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Parliamentary Affairs 2007 60(3):518-521; doi:10.1093/pa/gsm025
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© The Author [2007]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government; all rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Politics and Power in the United Kingdom

Russell Holden

R. Heffernan and G. Thompson (eds), Politics and Power in the United Kingdom, Edinburgh University Press, 2005, ISBN: 978-0-7486-1969-6, p. 208.

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PRODUCING an introductory text for any academic discipline is a challenging task; however, the work involved in compiling and writing a comprehensive user-friendly and contemporary work for British Politics undergraduate students has to be one of the most daunting tasks to face the political scientist.

With the trend towards receiving ever more information and news on politics and political events from the worldwide web, coupled with the expansion of transmission time by a range of radio and television outlets, much political coverage tends towards simplistic explanation, driven largely by personality rather than policy concerns. Consequently, the importance of producing a thorough introductory text removing misperception and misinformation has intensified.

However, in Politics and Power in the United Kingdom edited by Heffernan and Thompson, both established and well-respected figures in their subject disciplines, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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