Rational Choice and British Politics
An Analysis of Rhetoric and Manipulation from Peel to Blair
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:5th Apr '01
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This engaging and original study, by one of Britain's leading scholars of rational choice theory, explores the course of British parliamentary politics over the last 150 years. McLean marries an appealing combination of social science and analytical narrative history to the great turning points in British politics - the Repeal of the Corn Law; the Victorian crisis of the Liberal and Conservative Parties; the Irish Question and Lloyd George's solution to it; the New Liberal origins of the welfare state; the politics of race and empire under Chamberlain and Powell; and the politics of 'there is no alternative' under Margaret Thatcher.
McLean's research is excellent, his writing is polished and witty, and his cases are well selected to cover some of the truly fascinating moments of British politics ... From a scholarly perspective, there are some novel and interesting parts to McLean's work. * American Political Science Review *
ISBN: 9780198295303
Dimensions: 242mm x 162mm x 19mm
Weight: 526g
272 pages