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Richard Rose - The Prime Minister in a Shrinking World - 9780745627298 - V9780745627298
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The Prime Minister in a Shrinking World

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Description for The Prime Minister in a Shrinking World Hardback. In the days when Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee faced each other in the House of Commons, there was disagreement about whose hands should be on the Mace, the symbol of power at Westminster. Everyone assumed that the hands on the Mace would be British. Num Pages: 296 pages, 38. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JPHC; JPHL; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 560.
In the days when Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee faced each other in the House of Commons, there was disagreement about whose hands should be on the Mace, the symbol of power at Westminster. Everyone assumed that the hands on the Mace would be British. In the past half century, the Prime Minister's power at Westminster has increased greatly, but it has diminished in the worlds beyond.

In Westminster, the Prime Minister is now first without equal. But in councils of the European Union, he or she is only one among fifteen national leaders. In a shrinking world the ... Read more

In an era of television politics, the faces and voices of Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair are familiar to every voter, and the press cooperates in turning politicians into media celebrities. But what you see on the box is politics; it has little to do with the policies of British government. Old-school leaders such as Harold Macmillan devoted as much time to policy as to politics. But new-style prime ministers put politics first.

Tony Blair wants to speak for all the British people, but the result is 'managed populism', for his voice travels down a one-way street. In Whitehall, Blair's Third Way blunts the cutting edge of policy, leaving officials puzzled about what to do when hard choices arise, especially about Europe.

Anyone interested in politics and current affairs, whether a student or a thoughtful reader and viewer, will find insight and illumination in a book that draws on the author's unrivalled first-hand knowledge of British politics over the past half century.

Richard Rose's work has been recognized by a lifetime achievement award from the Political Studies Association. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745627298
SKU
V9780745627298
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About Richard Rose
Richard Rose is Director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy and Sixth Century Chair in Politics at the University of Aberdeen. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Reviews for The Prime Minister in a Shrinking World
'The best-informed analysis of the pressures on and limits of the Prime Minister in the new century.' Dennis Kavanagh, University of Liverpool 'Richard Rose has an unusual ability to look at familiar questions about power - and its exercise in Downing Street - from a fresh, and invariably provocative, perspective. In The Prime Minister in a Shrinking World he ... Read more

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