a reader
Edición de la obra Democracy in Britain
| Autor | Jack Lively, Adam Lively |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Blackwell Publishers |
| Fecha de publicación | 1994 |
| Lugar | Oxford, UK, Cambridge, Mass |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 344 |
| Formato | Hardback |
| ISBN-10 | 0631188290, 0631188312 |
| OCLC | 29467061 |
| LCCN | 93044085 |
| Número de Cutter |
L784d |
The long development of representative and democratic institutions in Britain - usually slow but sometimes violent - has been accompanied by continuous debate on the nature and value of such institutions. Debate has centred, in particular, on constitutional and political issues: the relationship between Crown and Parliament, and Cabinet and the House of Commons; the role of political parties; the extent of voting rights and the structure of the electoral system. Around these political arguments has developed an equally crucial wider debate, addressing such issues as: the impact of democracy on individual rights and liberty; the political role of the ordinary citizen; the economic consequences of democracy; and the nature of a democratic culture. Democracy in Britain is an indispensable guide to those arguments and issues. 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. * This volume provides the best resource available for the understanding and study of Britain's system of representative democracy. * The editors have made efforts throughout to make the material selected accessible to non-specialists. [3 Rather than following one side of the debate on British democracy, this presents the reader with both sides of the argument.