You might also like

More about Institutional Crisis in 21st Century Britain

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 331 loyalty points

Book synopsis

In the 21st Century, a 'perfect storm' appears to have engulfed may of Britain's most important institutions'. The list of those it has enveloped is extensive, but headline acts would include - the banking sector for malpractice, Parliament for its expenses scandal, the media for phone-hacking and the police for duplicity and corruption. It raises a fundamental question of whether there is an endemic and fundamental crisis in British political, economic and social institutions or instead simply a set of contingent events that have been discursively constructed and presented as a collective crisis? This volume offer the first major, wholesale consideration of the extent to which a crisis of legitimacy has taken root in Britain's key institutions. It does so by exploring the nature of crisis across a diverse range of institutions, assessing the accuracy of the 'crisis' label and crucially considers whether a set of shared underlying pathologies exist that has led to a point of collective crisis and the need for fundamental renewal.

Book details

Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political structure & processes

• Full title: Institutional Crisis in 21st Century Britain
• Author: David Richards
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 319
• EAN: 9781137334381
• ISBN: 113733438X
• ID: 02705973
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 568 g
• Dimensions: 148 × 219 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. April 2014

Trending among others

---

---

---