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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2013
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6 For my interpretation of all this see my Britain Since 1918: The Strange Career of British Democracy, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2008, chapter 2.
7 There is an excellent account of this episode in McLean: see Iain McLean, What's Wrong with the British Constitution?, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 100–25.
8 Anthony King, The British Constitution, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 351 and 47.
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17 More than half, if you include the democratization of Spain, Portugal and Greece as well as that of the 12 new member states in East and Central Europe.
