Abstract
Richard Rose’s Politics in England was not just a textbook. Its origins mark it out from the range of other texts that students of British politics could look to in the mid-1960s, most of which adopted a legal and/or historical approach to the study of British politics. Politics in England was part of a series of books—the ‘Little, Brown’ series—that reflected the vision of comparative politics associated with a ‘structural-functional’ approach that gained greatest popularity after the late 1950s, and above all with the ideas and active promotion of Gabriel Almond who, along with Lucien Pye, edited the series each volume with the simple title Politics in ….
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
This is further discussed in the chapters by Keating and by Hayes and McAllister in this volume.
- 2.
See Guy Peters’ chapter in this volume.
- 3.
See Thomas Remington’s chapter in this volume.
- 4.
- 5.
‘Buried within mountains of obiter dicta and quotes from pre-1939 secondary sources are sufficient ideas to sustain a reasonable essay on the persistence through the centuries of a common political culture in England’ (Rose 1962, 754).
- 6.
One of the present authors spent a good portion of his first year in graduate school in long, abstruse discussions of the meanings of the abstract terms used to describe the political process.
- 7.
This process, or ‘stages’, model to some extent picked up ideas from the policy sciences, especially those of Harold Lasswell (1956).
References
Alford, R. 1963. Party and Society: The Anglo-American Democracies. Chicago: Rand McNally.
Almond, G.A. 1960. A Functional Approach to Comparative Politics. In The Politics of the Developing Areas, ed. G.A. Almond and J.S. Coleman. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press.
———. 1965. A Developmental Approach to Political Systems. World Politics 17 (2): 183–214.
Almond, G.A., and G.B. Powell. 1966. Comparative Politics: A Developmental Approach. Boston: Little, Brown.
Almond, G.A., and S. Verba. 1963. The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press.
Beloff, M. 1966. Book Review: Politics in England. Public Administration 44 (1): 107–109.
Bendor, J. 2015. Incrementalism: Dead Yet Flourishing. Public Administration Review 75 (1): 194–205.
Benney, M., A. Gray, and R. Pear. 1956. How People Vote. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Butler, D.E. 1955. Voting Behaviour and Its Study in Britain. British Journal of Sociology 6 (2): 93–103.
Butler, D.E., and D. Stokes. 1969. Political Change in Britain. 1st ed. London: Macmillan.
———. 1974. Political Change in Britain. 2nd ed. London: Macmillan.
Crick, B. 1959. The American Science of Politics: Its Origins and Conditions. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Curtice, J. 1994. Great Britain: Imported Ideas in a Changing Political Landscape. European Journal of Political Research 25 (2): 267–286.
Curtice, J., and M. Steed. 1982. Electoral Choice and the Production of Government: The Changing Operation of the Electoral System in the United Kingdom Since 1955. British Journal of Political Science 12 (1): 249–298.
Denver, D., and M. Garnett. 2014. Introduction. In British General Elections Since 1964: Diversity, Dealignment, and Disillusion, ed. D. Denver and M. Garnett. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Freeman, G.P. 1985. National Styles and Policy Sectors: Explaining Structured Variation. Journal of Public Policy 5 (4): 467–496.
Fulton Report. 1968. The Civil Service. Vol 1, Report of the Committee 1966–68 (Chairman: Lord Fulton), Cmnd. 3638. London: HMSO.
Gwyn, W.B. 1965. Book Review: Politics in England. Journal of Politics 27 (2): 413–414.
Heclo, H. 1974. Modern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden: From Relief to Income Maintenance. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Jones, C.O. 1970. An Introduction to the Study of Public Policy. Monterey, CA: Brooks-Cole.
Kenny, M. 2006. History and Dissent: Bernard Crick’s The American Science of Politics. American Political Science Review 100 (4): 547–553.
Lasswell, H.D. 1956. The Decision Process: Seven Categories of Functional Analysis. College Park, MD: University of Maryland.
Lodge, M., and C. Taber. 2013. The Rationalizing Voter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Loewenberg, G. 2006. The Influence of European Émigré Scholars on Comparative Politics, 1925–1965. American Political Science Review 100 (4): 597–604.
McAllister, I. 1985. Campaign Activity and Electoral Outcomes in Britain, 1979 and 1983. Public Opinion Quarterly 49 (4): 300–315.
McAllister, I., and R. Rose. 1984. The Nation-Wide Competition for Votes: The British General Election of 1983. London: Frances Pinter.
Milne, R.S., and H.C. Mackenzie. 1954. Straight Fight 1951. London: Hansard Society.
———. 1958. Marginal Seat 1955. London: Hansard Society.
Nossiter, T.J. 1966. Book Review: Politics in England. Political Studies 14 (3): 380.
Pulzer, P. 1967. Political Representation and Elections in Britain. London: Allen and Unwin.
Rose, R. 1962. Review: Party Politics (Volume III): The Stuff of Politics. Sir Ivor Jennings. American Political Science Review 56 (3): 753–754.
———. 1965. Politics in England London: Faber and Faber.
———. 1969. Policymaking in Britain. London: Macmillan.
———. 1974a. Politics in England Today. 2nd ed. London: Faber.
———. 1974b. The Problem of Party Government. London: Macmillan.
———. 1979. Ungovernability: Is There Fire Behind the Smoke? Political Studies 27 (3): 351–370.
———. 1984. Do Parties Make a Difference? London: Macmillan.
———. 1989. Politics in England: Change and Persistence. 5th ed. London: Scott, Foresman.
———. 2021. How Sick Is British Democracy? A Clinical Analysis. London: Palgrave.
Rose, R., and W.J.M. Mackenzie. 1991. Comparing Forms of Comparative Analysis. Political Studies 39 (3): 446–462.
Rose, R., and I. McAllister. 1986. Voters Begin to Choose: From Closed Class to Open Elections in Britain. London: Sage.
———. 1990. The Loyalties of Voters: A Lifetime Learning Model. London: Sage.
Rose, R., and B.G. Peters. 1978. Can Government Go Bankrupt? New York: Basic Books.
Rothman, S. 1971. Comparative Government. Political Studies 19 (1): 92–94.
Steed, M. 1965. An Analysis of the Results. In The British General Election of 1964, ed. D.E. Butler and A. King. London: Macmillan.
Steinmo, S., F. Longstreth, and K.A. Thelen. 1992. Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2023 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Keating, M., McAllister, I., Page, E.C., Peters, B.G. (2023). Politics in England. In: Keating, M., McAllister , I., Page, E.C., Peters, B.G. (eds) The Problem of Governing . Executive Politics and Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40817-5_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40817-5_2
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-031-40816-8
Online ISBN: 978-3-031-40817-5
eBook Packages: Political Science and International StudiesPolitical Science and International Studies (R0)