One year on: The decline and fall of gordon brown

British Politics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 490-510

  Kettell, Steven ^a   Kerr, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gordon brown; Modernality; New labour; Westminsterism

Indexed keywords

EID: 65449161146     PISSN: 1746918X     EISSN: 17469198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/bp.2008.26     Document Type: Article

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