It would be differcult to think of any political party whose internal problems have been so publicly scrutinised as have those of the Labour Party in recent years. The Politics of the Labour Party provides simply the most authoritative analysis of the longer-term tensions which lie behind the immediacy of day-to-day events.

1. The Labour Party and the Electorate 2. Changing Styles of Labour Leadership 3. The Labour Left in Parliament: Maintenance, Erosion and Renewal 4. Still the Workers' Party? Changing Social Trends in Elite Recruitment and Electoral Support 5. The Decline of Labour's Local Party Membership and Electoral Base, 1945-1979 6. The Labour Party and the Geography of Inequality: A Puzzle 7. The Peculiar Relationship: The Party and the Unions 8. Power in the Labour Party: The Issue of 'Intra-Party Democracy' 9. Representation in the Labour Party