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An Essay on British Politics

Citizens and Subjects

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Citizens and Subjects book

An Essay on British Politics
ByTony Wright
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1993
eBook Published 4 November 1993
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203408582
Pages 168
eBook ISBN 9780203408582
Subjects Politics & International Relations
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Wright, T. (1993). Citizens and Subjects: An Essay on British Politics (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203408582

ABSTRACT

Citizens and Subjects is an essay on the nature and condition of democracy in Britain at the end of the twentieth century. It looks at the commonly held view that Britain is a model democracy, exposing it as a dangerous myth that inhibits both radical thought and actual constitutional change. The book looks at the tradition of political and constitutional thought in Britain and at contemporary political reality, revealing a wide gulf between the two.
Dr Wright, a respected teacher and academic recently elected a Labour MP, considers Britain's particularly acute form of a general problem of modern government. While the nation thinks of itself as a liberal democracy, its liberalism was in fact in place well before democracy came onto the agenda. From the outset, democracy was seen as a problem by both conservatives and liberals.
Constitutional issues have re-emerged on the political agenda in recent years. Dr Wright discusses the means by which we might move towards a pluralistic, open and participatory democracy; he also argues, however, that practical reforms will not be possible unless they are linked to a new tradition of radical constitutional thought.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|7 pages

The image and the system

chapter 2|7 pages

The place and the problem

chapter 3|7 pages

Democracy and the constitution: New wine, old bottles

chapter 4|7 pages

Dominocracy

chapter 5|7 pages

Doubts and discontents

chapter 6|7 pages

Representative government revisited

chapter 7|7 pages

Responsible government revisited

chapter 8|7 pages

Political culture: Democracy unvisited

chapter 9|7 pages

Democracy and ideology: The left

chapter 10|7 pages

Democracy and ideology: The right

chapter 11|7 pages

The missing traditions

chapter 12|7 pages

Centralism and localism

chapter 13|7 pages

Consumers, producers and citizens

chapter 14|7 pages

Reconstructions I: Representation

chapter 15|7 pages

Reconstructions II: Accountability

chapter 16|7 pages

Reconstructions III: Participation

chapter 17|7 pages

Reconstructions IV: Openness

chapter 18|6 pages

The end of politics?

chapter 19|6 pages

Becoming citizens

chapter 20|4 pages

Postscript on prospects

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