How Sick Is British Democracy?

Richard Rose is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde, UK, and a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute Florence, Italy, and the Science Centre Berlin, Germany. He has been writing award-winning studies of British politics and democracy in comparative perspective for more than half a century.

• 1. Diagnosing the Health of the Body Politic.- 2. Elections the Heart of Government.- 3. Party as the Lifeblood of Government.- 4. A Single Brain in Downing Street.- 5. Whitehall's Collective Brainpower.- 6. The Limbs of A Disunited Kingdom.- 7. An Unbalance Constitution.- 8. Limits on Democratic Sovereignty.- 9. A Mixed Bill of Health for British Democracy.