- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Politico's Publishing Ltd; illustrated edition edition (1 Jun 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1842750291
- ISBN-13: 978-1842750292
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.2 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,178,612 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Looks at parliamentary revolts during the first Balir Government.
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Revolts and Rebellions provides the first ever detailed analysis of parliamentary voting behaviour across the political specturm. It includes analysis of what happens to party allegiances under circumstances such as free votes on hunting with dogs, what causes dissent from the party line, and what happens to MPs when they lose the whip.
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PLEASE IGNORE THE COVER OF THIS BOOK!,
By M Williams (Hull, East Yorkshire, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Revolts and Rebellions: Parliamentary Voting Under Blair (Hardcover)
If you can get beyond a cover which appears to show the Campaign Group's mid-70s Top of the Pops appearance you will find an assiduously researched and entertainingly written account of parliamentary behaviour during the Blair governments.Firstly, 'Revolts & Rebellions' serves as an extremely useful document of record, with chapters outlining the backbench Labour rebellions that occurred between 1997 and 2001. Importantly however, the book goes on to analyse and explain these events. A central feature of the author's argument is that we must go beyond the media's familiar but misleading complaint that the Labour backbenches have been stuffed with meek sheep or pager-led daleks. With the aid of statistical analysis of MPs' voting and insightful information gleaned from over 150 interviews, Philip Cowley proceeds to explain why some MPs choose to rebel, and, just as importantly why some do not. Here the interviews conducted with MPs prove invaluable in recording how many rebellions were dealt with behind the scenes and away from the floor of the House of Commons. Also included are useful chapters devoted to the conduct of the record number of women MPs and the activities of the opposition parties (indeed so thorough is this book, the one independent MP, Martin Bell, gets his own appendix!). This intelligent, well-researched book deserves a wide readership: MPs will find an analysis of their behaviour which treats them as grown-up human-beings; students of parliament and British politics will find an in-depth account of parliamentary life under Blair, and a counter-weight to the media's sometimes sloppy reporting of it; and, for those who have to deal with politicians professionally, or are simply represented by them, 'Revolts & Rebellions' offers an accessible and first-class insight into how and why MPs behave as they do.
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