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Book Synopsis The UK's Changing Democracy by : Patrick Dunleavy
Download or read book The UK's Changing Democracy written by Patrick Dunleavy and published by LSE Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UK’s Changing Democracy presents a uniquely democratic perspective on all aspects of UK politics, at the centre in Westminster and Whitehall, and in all the devolved nations. The 2016 referendum vote to leave the EU marked a turning point in the UK’s political system. In the previous two decades, the country had undergone a series of democratic reforms, during which it seemed to evolve into a more typical European liberal democracy. The establishment of a Supreme Court, adoption of the Human Rights Act, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish devolution, proportional electoral systems, executive mayors and the growth in multi-party competition all marked profound changes to the British political tradition. Brexit may now bring some of these developments to a juddering halt. The UK’s previous ‘exceptionalism’ from European patterns looks certain to continue indefinitely. ‘Taking back control’ of regulations, trade, immigration and much more is the biggest change in UK governance for half a century. It has already produced enduring crises for the party system, Parliament and the core executive, with uniquely contested governance over critical issues, and a rapidly changing political landscape. Other recent trends are no less fast-moving, such as the revival of two-party dominance in England, the re-creation of some mass membership parties and the disruptive challenges of social media. In this context, an in-depth assessment of the quality of the UK’s democracy is essential. Each of the 2018 Democratic Audit’s 37 short chapters starts with clear criteria for what democracy requires in that part of the nation’s political life and outlines key recent developments before a SWOT analysis (of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) crystallises the current situation. A small number of core issues are then explored in more depth. Set against the global rise of debased semi-democracies, the book’s approach returns our focus firmly to the big issues around the quality and sustainability of the UK’s liberal democracy.
Book Synopsis The 9.9 Percent by : Matthew Stewart
Download or read book The 9.9 Percent written by Matthew Stewart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “brilliant” (The Washington Post), “clear-eyed and incisive” (The New Republic) analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making life miserable for everyone—including themselves. In 21st-century America, the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution have walked away with the big prizes even while the bottom 90% have lost ground. What’s left of the American Dream has taken refuge in the 9.9% that lies just below the tip of extreme wealth. Collectively, the members of this group control more than half of the wealth in the country—and they are doing whatever it takes to hang on to their piece of the action in an increasingly unjust system. They log insane hours at the office and then turn their leisure time into an excuse for more career-building, even as they rely on an underpaid servant class to power their economic success and satisfy their personal needs. They have segregated themselves into zip codes designed to exclude as many people as possible. They have made fitness a national obsession even as swaths of the population lose healthcare and grow sicker. They have created an unprecedented demand for admission to elite schools and helped to fuel the dramatic cost of higher education. They channel their political energy into symbolic conflicts over identity in order to avoid acknowledging the economic roots of their privilege. And they have created an ethos of “merit” to justify their advantages. They are all around us. In fact, they are us—or what we are supposed to want to be. In this “captivating account” (Robert D. Putnam, author of Bowling Alone), Matthew Stewart argues that a new aristocracy is emerging in American society and it is repeating the mistakes of history. It is entrenching inequality, warping our culture, eroding democracy, and transforming an abundant economy into a source of misery. He calls for a regrounding of American culture and politics on a foundation closer to the original promise of America.
Book Synopsis Aspects of Aristocracy by : David Cannadine
Download or read book Aspects of Aristocracy written by David Cannadine and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He reconstructs the extraordinary financial history of the dukes of Devonshire, narrates the story of the Cozens-Hardys, a Norfolk family who played a remarkably varied part in the life of their county, and offers a controversial reappraisal of the forebears, lives, work, and personalities of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West - a portrait, notes Cannadine, of more than a marriage.
