Analysing British Politics

Abstract

This chapter outlines some recent developments in the way academic political scientists have described and analysed British politics. Political science is an inherently multi-theoretical discipline. Almost invariably, on major questions there are a number of rival interpretations, framed from different perspectives and often appealing to different kinds of evidence. Some of these models are arguments specific to one area of the political process, while others are building blocks in much broader theories of society or the state.