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· 제목 : How Sick Is British Democracy?: A Clinical Analysis (Hardcover, 2021)
· 분류 : 외국도서 > 인문/사회 > 정치학 > 세계정치 > 유럽
· ISBN : 9783030731229
· 쪽수 : 178쪽
· 출판일 : 2021-05-22
· 분류 : 외국도서 > 인문/사회 > 정치학 > 세계정치 > 유럽
· ISBN : 9783030731229
· 쪽수 : 178쪽
· 출판일 : 2021-05-22
목차
1. Diagnosing the Health of the Body Politic
- Democracy: a disembodied ideal
- Anatomizing the body politic
- Many symptoms of ill health
- Potentially fatal symptoms
2. Elections the Heart of Government
- Institutionalizing choice
- Responsibility for government fixed
- What voters make of their choice
3. Party as the Lifeblood of Government
- Parties decide who can become an MP
- Representing society in Parliament
- Representing voters in Parliament
- MPs can influence policy but not govern
4. A Single Brain in Downing Street
- Parties decide who can become prime minister
- What a prime minister can and can't do
- Personality constant, popularity fluctuates
- Two ways to become an ex-prime minister
5. Whitehall's Collective Brainpower
- Cabinet ministers fill gaps left by Downing Street
- Opening up with market for policymaking
- Shuffling and reshuffling accountability
6. The Limbs of A Disunited Kingdom
- Multiple Identities
- A unitary Crown without uniformity
- Four national party systems
- The contingency of consent
- Politicians are the judges of what they can do
- Constitutional rights are not politics as usual
- Constitutional disputes need political resolution
8. Limits on Democratic Sovereignty
- Governance creates interdependence
- No island is an island unto itself
- Brexit: a domestic foreign policy
- What Britons think of democracy
- Diagnosis: Intermittent ills, none fatal
- Prescriptions for treatment
- Coda