Book Synopsis Peers Or People? The House of Lords Weighed in the Balances and Found Wanting by : William Thomas Stead
Download or read book Peers Or People? The House of Lords Weighed in the Balances and Found Wanting written by William Thomas Stead and published by London, T. Fisher Unnwin. This book was released on 1907 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by : David Cannadine
Download or read book The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy written by David Cannadine and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outset of the 1870s, the British aristocracy could rightly consider themselves the most fortunate people on earth: they held the lion's share of land, wealth and power in the world's greatest empire. By the end of the 1930s they had lost not only a generation of sons in the First World War, but also much of their prosperity, prestige and political significance.David Cannadine shows how this shift came about and how it was reinforced in the aftermath of the Second World War. Lucidly written and sparkling with wit, The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy is a landmark study that dramatically changes our understanding of British social history
Book Synopsis Peers or people? by : William Thomas Stead
Download or read book Peers or people? written by William Thomas Stead and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Human Rights by : Ian Loveland
Download or read book Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Human Rights written by Ian Loveland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Human Rights provides an introduction to public law which draws on developments in politics, the law and society to help the reader gain a fundamental appreciation of the law in its wider context. In addition, it explores the latest ongoing debates around potential constitutional reforms and the author's stimulating style encourages critical analysis. Online resources This book is accompanied by the following online resources: - a fully-integrated online casebook, with edited versions of leading cases and relevant legislation - a selection of mind-maps to help with revision - bonus chapters on the history of the EU - suggested tutorial outlines for lecturers
Book Synopsis The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature by : Tobias Smollett
Download or read book The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature written by Tobias Smollett and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Defence of Aristocracy by : Anthony Mario Ludovici
Download or read book A Defence of Aristocracy written by Anthony Mario Ludovici and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Aristocratic Century by : John Cannon
Download or read book Aristocratic Century written by John Cannon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the work of Butterfield and Namier in the 1930s, it has commonly been said that eighteenth-century England appears atomised, left with no overall interpretation. Subsequent work on religious differences and on party strife served to reinforce the image of a divided society, and in the last ten years historians of the poor and unprivileged have suggested that beneath the surface lurked substantial popular discontent. Professor Cannon uses his 1982 Wiles Lecture to offer a different interpretation - that the widespread acceptance of aristocratic values and aristocratic leadership gave a remarkable intellectual, political and social coherence to the century. He traces the recovery made by the aristocracy from its decade in 1649 when the House of Lords was abolished as useless and dangerous. After the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the peerage re-established its hold on government and society. Professor Cannon is forced to challenge some of the most cherished beliefs of English historiography - that Hanoverian society, at its top level, was an open elite, continually replenished by vigorous recruits from other groups and classes. He suggests that, on the contrary, in some respects the English peerage was more exclusive than many of its continental counterparts and that the openness was a myth which itself served a potent political purpose. Of the prospering burgeoisie, he argues that the remarkable thing was not their assertiveness but their long acquiescence in patrician rule, and he poses the paradox of a country increasingly dominated by a landed aristocracy giving birth to the first industrial revolution. His final chapter discusses the ideological under-pinning which made aristocratic supremacy acceptable for so long, and the emergence of those forces and ideals which were ultimately to replace it.
Book Synopsis Authority, State and National Character by : Helmut Kuzmics
Download or read book Authority, State and National Character written by Helmut Kuzmics and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cross-disciplinary and methodologically innovative study, this volume combines historical macro-sociology and the sociology of emotions with historical anthropology and cultural studies. The authors' argument is based on an analysis of literary sources, mainly novels and plays, applying a sociology of literature approach. By employing and analyzing empirical details of individual cases and texts, the authors reach a clearer understanding of seemingly intangible and irrational aspects of national identity.
Book Synopsis The Manual of Rank and Nobility, Or Key to the Peerage by :
Download or read book The Manual of Rank and Nobility, Or Key to the Peerage written by and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cracking the AP Human Geography Exam, 2012 Edition by : Princeton Review
Download or read book Cracking the AP Human Geography Exam, 2012 Edition written by Princeton Review and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews topics covered on the test, offers tips on test-taking strategies, and includes two full-length practice tests with answers and explanations.
Book Synopsis The manual of rank and nobility, or Key to the peerage: containing the origin and history of all of the various titles, orders, and dignities of the British nobility, etc by :
Download or read book The manual of rank and nobility, or Key to the peerage: containing the origin and history of all of the various titles, orders, and dignities of the British nobility, etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA: A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE FOR THE PEOPLE by :
Download or read book CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA: A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE FOR THE PEOPLE written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chambers's Encyclopædia by : Ephraim Chambers
Download or read book Chambers's Encyclopædia written by Ephraim Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by : William Tait
Download or read book Tait's Edinburgh Magazine written by William Tait and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
