The indispensable annual British Social Attitudes survey compiles, describes and comments on a range of current social attitudes. The series charts changes in British social values, with annual surveys carried out from a nationwide sample of around 3,500 people by the National Centre for Social Research's team of interviewers. The 19th Report summarizes and interprets data from the most recent survey, and makes comparisons with findings from previous years. Britain is a well-documented nation. We know a lot about the characteristics of our society - who we are and what we do. We know much less about what we think and feel about our world and ourselves.
British Parties and Voters in Long-term Perspective
Did Labour's landslide victory in 1997 mark a critical watershed in British party politics? Did the radical break with 18 years of Conservative rule reflect a fundamental change in the social and ideological basis of British voting behaviour? Critical Elections brings together leading scholars of parties, elections and voting behaviour to ......
To what extent are the techniques of campaigning and media management critical to the outcome of modern elections? This book brings together a group of leading scholars to provide a comprehensive analysis of the role and impact of political communications during election campaigns. They set the context of election campaigning in Britain, and the ......
Why a book on Eavan Boland? No critical study of one of Ireland's most significant and ambitious living poets has been undertaken until now. Her collected writings seek nothing less than a redefinition of the myths structuring the current understanding of Ireland. Much as Shakespeare helped shape the Tudor myth and our historical consciousness of ......
Market Reforms in the United Kingdom, Sweden and The Netherlands
This comprehensive and comparative study of health service change focuses on the influence of health professionals on the process and shape of change. Implementing Health System Reform examines the development and implementation of national health system reorganizations in the UK, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands. Separate chapters examine the ......
Market Reforms in the United Kingdom, Sweden and The Netherlands
This comprehensive and comparative study of health service change focuses on the influence of health professionals on the process and shape of change. Implementing Health System Reform examines the development and implementation of national health system reorganizations in the UK, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands. Separate chapters examine the ......
Presents the history of the female spies who served Britain during World War I, focusing on both the powerful cultural images of the woman spy and the realities, challenges, and contradictions of intelligence service. This book interrogates contradictory constructions of gender in the competing spheres of espionage activity.
