Polity has established a major presence as an academic publisher in the field of politics. These introductory titles by key authors are designed to encourage students to think laterally around the subject area. All paperback editions featured here are available on inspection if you teach a relevant course with over 12 students.

Format: 229 x 152 mm 250 pages Publication date: May 1999 ISBN: 9780745620299 hb / 9780745620305 pb Price: £50.00/ £14.99	Postwar British Politics in Perspective David Marsh, Jim Buller, Colin Hay, Jim Johnston, Peter Kerr, Stuart McAnulla and Matthew Watson All are at the University of Birmingham "This is an iconoclastic book, which challenges established interpretations of British politics since 1945 and develops its own powerful new approach to understanding social and political change. It deserves to be widely read". Andrew Gamble, University of Sheffield This broad-ranging and original text provides an accessible introduction to British politics since 1945, challenging many well-established orthodoxies. It focuses on conceptions of political consensus, evolution and transformation, continuity and discontinuity in presenting a consistent and distinctive account of social, political and economic change in the postwar years.

Format: 229 x 152 mm 232 pages Publication date: September 1999 ISBN: 9780745620244 hb / 9780745620251 pb Price: £50.00 / £14.99	British Politics in the Global Age Can Social Democracy Survive? Joel Krieger Wellesley College, USA Joel Krieger, one of America's most perceptive observers of British politics, provides an in-depth study of New Labour's model of government and the political challenges it faces. Krieger analyses the interaction of global processes and domestic politics from the organization of production to the formation of class, ethnic and gender based collective identities. The book considers how these processes compromise sovereignty, complicate national identities, forge new political agendas, create electoral volatility and complicate the art of politics.

Format: 229 x 152 mm 375 pages Publication date: 1995 ISBN: 9780745600567 pb Price: £14.99	Democracy and the Global Order From The Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance David Held This volume offers a highly original account of the changing meaning of democracy in the contemporary world. Uniquely, it offers both an historical and philosophical analysis of the nature and prospects of the modern democratic state.