In 21st century Britain, a 'perfect storm' seems to have engulfed many of its institutions. This book is the first wholesale consideration of the crisis of legitimacy that has taken root in Britain's key institutions and explores the crisis across them to determine if a set of shared underlying pathologies exist to create this collective crisis.

Sadiya Akram, University of Canberra, Australia Paul Cairney, University of Stirling, UK Patrick Diamond University of Manchester, UK Charlie Dannreuther University of Leeds, UK Daniel Fitzpatrick University of Manchester, UK David JudgeUniversity of Strathclyde, UK Simon Lightfoot, University of Leeds, UK David Marsh University of Canberra, UK Brendan McCaffrie, University of Canberra, UK Ralph Negrine, University of Sheffield, UK Layla Skinns, University of Sheffield, UK Helen Thompson, University of Cambridge, UK Adam White, University of York, UK