书目名称 | How Sick Is British Democracy? |
副标题 | A Clinical Analysis |
编辑 | Richard Rose |
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概述 | Focusses on democracy in Britain rather than assuming that Britain is vulnerable to going the way of Turkey or Donald Trump’s America.Combines extensive empirical knowledge of UK politics with an acut |
丛书名称 | Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century |
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描述 | 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. |
出版日期 | Book 2021 |
关键词 | British Politics; British Democracy; Democracy; US Politics; British Conservative Party; British Labour P |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73123-6 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-73125-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-73123-6Series ISSN 2946-3416 Series E-ISSN 2946-3424 |
issn_series | 2946-3416 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |