Problem of Governing

Michael Keating is Emeritus Professor at the University of Aberdeen, UKIan McAllister is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University, Australia Edward C. Page is Sidney and Beatrice Webb Professor of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UKB. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of American Government at the University of Pittsburgh, USA

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Richard Rose: Connections Over Sixty Years.- Part I: Governing at Multiple Levels.- Chapter 2: Politics in England.- Chapter 3: The United Kingdom as an Intellectual Puzzle.- Part II: Parties and Elections.- Chapter 4: Must Labour Lose?.- Chapter 5: Studying the Interplay of Party Support and Turnout.- Part III: Institutions and Governing.- Chapter 6: Presidents and Prime Ministers: Then and Now.- Chapter 7: The Problem of Party Government.- Chapter 8: Understanding Big Government.- Part IV: Public Policy.- Chapter 9: Learning Across Time and Space: Richard Rose’s Work on Lesson-Drawing.- Chapter 10: Inheritance Before Choice.- Chapter 11: The Ordinary People Perspective: Coping at the Grass-Roots.- Chapter 12: Governments and Citizens Under Stress.- Part V: Trust and Legitimacy.- Chapter 13: Democracy and its Alternatives.- Chapter 14: Northern Ireland: Searching for Consensus.- Chapter 15: Reflections.