Matthew Flinders is Reader in Parliamentary Government and Governance at the University of Sheffield. He was awarded the Harrison Prize in 2002, the Richard Rose Prize in 2004, and during 2005-2006 he held a Whitehall Fellowship within the Cabinet Office. Andrew Gamble is Professor of Politics and Head of Department at the University of Cambridge. He currently holds a Leverhulme Fellowship (2004-07), researching images of Anglo-America in British politics. Colin Hay is Professor of Political Analysis and co-director of the Political Economy Research Centre at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of a number of books, including: Why We Hate Politics (Polity, 2007), Political Analysis (Palgrave, 2002) and The Political Economy of New Labour (Manchester University Press, 1999). He is co-founder and co-editor of the journals Comparative European Politics and British Politics and an editor of New Political Economy. Michael Kenny is Professor of Politics at Sheffield University. He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals New Political Economy and Contemporary Political Theory. From January 2008 Professor Kenny is seconded for 2 years to work with the IPPR. His main research interests are in the fields of contemporary political theory, political ideas in modern Britain, and trans-national politics and political thought.

British politics was long feted and later neglected as an idiosyncratic system of dwindling significance in liberal democratic politics. Now, after a series of sweeping constitutional transformations this impressive Handbook reveals a UK politics that is increasingly part of the European and democratic mainstreams once again. In place of the tired partisan verities of conventional British political analysis, the authors offer much stronger modern political science accounts.

• I. APPROACHES; II. INSTITUTIONS; III. IDENTITIES; IV. INEQUALITIES; V. PROCESSES

Matthew Flinders is Reader in Parliamentary Government and Governance at the University of Sheffield. He was awarded the Harrison Prize in 2002, the Richard Rose Prize in 2004, and during 2005-2006 he held a Whitehall Fellowship within the Cabinet Office. Andrew Gamble is Professor of Politics and Head of Department at the University of Cambridge. He currently holds a Leverhulme Fellowship (2004-07), researching images of Anglo-America in British politics. Colin Hay is Professor of Political Analysis and co-director of the Political Economy Research Centre at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of a number of books, including: Why We Hate Politics (Polity, 2007), Political Analysis (Palgrave, 2002) and The Political Economy of New Labour (Manchester University Press, 1999). He is co-founder and co-editor of the journals Comparative European Politics and British Politics and an editor of New Political Economy. Michael Kenny is Professor of Politics at Sheffield University. He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals New Political Economy and Contemporary Political Theory. From January 2008 Professor Kenny is seconded for 2 years to work with the IPPR. His main research interests are in the fields of contemporary political theory, political ideas in modern Britain, and trans-national politics and political thought.

British politics was long feted and later neglected as an idiosyncratic system of dwindling significance in liberal democratic politics. Now, after a series of sweeping constitutional transformations this impressive Handbook reveals a UK politics that is increasingly part of the European and democratic mainstreams once again. In place of the tired partisan verities of conventional British political analysis, the authors offer much stronger modern political science accounts.

• I. APPROACHES; II. INSTITUTIONS; III. IDENTITIES; IV. INEQUALITIES; V. PROCESSES