Politics in England

Richard Rose’s Politics in England was not just a textbook. Its origins mark it out from the range of other texts that students of British politics could look to in the mid-1960s, most of which adopted a legal and/or historical approach to the study of British politics. Politics in England was part of a series of books—the ‘Little, Brown’ series—that reflected the vision of comparative politics associated with a ‘structural-functional’ approach that gained greatest popularity after the late 1950s, and above all with the ideas and active promotion of Gabriel Almond who, along with Lucien Pye, edited the series each volume with the simple title Politics in ….