Gillian Anderson Book:

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Editorial Review:
This well-established textbook gives students a thorough understanding of the machinery and processes of government in the United Kingdom as well as of the forces shaping the country’s politics. For the fourth edition the text has been substantially updated to take account of the many significant shifts in British politics since 1997, especially the constitutional reforms of the 1997 Labour government.

• Extensive annotated guides to further reading and suggested questions for discussion at the end of each chapter.
  
• A greater use of illustrative material, case studies and graphics, which supplement the text in a lively manner.
  
• Clear summaries of arguments and chronologies of complex events, as well as boxes giving biographical data on significant political figures.
  
• A dedicated website, www.blackwellpublishing.com/peele, features information on the book, sample chapters, updated articles so that teachers and students can be regularly updated between editions.
  
• A range of Internet resources to encourage students to keep up-to-date with a rapidly changing subject matter.

Governing the UK: British Politics in the 21st Century (Modern Governments) Reviews:
A jolly fine book.
2004-01-20 - This book, like its author, is a little intimidating (in fact, she's quite scary in person). Miss Peele's towering intellect is palpable throughout, while the book also demonstrates the phenomenal breadth and depth of her knowledge of British Politics. The complexity of the interplay between the myriad political actors in the UK is brilliantly expressed and analysed while subsidiary factors which in turn affect those agents and bodies are clearly explained and illustrated. In my experience the book is especially valuable to those facing immanent essay deadlines! The only problem of course is that this third edition is (as I write this) about eight years out of date. If your interest is primarily in British Politics before 1995 then you really ought to read this book. If not, then perhaps you should consider waiting for the next edition, which I believe will be available later this year (2004). I'm sure it will be just as good. Alternatively, the latest edition of "Developments in British Politics" (by Patrick Dunleavy, Andrew Gamble, Richard Heffernan, and Gillian Peele eds.) will serve to bring you up to date.

Unsure
2001-05-01 - I was quite ambivalent about this book. At first I decided to judge it by its cover, but upon reading it was tempted to instead judge it by its merits. Either way, the score was pretty much the same - so by the end I was still undecided. Not a dull book, exactly - but then, its not exactly anything.