Die Aufsätze im vorliegenden Sammelband gehen überwiegend zurück auf Beiträge der Verfasser zur Jahrestagung 1996 des oben genannten Arbeitskreises. Das Leitmotiv der "Political Reform" mit seiner bis in die Anfänge des 19. Jahrhunderts zurückreichenden programmatischen Tradition wird in diesen Aufsätzen auf seinen Bedeutungswandel und Aspekte seiner Kontinuität als politischer topos untersucht. Inhalt: Introduction: Peter Catterall: A Question of Balances? The Debates about the British Constitution in the Twentieth Century (1-33); Wolfram Kaiser: The Decline and Rise of Radicalism: The Political Parties and Reform, 1886-1996 (35-66). I. The Unelected Institutions: Andrew Adonis: Lords and Monarchy in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain: Democracy and the unelected state (67-79); André Kaiser: House of Lords and Monarchy: British majoritarian democracy and the current reform debate on its pre-democratic institutions (81-109). II. Women in Society and Politics: Ulrike Jordan / Jutta Schwarzkopf: Reform Politics, Gender Relations and Women's Social Role in Circum-1900 Britain (111-129); Angela Schwarz: "They cannot choose but to be women." Stereotypes of Femininity and Ideals of Womanliness in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain (131-150); Dagmar Freist: Reform of the Mind - Reform of the Body Politic: Gender Relations and Reform Policies in late Twentieth-Century Britain (151-167). III. Nationality Conflicts and Territorial Government: Elfie Rembold: "Home Rule all round": Experiments in Regionalising Great Britain, 1886-1914 (169-192); James Mitchell: Conceptual Lenses and Territorial Government in Britain (193-226); Brian Girvin: The British State and Northern Ireland: Can the National Question be Reformed? (227-256).