Screen LibraryInstitutional crisis in 21st century Britain /
In the 21st Century, a perfect storm appears to have engulfed many of Britain's most important institutions. The list of those it has enveloped is extensive, but headline acts would include - the banking sector for malpractice, Parliament for its expenses scandal, the media for phone-hacking an...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Understanding governance series
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| Summary: |
In the 21st Century, a perfect storm appears to have engulfed many of Britain's most important institutions. The list of those it has enveloped is extensive, but headline acts would include - the banking sector for malpractice, Parliament for its expenses scandal, the media for phone-hacking and the police for duplicity and corruption. It raises a fundamental question of whether there is an endemic and fundamental crisis in British political, economic and social institutions or instead simply a set of contingent events that have been discursively constructed and presented as a collective cri |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 319 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-303) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781137334381 : 113733438X |
| Index Number: | DA589 |
| CLC: | D756.12 |
| Call Number: | D756.12/I597 |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction: A Crisis in UK Institutions; David Richards and Martin Smith -- PART I: A THEMATIC APPROACH TO CRISIS -- 1. A Crisis of Expectation; David Richards -- 2. A Crisis of Participation; Sadiya Akram, David Marsh and Brendan McCaffrie -- 3. A Crisis of Politics; Colin Hay -- PART II: SURVEYING INSTITUTIONS IN CRISIS -- 4. A Crisis of Parliament; David Judge -- 5. A Crisis of Political Parties; Martin Smith -- 6. A Crisis of Whitehall; Patrick Diamond -- 7. A Crisis of the Union; Paul Cairney -- 8. A Crisis of the European Union; Charles Dannreuther and Simon Lightfoot -- 9. A Cris |