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THIS PAPER DEFINES THE SUPPOSED THREAT TO GOVERNABILITY AS THE PROSPECT OF A FULLY LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT LOSING ITS EFFECTIVENESS, LOSING POPULAR CONSENT, OR BOTH. IT IS CONCLUDED THAT AUTHORITY IS ONLY SERIOUSLY JEOPARDIZED BY CITIZENS GROWING INDIFFERENT TO AN INEFFECTUAL GOVERNMENT, AND TURNING TO OTHER INSTITUTIONS OF SOCIETY TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR NEEDS.

In this innovative text, Richard Rose draws on a systematic analysis of the Global Welfare Database to explore the globalization of welfare over the last three decades, and to examine its impact on the health, education, and employment of billions of people across the world.

Forecasts of the death of democracy are often heard and the United Kingdom is on the death watch list. This book challenges such a gloomy view by carefully examining the health of the British body politic from Tony Blair's time in Downing Street to the challenges of Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic. It finds some parts are in good health, for example, elections are free and losers as well as winners accept the results, unlike the United States. Other parts show intermittent symptoms of ill health, such as Cabinet ministers avoiding accountability. There is also a chronic problem of managing the unity of the United Kingdom. None of the symptoms is fatal. The book identifies effective remedies for some symptoms, placebos that offer assurance without cure, and perennially popular prescriptions that are politically impossible. Being a healthy democracy does not promise effectiveness in dealing with economic problems, but a big majority of Britons do not want to trade the freedom that comes with democracy for the promises of undemocratic leaders. Richard Rose is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde, UK, and a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute Florence, Italy, and the Science Centre Berlin, Germany. He has been writing award-winning studies of British politics and democracy in comparative perspective for more than half a century.

1. How Democratic Elections Differ (Richard Rose) -- 2. How Referendums Differ From Each Other (Richard Rose) -- 3. Europe's Democratic Deficit and Democratic Surplus (Richard Rose) -- 4. A Paradigm Shift in European Referendums (Fernando Mendez) -- 5. When Institutions and Issues Change, Voting Changes (Ian McAllister and Richard Rose) -- 6. How Politicians Ought to Talk about Europe: Five Lessons from Experiments (Konstantin Vössing) -- 7. Comparing Voting in National Referendums on EU Issues (Alexia Katsanidou and Slaven Živković) -- 8. Britain: Still Searching for a Role in the World (Tim Oliver) -- 9 Forecasting the Economic Impact of Brexit (Paul Whiteley and Harold D. Clarke) -- 10. Policymaking in a Bounded Democracy (Richard Rose) -- 11. The Failure of Parliamentary Government (Richard Rose) -- 12. A New Prime Minister Meets Old Constraints (Richard Rose) -- 13. Beyond Brexit in a World of Interdependence (Richard Rose).

Intro -- Six intellectual companions -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Series Editors -- Contents -- List of Photographs -- Introduction -- Reflections From Experience -- A Memoir -- The Perspective of the Author -- Socialization of a Social Scientist -- Chapter 1: The Roots of a Political Scientist -- Growing Up in a Border City -- Learning in Spite of School -- Learning from the Library and from the Streets -- Chapter 2: Discovering Learning -- An Old-Fashioned University Education -- Exploring Europe -- My Education as a Reporter -- Chapter 3: The Education of Amateur Political Scientists -- Before the Transformation -- Manchester Made Me -- Committed Political Sociologists -- Chapter 4: The Professionalization of Political Science -- The Expansion of Universities Nationally -- Training Students: The Strathclyde Approach -- Institutionalizing Professional Links Across Europe -- Experiencing History Forwards -- Chapter 5: England Then and Now -- Learning About Class -- Class Parties? -- From England to Scotland -- Chapter 6: America Then and Now -- Free at Last -- Washington: A Small Town Now Global in Impact -- Chapter 7: Northern Ireland: Nothing Civil About Civil War -- A Warm Welcome From All Sides -- Guns Come Out -- Governing Without the Rule of Law -- What an Outsider Did -- Chapter 8: Fallout From the Berlin Wall -- The Reality Behind the Wall -- Free to Choose -- Russians and Russia -- What I Did -- Learning to Compare -- Chapter 9: Concepts Are More Than Words -- Naming What You Observe -- In the Field -- Conversing Through Questionnaires -- Chapter 10: Communicating What You Know -- Writing as a Discipline -- Form Follows Function -- What Would You Tell the President About Iraq in Three Minutes? -- Chapter 11: Public Policy and Political Science -- Disciplined Research and Undisciplined Problems.

"All forms of government require popular support, whether voluntary or involuntary, in order to survive. Following the collapse of the Soviet system, Russia's rulers took steps toward democracy, yet under Vladimir Putin Russia has become increasingly undemocratic. This book uses a unique source of evidence, 18 surveys of Russian public opinion from the first month of the new regime in 1992 up to 2009, to track the changing views of Russians. Clearly presented and sophisticated figures and tables show how political support has increased because of a sense of resignation that is stronger than the unstable benefits of exporting oil and gas. Whilst comparative analyses of surveys on other continents show that Russia's elite is not alone in being able to mobilize popular support for an undemocratic regime, Russia provides an outstanding caution that popular support can grow when governors reject democracy and create an undemocratic regime"--