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In the 21st Century, a 'perfect storm' appears to have engulfed may of Britain's most important institutions'. The list of those it has enveloped is extensive, but headline acts would include - the banking sector for malpractice, Parliament for its expenses scandal, the media for phone-hacking and the police for duplicity and corruption. It raises a fundamental question of whether there is an endemic and fundamental crisis in British political, economic and social institutions or instead simply a set of contingent events that have been discursively constructed and presented as a collective crisis? This volume offer the first major, wholesale consideration of the extent to which a crisis of legitimacy has taken root in Britain's key institutions. It does so by exploring the nature of crisis across a diverse range of institutions, assessing the accuracy of the 'crisis' label and crucially considers whether a set of shared underlying pathologies exist that has led to a point of collective crisis and the need for fundamental renewal

The 1997 change in government was always going to be a challenge for Whitehall and the incoming Labour opposition. It was in the interest of both sets of actors to seek to maintain the image of the 'seamless web of government' and so sustain the Westminster model. This article examines how the transition was handled, in the light of the revision to the existing 'Douglas Home rules' and analyses its effectiveness. It draws on extensive interviews conducted by the author with key actors involved in the exercise and identifies a number of lessons drawn from 1997 to improve future transitions. Adapted from the source document.