The end of British politics? / Michael Moran.
Series: Palgrave pivot: Publisher: Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017Description: xii, 104 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783319499659; 9783319499642Subject(s): Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 2010- | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- HistoryDDC classification: 320.941Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 320.941 MOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 018175 |
I. Introduction : imagining and reimagining `Britain' -- II. The state created -- A providential people -- A messianic state -- Providentialism without religion -- Triumph of the metropolitan British state -- Social citizenship and British identity : providentialism without empire -- Statecraft and state mission -- III. The state in decay -- Decay of British social citizenship -- Decay of the metropolitan elite -- Decay of the world state -- Decay of the unionist settlement -- Inventing and reinventing the state -- IV. The state recreated -- Creative statecraft and the reinvention of Britain -- Recasting the post-war settlement -- Reshaping state-civil society relations -- Reshaping the constitution -- Recreating British identity -- Statecraft and the recreation of the state -- V. The end of the state? -- Millennium as a climactic moment -- Crisis of the British economy -- Crisis of the British party system -- Sundered union and the crisis of providentialism -- Waking from a nightmare.