John Major's style of government, Bill Jones; reform of the House of Commons, Phillip Norton; Town Hall versus Whitehall, Geoff Lee; the politics of the British media, Moyra Grant; reforming the electoral system, Bill Jones; lobbying - a need to regulate?, Sebastian Berry; The Unknown Government - the conservative quangocracy, Bill Jones; the debate about the welfare state, Paul Wilding; Britain and the European community, Neill Nugent; Northern Ireland, Peter Byrd; the education issue - the search for radical solutions to raise standards, Lynton Robins; is ideology dead?, Bill Jones; the politics of health, Bruce Wood; the politics of housing policy, Geoff Lee; privatisation, Geoff Lee; environmental policy - reality or rhetoric?, Geoff Lee; the 1992 general election - the end of psephology?, Frank Conley; government and poverty in the 1980s - an exercise in the management of a political issue, Paul Wilding; crime and punishment, Bill Jones; management and the civil service, Andrew Gray and Bill Jenkins.