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Democracy In Britain: A Reader (Advances in Theoretical and Applied)

Democracy In Britain: A Reader (Advances in Theoretical and Applied)

by Jack Lively (Editor)

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Synopsis

Democracy in Britain is an indispensable guide to the constitutional and political issues regarding representative and democratic institutions in Britain. As much a literary anthology as a political reader, it includes a rich and varied selection of key writings, from the debates around Britain's representative and democratic institutions, from constitutional commentary and diaries to poetry and fiction: from Locke and Burke to Dryden and Auden: and from Magna Carta to Spycatcher.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 360
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 01 Mar 2009
ISBN 10: 0631188312
ISBN 13: 9780631188315

Media Reviews
An intelligent collection that brings disparate figures and ideas into fruitful dialogue. New Statesman & Society This is not an average anthology. At its best, which is much of the time, it is a sustained and marshalled analysis, a wide-ranging dialectical thesis with witnesses for both the prosecution and defence, a historical examination of the continuing, unresolved - and intensely topical - debate about democracy and the nature of the British state. The Guardian This collection of essays has something to enrage, inform, and sometimes startle everyone in Britain interested in how we got to here. More fleshed out than a dictionary, it is nevertheless full of succinct definitions. The Observer
Author Bio
Jack Lively is an Emeritus Professor of Politics at theUniversity of Warwick. Among his previous publications isDemocracy (1970), also published by Blackwell.

Adam Lively is the author of four novels, most recentlySing the Body Electric (1993), and a pamphlet onconstitutional reform, Parliament: The Great British DemocracySwindle (1990). He is currently working on a study of race andthe imagination.