UK Government & PoliticsThis edition is revised in the light of the change of government in 1997 and the compulsory UK sections of the A levels syllabuses. Additions include: comparisons with the USA and Europe; Europe; and party politics. |
Contents
Written and unwritten constitutions | 11 |
Elections | 19 |
Proportional representation PR | 28 |
Political parties | 39 |
The party system | 50 |
Political ideologies | 67 |
Parliamentary sovereignty | 82 |
Parliament | 87 |
Functions of higher civil servants | 136 |
Potential civil service bias | 149 |
The monarchy | 163 |
The composition of Parliament | 164 |
Judicial power | 182 |
Why have local government? | 194 |
States and nations | 207 |
Pressure groups | 224 |
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