Modern British Politics, Parties And Pressure Groups In The Collective Age - Softcover

Beer, Samuel H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393009521 ISBN 13: 9780393009521

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1982

Synopsis

“A learned and penetrating book. . . .One of the most important analyses of the background of the British political system now available.” ―D. W. Brogan, New York Times Book Review

In this “classical study of British politics by an American authority,” Samuel H. Beer describes political parties and interest groups in Great Britain and how they affect public policy. He sketches four different types of politics (corresponding roughly to four different historical periods)―Old Tory, Old Whig, Liberal, and Radical. The fifth and contemporary type he calls collectivism. The main part of the book traces the rise of collectivism from the late nineteenth century through the early decades of this century, until it came to dominate British politics in the post war years.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0393009521
• ISBN 13: 9780393009521
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 434