Product Description: The events of recent years have demonstrated beyond doubt not only that ethnic pluralism presents major problems for the management of political systems, but that it is also a major cause of their failure and disintegration. This timely and topical book discusses the general issue of ethnic pluralism and considers a range of types of multi-ethnic society within a common analytical framework...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: New parties in British politics are unusual and successful new parties even more so. This book explains how the Liberal Democrats have established themselves and provides a comprehensive account of their role in British politics today...read more