• ISBN13: 9780333987056
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publisher Imprint: Palgr Mac
• Publication Date: May 16, 2003
• Pages: 416
• Original Price: GBP 19.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1000 grams

About the Book Bringing together a set of specially commissioned chapters by leading authorities, this book provides an accessible introduction to politics and political change in the UK. It provides a systematic assessment of New Labour in government focusing in particular on continuities and contrasts between its first and second terms and with traditional social democracy. A central innovation is the concept of multi-focal politics to explain the consequences of globalization, Europeanization and devolution for the nature and distribution of power in the UK.