Beyond Proportional Representation
David Marquand, 18 February 1982
The People and the Party System: The Referendum and Electoral Reform in British Politics
by Vernon Bogdanor.
Cambridge, 285 pp., £20, September 1981,9780521242073 Show More
by Vernon Bogdanor.
Cambridge, 285 pp., £20, September 1981,
“... just with the ends for which state power can be used, but with the way in which power is won and held: not just with the content of public policy, but with the way in which policy is made and implemented: not just with what governments do, but with what government is. To be sure, the ‘Attlee consensus’ had a constitutional dimension. Its adherents were ... ”