Would a hung Parliament have made any difference?
Martin Pugh, 21 July 1983
Governing without a Majority
by David Butler.
Collins, 156 pp., £4.95, May 1983,9780002170710 Show More
by David Butler.
Collins, 156 pp., £4.95, May 1983,
Multi-Party Politics and the Constitution
by Vernon Bogdanor.
Cambridge, 207 pp., £18.50, May 1983,0 521 25524 4 Show More
by Vernon Bogdanor.
Cambridge, 207 pp., £18.50, May 1983,
Decade of Dealignment
by Bo Särlvik, Ivor Crewe, Neil Day and Robert MacDermid.
Cambridge, 393 pp., £27.50, June 1983,0 521 22674 0 Show More
by Bo Särlvik, Ivor Crewe, Neil Day and Robert MacDermid.
Cambridge, 393 pp., £27.50, June 1983,
“... But for Britain’s antediluvian electoral system the House of Commons would now comprise around 160 Alliance, 180 Labour and 280 Conservative MPs – and the new books by David Butler and Vernon Bogdanor would have vanished beneath a stampede of eager buyers. As things are, though the distorted election results have robbed them of some of their topicality, they will be very widely and minutely studied by politicians, students of politics and Her Majesty the Queen – or at least by her advisers ... ”
