NEW DIRECTIONS IN BRITISH POLITICS?

Edited by Philip Norton, Professor of Government, University of Hull, UK

• Contents: 1. Introduction (Philip Norton) 2. How Much Room at the Top? Margaret Thatcher, the Cabinet and Power Sharing (Peter Hennessy) 3. Judicial Independence in Britain: Challenges Real and Threats Imagined (Gavin Drewry) 4. The Changing Face of Parliament – Lobbying and its Consequences (Philip Norton) 5. Now Nobody Understands the System: The Changing Face of Local Government (R.A.W. Rhodes) 6. The Community and Britain: The Changing Relationship Between London and Brussels (Lord Clinton-Davis) 7. Parliamentary Sovereignty in the 1990s (J. Enoch Powell) 8. In Defence of the Constitution – A Riposte to the Radicals (Philip Norton)

'It is an ideal volume to stimulate discussion among students of British government, central and local.'