Michael Williams. Crisis and Consensus in British Politics: From Bagehot to Blair. recently made known York: Palgrave. 2000. Pp. x 231 ISBN 0-312-23274-8
Michael Williams has undertaken to "chart the change between crisis and consensus" in twentieth-century British politics against the backdrop of its relative economic decline (p ix). The first five chapters provide a contemplate of British politics from the late nineteenth centenary with particular reference to cross-party political patterns of crisis replication The first crisis emerged in the late nineteenth-century as a