Alastair Bruton's provocative and groundbreaking book analyses Western Europe's revolution in progress. For decades, national governments have been redistributing their power upwards to Brussels and, quite independently, downwards to regional governments. A new political system is developing in which power is more evenly shared among the European Union, national and regional governments. Europe's new three-part structure could put an end to the political corruption and subsequent disenchantment of voters now undermining our democracies. But because it threatens the established power of national governments and bureaucracies, there is a real danger that its potential may be wasted.A Revolution in Progress puts contemporary British politics firmly in a European perspective. Every other major Western European country has set up regional governments, and now Britain must do the same, throwing its weight into the battle to make the hitherto hopelessly undemocratic EU properly accountable to voters. Above all, A Revolution in Progress argues that Britain's future lies in very much closer links with the rest of Europe. Read Less