Analysing British Politics is a completely new sort of text which presents concisely all the essential debates about key issues in British politics. Twenty-one 'topic' chapters covers the major theoretical arguments among political scientists while shorter 'controversy' sections explain recent empirical disputes. The book originates in Patrick Dunleavy's widely-used concluding section in the first two Developments in British Politics volumes but its separate publication allows for much greater breadth and depth of coverage.

Table of Contents

PART 1: INPUT POLITICS Voting Behaviour Party Competition Interest Groups Mass Media System The Break-up of Britain? PART 2: STATE INSTITUTIONS Parliament The Core Executive The Civil Service Quasi-governmental Agencies Local Government and Urban Politics The Overall Structure of the British State PART 3: THE CONSTITUTION AND THE POLITICO-LEGAL SYSTEM The Constitution Law and Politics Civil Liberties Industrial Regulation Britain and the European Community PART 4: POLICY CONFIGURATIONS AND OUTPUTS The Growth of the Welfare State The Stabilization or Decline of State Spending Economic Policy-Making Foreign Policy Defence Policy-making Concl;usion: Political Institutions, Choices and Dilemmas