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Seldom, if ever, have the affairs of a political party, let alone two political parties, been conducted as publicly as the negotiations between the Liberals and the Social Democrats. The wheeling and dealing throw a good deal of light on the reality of party politics in Britain.
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Ball, A. (1987) British Political Parties (Macmillan).
Bottomore, T. (1979) Political Sociology (Hutchinson).
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© 1991 David Barrat, Chris Brown, Tony Cole, Peter de la Cour, David Cutler and Karim Murji, Roger Gomm, Patrick McNeill
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McNeill, P. (1991). Party Politics in Democracy. In: Society Today 2. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12065-9_10
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