AI.A.Gromyko. POLITICAL MODERNISATION OF BRITAIN: FROM WESTMINSTER TO PLURAL MODEL OF DEMOCRACY. Reports of the Institute of Europe № 158. Moscow 2005.

ANNOTATION

At the centre of the monograph - the subject of the United Kingdom transition from Westminster to Plural model of democracy. The author analyses main trends in development of the British party system, modernisation of main political parties and their functions, ideological modernisation. The key element of this process -political modernisation, i.e. ability of a developed state's political system to adapt to demands of the post-industrial society on the basis of political openness and plurality.