''The Governance of Britain'' was a

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issued by the

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in 2007. The Green Paper looked at issues of constitutional reform including

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reform and limiting the powers of the executive. Its last section on "Citizenship and National identity" was criticized by David Beetham, who expressed "astonishment that so much effort is felt to be necessary chasing a will of the wisp called Britishness" and found its language "prescriptive, even hortatory". It is not to be confused with Harold Wilson's book ''The Governance of Britain'', 1976.Weidenfeld and Nicolson and Michael Joseph.

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The Governance of Britain
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