Democracy in Britain includes a rich and varied selection of key writings, from the debates around Britain's representative and democratic institutions, from constitutional commentary and diaries to poetry and fiction; from Locke and Burke to Dryden and Auden; and from Magna Carta to Spycatcher.

• Provides the best resource available for the understanding and study of Britain's system of representative democracy
• The editors have made efforts throughout to make the material selected accessible to non-specialists
• Rather than following one side of the debate on British democracy, this presents the reader with both sides of the argument
• Sponsored by the British Council, the book will receive special advertising and promotion

Jack Lively is an Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Warwick. Among his previous publications is Democracy (1970), also published by Blackwell.

Adam Lively is the author of four novels, most recently Sing the Body Electric (1993), and a pamphlet on constitutional reform, Parliament: The Great British Democracy Swindle (1990). He is currently working on a study of race and the imagination.