Rational Choice and British Politics: An Analysis of Rhetoric and Manipulation from Peel to Blair

by Iain McLean

Book Overview

This engaging and original study, by one of the leading scholars of rational choice theory, explores the course of British parliamentary politics over the last 150 years. It combines social science and analytical narrative history with the great turning points in British politics: the Repeal of the Corn Law; the Victorian crisis of the Liberal and Conservative Parties; the Irish Question and Lloyd George's solution to it; the New Liberal origins of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198295294
• ISBN13: 9780198295297
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.1"