{"id":19738,"date":"2016-05-17T07:05:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T06:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19738"},"modified":"2016-05-17T07:05:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T06:05:59","slug":"what-are-the-differences-between-american-and-british-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19738","title":{"rendered":"What are the differences between American and British politics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, I spent almost four hours in discussion &#8211; much of it recorded &#8211; with an American academic visiting London: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdx.edu\/usp\/profile\/meet-professor-gerald-sussman\">Professor Gerald Sussman<\/a>. He is the author of six books and is currently researching for a seventh.<\/p>\n<p>As he explained in an introductory e-mail:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a professor of international politics at Portland State University in the USA. My research and writing has focused on electoral politics, communications, media, and interest groups. Your website has been a source of many nuggets of useful information.<\/p>\n<p>As part of a new book project comparing UK and US electoral systems, I&#8217;ll be meeting with journalists, academics, activists, politicians, and political professionals in London to discuss ideas about the British campaign process, how it&#8217;s been transformed and influenced by economic and cultural forces.<\/p>\n<p>I would very much like to talk with you on this subject, especially on how you see the electoral process having changed over time.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We had a fascinating discussion in which Gerry asked me lots of questions about British politics and we shared our perspectives on the current political scene in the United States. Throughout the interview, I drew regularly on information in my essay on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/USvsUK.html\">&#8220;Contrasts Between The American And British Political Systems&#8221;\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0which is one of the most visited of the 200 or so sections on my web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, I spent almost four hours in discussion &#8211; much of it recorded &#8211; with an American academic visiting London: Professor Gerald Sussman. He is the author of six books and is currently researching for a seventh. As he explained in an introductory e-mail: &#8220;I&#8217;m a professor of international politics at Portland State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs","category-british-current-affairs","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19741,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19738\/revisions\/19741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}