The British Party System

This textbook continues to provide the best introduction currently available to the British Party system, explaining the history, structure, actors and policies of both the main political parties - Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrats - and the minor parties such as Welsh and Scottish Nationalists, Eurosceptic groups and the Greens.

Substantially revised and updated since the last edition, this fourth edition contains new material on:

• the political party system in post-devolution Scotland and Wales
• the media and political parties
• the emergence of minor parties onto the British political landscape
• the 2001 and 2005 General Elections
• the replacement of party ideology with political pragmatism.

British Political Parties is the ideal book for students of British politics wanting a topical and accessible text on political parties in the UK.