The Author
David McKay is Professor of Government at the University of Essex. He is the author of numerous books and articles on American and comparative politics, most recently Designing Europe: Comparative Lessons from the Federal Experience (2001, winner of the Political Studies Association WJM MacKenzie prize for the best book published in 2001). He is the co-author of The New British Politics (2004). David McKay has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Cornell and California.