Product Description: Updated to take account of the 1992 election and ensuing developments, this book is a guide to Parliament's contemporary role and operation and to prospects for reform in the 1990s. As well as examining the functions, structure and day-to-day working of the Lords and Commons, the author asks what impact Westminster, as opposed to Whitehall, has on the way the British people are governed...read more

Product Description: The 1980s are widely seen as years in which the USA and Britain shared a political transformation under Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. This book compares their impact across the range of public policy and upon their respective political parties...read more