How sick is British democracy? : a clinical analysis / Richard Rose.
Rose, Richard, 1933- author.
2021
JN900 .R67 2021
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Title How sick is British democracy? : a clinical analysis / Richard Rose.
Author Rose, Richard, 1933- author.
ISBN 9783030731236 (electronic bk.)
3030731235 (electronic bk.)
9783030731229
3030731227
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73123-6
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-73123-6 doi
Call Number JN900 .R67 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.941
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 10, 2021).
Series Challenges to democracy in the 21st century series.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783030731229
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