Offshore Island Politics is a fascinating study of the constitutional and political development of the Isle of Man. The book analyses three broad aspects of twentieth-century political development: constitutional progress towards self-government, elections and public policy and the changing role of the state in Manx society. One of the most important political changes the study addresses is the gradual ascendancy of the directly elected House of Keys in Manx politics. Offshore Island Politics concludes with a look at the final two decades of the century, a period of population growth and unprecedented prosperity for the small offshore island. David Kermode was born in Kirk Michael in the Isle of Man in 1942. After gaining a first degree in economics, in 1969 he was awarded a PhD by Sheffield University for a study of the constitutional relationship between the Island and the United Kingdom. He is the author of Devolution at Work: A Case Study of the Isle of Man (Saxon House, Farnborough, 1979), several journal articles and conference papers on Manx politics, and "Constitutuional Development and Public Policy 1900-79" in John Belchem (ed.), A New History of the Isle of Man: The Modern Period 1830-1999 (Liverpool University Press, 2000). He is currently Emeritus Professor in Political Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. Used Book in Good Condition