Institutional crisis in 21st century Britain / edited by David Richards, Martin Smith and Colin Hay.

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TextSeries: Understanding governancePublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014Description: xv, 319 p. : ill. ; 23 cmContent type:

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9781137334381
113733438X

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Institutional crisis in twenty-first century Britain

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320.941

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1. Introduction: A Crisis in UK Institutions; David Richards and Martin Smith -- PART I: A THEMATIC APPROACH TO CRISIS -- 1. A Crisis of Expectation; David Richards -- 2. A Crisis of Participation; Sadiya Akram, David Marsh and Brendan McCaffrie -- 3. A Crisis of Politics; Colin Hay -- PART II: SURVEYING INSTITUTIONS IN CRISIS -- 4. A Crisis of Parliament; David Judge -- 5. A Crisis of Political Parties; Martin Smith -- 6. A Crisis of Whitehall; Patrick Diamond -- 7. A Crisis of the Union; Paul Cairney -- 8. A Crisis of the European Union; Charles Dannreuther and Simon Lightfoot -- 9. A Crisis of the Financial Sector; Helen Thompson -- 10. A Crisis of Regulation; Daniel Fitzpatrick and Adam White -- 11. A Crisis of the Medial; Ralph Negrine -- 12. A Crisis of Policing; Layla Skinns -- 13. Conclusion: Apres le Deluge : Crisis, Continuity and Change in UK Institutions; David Richards, Martin Smith and Colin Hay.

Summary: "In the 21st Century, a perfect storm appears to have engulfed many of Britain's most important institutions. The list of those it has enveloped is extensive, but headline acts would include - the banking sector for malpractice, Parliament for its expenses scandal, the media for phone-hacking and the police for duplicity and corruption. It raises a fundamental question of whether there is an endemic and fundamental crisis in British political, economic and social institutions or instead simply a set of contingent events that have been discursively constructed and presented as a collective crisis. This volume offer the first major, wholesale consideration of the extent to which a crisis of legitimacy has taken root in Britain's key institutions. It does so by exploring the nature of crisis across a diverse range of institutions, assessing the accuracy of the 'crisis' label and crucially considers whether a set of shared underlying pathologies exist that has led to a point of collective crisis and the need for fundamental renewal." -- Publisher's description.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-303) and index.

"In the 21st Century, a perfect storm appears to have engulfed many of Britain's most important institutions. The list of those it has enveloped is extensive, but headline acts would include - the banking sector for malpractice, Parliament for its expenses scandal, the media for phone-hacking and the police for duplicity and corruption. It raises a fundamental question of whether there is an endemic and fundamental crisis in British political, economic and social institutions or instead simply a set of contingent events that have been discursively constructed and presented as a collective crisis. This volume offer the first major, wholesale consideration of the extent to which a crisis of legitimacy has taken root in Britain's key institutions. It does so by exploring the nature of crisis across a diverse range of institutions, assessing the accuracy of the 'crisis' label and crucially considers whether a set of shared underlying pathologies exist that has led to a point of collective crisis and the need for fundamental renewal." -- Publisher's description.