Includes bibliographical references (p. [368]-389) and index.
Contents
pt. 1. Starting out -- The state -- Political understanding -- pt. 2. Understanding the constraints on state power : the case of Britain since 1979 -- The centrality of judgment -- The modern representative democratic republic -- Crisis, routine and political intelligibility -- Explaining the failings of the modern republic : Platonism versus sociology -- pt. 3. Starting again -- Doing better : fantasy and judgment.