"This best-selling text provides a rigorous introduction to political science today, highlighting the rich variety of ways in wich politics can be studied. Offering an accessible overview of the key approaches and methods for researching politics, it aims to ispire students to t…
A study of what ethnic minorities in Britain think about and how they engage in British politics. It considers the ways in which ethnic minorities resemble or differ from the white British population, and differences between different minority groups.
Britain has become increasingly diverse over the last fifty years and she has been fortunate to attract relatively highly educated immigrants with democratic values and positive perceptions of the British political system. But Britain's ethnic minorities have suffered prejudice,…
The problem of how to treat pupils who are deemed too unruly or disruptive to be educated alongside their fellow children is one which will never go away. The authors of this challenging and direct book examine the root causes of this problem in order to address it in a reasoned…
Traditionally, home circumstances or school regimes have been blamed for the worst excesses of pupil disaffection. The authors argue that this simplistic response to a complex problem needs to be re-examined. The book reports the findings of a research programme, based in Aberde…