Rational Choice and British Politics: An Analysis of Rhetoric and Manipulation from Peel to Blair (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780198295297)

This engaging and original study, by one of the leading scholars of rational choice theory, explores the course of British parliamentary politics over the last 150 years. It combines social science and analytical narrative history with 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.

Author: Iain McLean
ISBN-10: 0198295294
ISBN-13: 9780198295297
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 06/21/2001
Pages: 270
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.48w x 0.57d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2002 pg. 352