This new edition provides comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the variety of party systems found at central, devolved and local levels in British politics.

Providing a complete up-to-date overview of the changing nature of contemporary party politics in Britain, this book draws on models of comparative politics and

By the end of the nineteenth century, reform and development of the British electoral system had inaugurated a new style of mass politics which fundamentally tr

`This is an excellent text which charts a safe path for students through the minefield that is contemporary British party politics in a wonderfully efficient ye