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Chapter 03

Models of the British state: from government to governance

The Political Studies Association – Conference Proceedings
www.psa.ac.uk/cps/cps.asp
The Political Studies Association is the professional organisation of political scientists in the UK. The link above takes you to the proceedings of their conference where you will find the full text of a large number of papers since 1994 which address the concerns of this chapter including the evolution of the British state, the character of post-war politics and the nature of the British political tradition.

University College London – The Constitution Unit
www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/
The Constitution Unit's website is an excellent resource on the changing nature of the British State and the Westminster model. Here in particular you will find much information on the impact of devolution in reshaping the framework of British politics.

Mick Moran "The British State After Statism"
ies.berkeley.edu/research/files/SAS04/SAS04-British_Transformed.doc
This will take you to a draft paper (in Microsoft Word format) presented by Mick Moran at a workshop in 2003. Moran looks attempts to solve what he sees as a crisis of the British state in relation to regulation, using some interesting examples. This paper will also prove useful in relation to the material discussed in Chapter 14.

University of Lancaster – Bob Jessop e-prints
eprints.lancs.ac.uk/perl/user_eprints?userid=2
The work of Bob Jessop features heavily in this chapter, particularly in relation to the Keynesian Welfare State and in respect of the continuing debates about governance. Jessop has put many of his book chapters and journal articles online in full-text format. You can browse this selection at the address above and will find challenging but very relevant material on the topics of this chapter.

E-Scholarship Repository, University of California: Mark Bevir and Rod Rhodes "Interpreting British Governance"
repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3171&context=postprints
Another electronic version of the work of scholars mentioned in this chapter. This link takes you to an Adobe Acrobat version of Mark Bevir and Rod Rhodes' 2004 article "Interpreting British Governance".