Democratic Drift: Majoritarian Modification and Democratic Anomie in the United Kingdom - Hardcover

Although there is no doubt that the constitution has been significantly reformed since the election of New Labour in 1997 the degree to which these reforms have altered the nature of democracy in the United Kingdom remains highly contested. A major problem within this debate is that it has become polarized around a binary distinction between power-sharing and power-hoarding models of democracy when the contemporary situation is actually far more complex. This book draws upon theories and methods from comparative political analysis in order to argue and then demonstrate three central and inter-related arguments.

Matthew Flinders is Professor of Parliamentary Government and Governance at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. In 2002 he won the Harrison Prize, and in 2004 was the inaugural recipient of the Richard Rose Prize (both awarded by the Political Studies Association of the UK). During 2005-2006 he held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, and also held a Whitehall Fellowship within the Cabinet Office.