How Sick Is British Democracy? : A Clinical Analysis
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 p...
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| التنسيق: | Livre numérique |
| اللغة: | Anglais |
| منشور في: |
Cham :
Springer International Publishing
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Cham : Springer Nature |
| الطبعة: | 1st ed. 2021. |
| سلاسل: | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès sur la plateforme Springer Accès Université d'Orléans |
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Springer e-books science politique (Licence nationale) |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • How sick is British democracy?, a clinical analysis, Richard Rose, 2021, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmilla, 1 vol. (xxix-178 p.), Challenges to democracy in the 21st century, 978-3-030-73122-9 • How Sick Is British Democracy?, Texte imprimé, 9783030731243 • How Sick Is British Democracy?, Texte imprimé, 9783030731250 |
| الملخص: | 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. 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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| وصف المادة: | Springer e-books science politique (Licence nationale) |
| ردمك: | 9783030731236 |
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