The UK's changing democracy: the 2018 Democratic Audit

Dunleavy, Patrick, Park, Alice and Taylor, Ros, eds. (2018) The UK's changing democracy: the 2018 Democratic Audit. Democratic Audit. LSE Press, London, UK. ISBN 9781909890466

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The UK’s Changing Democracy presents a uniquely democratic perspective on all aspects of UK politics, at the centre in Westminster and Whitehall, and in all the devolved nations. The 2016 referendum vote to leave the EU marked a turning point in the UK’s political system. In the previous two decades, the country had undergone a series of democratic reforms, during which it seemed to evolve into a more typical European liberal democracy. The establishment of a Supreme Court, adoption of the Human Rights Act, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish devolution, proportional electoral systems, executive mayors and the growth in multi-party competition all marked profound changes to the British political tradition. Brexit may now bring some of these developments to a juddering halt. The UK’s previous ‘exceptionalism’ from European patterns looks certain to continue indefinitely. ‘Taking back control’ of regulations, trade, immigration and much more is the biggest change in UK governance for half a century. It has already produced enduring crises for the party system, Parliament and the core executive, with uniquely contested governance over critical issues, and a rapidly changing political landscape. Other recent trends are no less fast-moving, such as the revival of two-party dominance in England, the re-creation of some mass membership parties and the disruptive challenges of social media...

Item Type:	Book
Official URL:	https://press.lse.ac.uk/
Additional Information:	© 2018 Democratic Audit and the individual authors © CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Divisions:	Government
Subjects:	J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Date Deposited:	02 Nov 2018 13:37
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2024 05:35
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/90536

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