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Reading Notes, Autumn 1982: How to Look, or Not to Look, at Modern British Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Ghiţa Ionescu
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Government and Opposition , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , 01 January 1983 , pp. 88 - 94
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1983

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References

1 London, Faber and Faber, 1982, 224 pp., $9.50.

2 Kavanagh, D., ‘The Deferential English: A Comparative Critique’, Government and Opposition, Vol. 6, No. 3, 1971, pp. 333–60CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Modernized by Bagehot, the expression has remained in the realm of political journalese. Almond and Verba, with that particular American interest in traditional British political customs, transformed it into a principal indicator of British political culture. Kavanagh took it up again in order to reassess its relative importance in that culture. While British political analysts use ‘deference’ with the requisite pinch of salt, Americans tend to distort it into a key‐concept.

4 Cox, Andrew (ed.): Politics, Policy and the European Recession, London, Macmillan, 1982, 267 pp.CrossRefGoogle Scholar, $20.00.

5 Dahrendorf, Ralf: On Britain, London, BBC, 200 pp.Google Scholar, $7.25 (hardback), $2.95 (paperback).