Politics without DemocracyPolitics Without Democracy provides an entertaining and highly original view of how Britain made a peaceful transition to representative democracy a change characterized in other countries by convulsive and bloody civil strife. Professor Bentley takes the reader into the minds of the politicians of the day, men such as Wellington, Peel, Disraeli, Salisbury and Asquith, as they and their colleagues did their best to control, manipulate (and often