Politics in Transition is a unique and innovative introduction to the key debates about politics and the state in the United Kingdom today.
The authors draw on a wide range of disciplines - politics, sociology and economics - to highlight the issue of structural change and uneven development. The authors locate the United Kingdom firmly within the world political system but also investigate the roots of its individuality within that system. They analyse the ways in which the country is itself fragmented regionally, socially and at a local level.
Politics in Transition is a course book for the Open University course, D314 Restructuring Britain.
About the Editors:
Allan Cochrane is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies at The Open University. He is co-author of Ideologies of Welfare (1987) and Economic Policy-Making by Local Authorities in Britain and West Germany (1981), editor of Developing Local Wconomic Strategies (1987) and co-editor of City, Economy and Society (1981).
James Anderson is a Lecturer in Geography at The Open University. He has written extensively on nationalism and edited The Rise of the Modern State (1986). He is co-editor of States and Societies (1983) and Redundant Spaces in Cities and Regions (1983).