularity Level: 3597853
Studio: Blackwell Publishing houses
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The new edition of this well-established textbook will be invaluable to all students studying British politics. Greatly expanded for this third edition, Gillian Peele's book develops a framework for understanding the radical changes in the relationships between the polity, economy and society that have occurred across the last two decades. The author brings to the fore the impact on British government and politics, of Europe, factors of social change, the decline of consensus, the shaping of a more marked ideological politics and the rising tide of technology. Against the backdrop of her analytical framework, Peele sets out the details of the British system of government providing students with a clear understanding of the basic machinery of government and the constitution - Executive, Legislature and the Judiciary - as well as of the forces shaping the dynamics of political change such as parties, voting behaviour and pressure groups. The very comprehensiveness of this text and its accessibility will ensure that lay readers, students, and teachers of politics alike have to hand a work that provides a rich blend of fact, judgment and analysis from one of the most noted writers on contemporary British politics.
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This book, like its author, is a little intimidating (in fact, she's quite scary in person). Miss Peele's towering intellect is palpable throughout, while the book also demonstrates the phenomenal breadth and depth of her knowledge of British Politics. The complexity of the interplay between the myriad political actors in the UK is brilliantly expressed and analysed while subsidiary factors which in turn affect those agents and bodies are clearly explained and illustrated. In my experience the book is especially valuable to those facing immanent essay deadlines! The only problem of course is that this third edition is (as I write this) about eight years out of date. If your interest is primarily in British Politics before 1995 then you really ought to read this book. If not, then perhaps you should consider waiting for the subsequent edition, which I believe will be available later this year (2004). I'm sure it will be just as good. Alternatively, the latest edition of "Developments in British Politics" (by Patrick Dunleavy, Andrew Gamble, Richard Heffernan, and Gillian Peele eds.) will serve to bring you up to date.
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I was quite ambivalent about this book. At very first I decided to judge it by its cover, but upon reading it was tempted to instead judge it by its merits. Either way, the score was pretty much the same - so by the end I was still undecided. Not a dull book, exactly - but then, its not exactly anything.
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