Ballard C. Campbell, Representative Democracy: Public Policy and Midwestern Legislatures in the Late Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980) $20.00.

1983 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 501-504
Author(s):  
Allan J. Lichtman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Representative Democracy ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Introduction: From Last Empress to First Minister

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
William L. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Population Sizes ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Parliamentary Procedure ◽  
Changing Role

This book outlines the association between Scotland and England since the Union of the Crowns in 1603. Individual chapters range in focus from the late nineteenth century to the foreseeable future. They cover topics from the monarchy, constitution, parliamentary procedure, public policy and finance to the attitudes, experiences and identities of the ordinary Scots and English — both as majorities and as minorities in each other's country. They also include the natural inequality of the union in consequence of population sizes; trends in culture and identity; the changing role of the state; cross-border sympathy; and the pressure of adversarial politics. Gini's ‘Coefficient of Inequality’ is used to calculate the concentration of income or wealth within countries. Culture and identity are not merely conceptually and empirically distinct, they seem to be trending in opposite directions: cultures are merging, identities diverging. An overview of the chapters included in this book is shown.

Party Constraints on Leaders in Pursuit of Change

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-176
Author(s):  
Patricia Sykes
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Party System ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The U.S

Since the late nineteenth century, dissatisfaction with the U.S. party system has led political scientists to look across the Atlantic for ”responsible parties,” cohesive teams with leaders who articulate and promote distinctive programs for public policy. Yet U.S. political scientists have been misguided when they have searched for a different, superior set of parties in the United Kingdom. British parties have never possessed the internal cohesion characteristic of the responsible-parties model. Nor have they, for that matter, empowered their leaders to pursue change. When parties prove significant, influence operates in the British environment much as it does in the U.S. context—as a commodity bargained for among groups within the two major parties.

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