Institutional Crisis In 21St Century Britain (Understanding Governance)

In the 21st Century, a 'perfect storm' appears to have engulfed may of Britain's most important institutions'. The list of those it has enveloped is extensive, but headline acts would include - the banking sector for malpractice, Parliament for its expenses scandal, the media for phone-hacking and the police for duplicity and corruption. It raises a fundamental question of whether there is an endemic and fundamental crisis in British political, economic and social institutions or instead simply a set of contingent events that have been discursively constructed and presented as a collective crisis? This volume offer the first major, wholesale consideration of the extent to which a crisis of legitimacy has taken root in Britain's key institutions. It does so by exploring the nature of crisis across a diverse range of institutions, assessing the accuracy of the 'crisis' label and crucially considers whether a set of shared underlying pathologies exist that has led to a point of collective crisis and the need for fundamental renewal.

• • Author: Dave Richards, Martin Smith, Colin Hay
• • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• • Publication Date: Apr 23, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 334 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 113733438X
• • ISBN-13: 9781137334381