“…In particular, his classic book, Territory and Power in the United Kingdom, engages with the big intellectual themes of the organisation of local and territorial politics, the role of political parties and the prominence of economic policy and foreign affairs, to which he directed questions about the operation of statecraft, the salience of elite interests, the development of territorial identity and the contradictions of political power. By placing nation states in their historical context, examining the constraints and limitations on central decision makers and the scope for political choice and autonomy, he belongs to the institutional political science tradition that now dominates the study of comparative politics and policy (Ware, 1987: 75;Bradbury, 2006).…”