Description
This student mainstay continues to be organised around constitutional themes, with new material on local elections, the politics of the centre and the limits of state power. Essential for all introductory students of British politics and current affairs. Review: . . . remains the best of the many general texts on British government and politics to be published in the last twelve years or so. - The TImes Highter Education Supplement . . . the well-known strengths of Mackintosh's original book are sustained and extended. - Parliamentary Affairs