Governing Britain

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Governing Britain is written by Patrick Diamond and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0857723790 (ISBN 10) and 9780857723796 (ISBN 13).

Number Ten Downing Street and the Cabinet Office are at the apex of power in British government, but relatively little is known about the day to day functioning of these great institutions of state. Drawing on an unprecedented level of access and wide-ranging interviews with former ministers, senior civil servants and political advisers, Patrick Diamond examines the administrative and political machinery serving the Prime Minister. By exploring the ideological beliefs underpinning the policy-making process and in illuminating the importance of the British Political Tradition in shaping the institutions and practice of statecraft, this book reveals the contemporary realities of government and democracy in practice.