Acknowledgements

Series Preface

Introduction

PART I APPROACHES

`Theories of British Politics', Political Studies, 38, pp. 404--20

Andrew Gamble

`The Character of Modern British Politics', Parliamentary Affairs, 28, pp. 368--85.

W.H. Greenleaf

PART II HISTORICAL CONTEXT

`The Second World War, Consensus, and the Foundation of the Welfare State', Twentieth Century British History, 1, pp. 152--82.

Rodney Lowe

`The United Kingdom as a Multi-national State', Studies In British Politics, (3rd edn), London: Macmillan, pp. 115--50.

Richard Rose

`The New Governance: Governing without Governemt', Political Studies, 44, pp. 652--67.

R.A.W. Rhodes

PART III POWER AND THE STATE

`The Problem of the Capitalist State', New Left Review, 58, pp. 67--78.

Nicos Poulantzas

`The Capitalist State: Reply to Nicos Poulantzas,' New Left Review, 59, pp. 53--60.

Ralph Miliband

`Policy Networks: A British Perspective,' Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2, pp. 293--317.

R.A.W. Rhodes

`Model or Metaphor? A Critical Review of the Policy Network Approach', Political Studies, 43, pp. 136--58.

Keith Dowding

PART IV THE CONSTITUTION

`Bringing the Constitution Back In: Political Science and the State', Political Studies, 37, pp. 521--39.

John Dearlove

`Interpreting the Constitution', An inaugural lecture delivered at the University of Swansea on 1 December 1955. Reprinted in P. King (ed.) (1977), The Study of Politics: A Collection of Inaugural Lectures, London: Frank Cass, pp. 97--117.

J.C. Rees

`Subsidiarity and the Community's Constitutional Future', Centre for European Studies, Nuffield College, Oxford, pp. 1--26.

Andrew Adonis

Stuart Jones

PART V ELECTIONS AND PARTIES

`Partisan Dealignment in Britain 1964--1974', British Journal of Political Science, 7, pp. 129--90.

Ivor Crewe

Bo Sarlvik

James Alt

`On the Death and Resurrection of Class Voting: Some Comments on How Britain Votes', Political Studies, 34, pp. 620--38.

Ivor Crewe

`Trendless Fluctuation: a Reply to Crewe', Political Studies, 35, pp. 256--77.

Anthony Health

Roger Jowell

John Curtice

`Power in the Parties: R.T. McKenzie and After', West European Politics, 21, pp. 28--43.

Dennis Kavanagh

PART VI PRESSURE GROUPS

`Pressure Groups in British Government', British Journal of Sociology, 6, pp. 133--48.

W.J.M. Mackenzie

`Insider Groups, Outsider Groups and Interest Group Strategies in Britain', University of Warwick, Department of Politics, Working Paper No. 10, pp. 1--14.

W. Grant

PART VII PARLIAMENT

`Parliament in the United Kingdom: Balancing Effectiveness and Consent?', West European Politics, 13, pp. 10--31.

Philip Norton

`Elective Dictatorship' in The Dilemma of Democracy: Diagnosis and Prescrption, London: Collins, pp. 125--32.

Lord Hailsham

`The Rise of the Career Politician in Britain -- and its Consequences', British Journal of Political Science, 11, pp. 249--85.

Anthony King

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