Butler's British Political Facts

This book is the most comprehensive single volume reference work available for British political facts. Covering the period from 1900 to the present, it is the latest edition in a series previously edited by David Butler and various collaborators. This new edition updates the contents to the immediate post-European Union referendum period in the UK. It is useful to a wide range of potential readers, including students, educators, journalists, policy professionals, and anyone with an interest in politics and political history. It will be valuable to academics working in a variety of disciplines, including history and political science.

• Brexit referendum
• British public policy
• Elections in British history
• British political referendums
• David Butler
• British political constitution
• social conditions in Britain
• justice and law enforcement in Britain
• investigation and regulation in Britain
• religion and politics
• British political statistics
• economics and politics
• British public finance statistics
• devolution in Britain
• local vs national government
• public sector in Britain
• modern British political history
• contemporary British political history
• British Politics
• democracy

“Anyone interested in British politics – as well as competitors in pub quizzes or University Challenge – has to have British Political Facts within reach as a vital and accurate reminder of what happened – it is indispensable.” (Peter Riddell, former political journalist and ex-director of the Institute for Government, UK)

“Blick and Mortimore have succeeded admirably in modernising while keep faith to the spirit of British Political Facts, the most sacred text in recent British Political History” – Sir Anthony Seldon, author of The Blair Effect ,2001)

• King's College London, London, United Kingdom

  Roger Mortimore, Andrew Blick

Roger Mortimore is Professor of Public Opinion and Political Analysis, King’s College London, UK. He is also Director of Political Analysis at the research company Ipsos MORI.

Andrew Blick is Director of History & Policy and Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History, King’s College London, UK.

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