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Constitutional Conventions in Westminster Systems
Author | : Brian Galligan,Scott Brenton |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2015-08-04 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781107100244 |
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Constitutional conventions precede law and make law making possible, but attempting to define them is politically risky yet increasingly necessary.
Comparing Westminster
Author | : R. A. W. Rhodes,John Wanna,Patrick Weller |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2009-08-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780191609817 |
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This book explores how the governmental elites in Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa understand their Westminster system. It examines in detail four interrelated features of Westminster systems. Firstly, the increasing centralisation in collective, responsible cabinet government. Second, the constitutional convention of ministerial and collective responsibility. Third, the role of a professional, non-partisan public service. And finally, parliament's relationship to the executive. The authors explain the changes that have occured in the Westminster model by analysing four traditions: royal prerogative, responsible government, constitutional bureaucracy, and representative government. They suggest that each tradition has a recurring dilemma, between centralisation and decentralisation, party government and ministerial responsibility, professionalisation and politicisation, and finally elitism and participation. They go on to argue that these dilemmas recur in four present-day debates: the growth of prime ministerial power, the decline in individual and collective ministerial accountability, politicisation of the public service, and executive dominance of the legislature. They conclude by identifying five meanings of - or narratives about - Westminster. Firstly, 'Westminster as heritage' - elite actors' shared governmental narrative understood as both precedents and nostalgia. Second, 'Westminster as political tool' - the expedient cloak worn by governments and politicians to defend themselves and criticise opponents. Third, 'Westminster as legitimising tradition' - providing legitimacy and a context for elite actions, serving as a point of reference to navigate this uncertain world. Fourth, 'Westminster as institutional category' - it remains a useful descriptor of a loose family of governments with shared origins and characteristics. Finally, 'Westminster as an effective political system' - it is a more effective and efficient political system than consensual parliamentary governments. Westminster is a flexible family of ideas that is useful for many purposes and survives, even thrives, because of its meaning in use to élite actors.
A Treatise Upon the Law Privileges Proceedings and Usage of Parliament
Author | : Thomas Erskine May |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1844 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : KBNL:KBNL03000114928 |
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The Veiled Sceptre
Author | : Anne Twomey |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 913 |
Release | : 2018-04-12 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781107056787 |
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The extension to other Realms of the reserve power to refuse a dissolution
Courts and Democracies in Asia
Author | : Po Jen Yap |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2017-09-28 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781107192621 |
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This book illuminates how law and politics interact in the judicial doctrines and explores how democracy sustains and is sustained by the exercise of judicial power.
The UK s Changing Democracy
Author | : Patrick Dunleavy, Alice Park, Ros Taylor |
Publsiher | : LSE Press |
Total Pages | : 521 |
Release | : 2018-11-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781909890466 |
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The UK’s Changing Democracy presents a uniquely democratic perspective on all aspects of UK politics, at the centre in Westminster and Whitehall, and in all the devolved nations. The 2016 referendum vote to leave the EU marked a turning point in the UK’s political system. In the previous two decades, the country had undergone a series of democratic reforms, during which it seemed to evolve into a more typical European liberal democracy. The establishment of a Supreme Court, adoption of the Human Rights Act, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish devolution, proportional electoral systems, executive mayors and the growth in multi-party competition all marked profound changes to the British political tradition. Brexit may now bring some of these developments to a juddering halt. The UK’s previous ‘exceptionalism’ from European patterns looks certain to continue indefinitely. ‘Taking back control’ of regulations, trade, immigration and much more is the biggest change in UK governance for half a century. It has already produced enduring crises for the party system, Parliament and the core executive, with uniquely contested governance over critical issues, and a rapidly changing political landscape. Other recent trends are no less fast-moving, such as the revival of two-party dominance in England, the re-creation of some mass membership parties and the disruptive challenges of social media. In this context, an in-depth assessment of the quality of the UK’s democracy is essential. Each of the 2018 Democratic Audit’s 37 short chapters starts with clear criteria for what democracy requires in that part of the nation’s political life and outlines key recent developments before a SWOT analysis (of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) crystallises the current situation. A small number of core issues are then explored in more depth. Set against the global rise of debased semi-democracies, the book’s approach returns our focus firmly to the big issues around the quality and sustainability of the UK’s liberal democracy.
The Good State
Author | : A. C. Grayling |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2020-02-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781786077196 |
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The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary – among them addressing the imbalance of power between government and Parliament, imposing fixed terms for MPs, introducing proportional representation and lowering the voting age to 16 (the age at which you can marry, gamble, join the army and must pay taxes if you work) – to ensure the intentions of such a constitution could not be subverted or ignored. As democracies around the world show signs of decay, the issue of what makes a good state, one that is democratic in the fullest sense of the word, could not be more important. To take just one example: by the simplest of measures, neither Britain nor the United States can claim to be truly democratic. The most basic tenet of democracy is that no voice be louder than any other. Yet in our ‘first past the post’ electoral systems a voter supporting a losing candidate is unrepresented, his or her voice unequal to one supporting a winning candidate, who frequently does not gain a majority of the votes cast. This is just one of a number of problems, all of them showing that democratic reform is a necessity in our contemporary world.
Constitutional Conventions and the Headship of State Australian Experience
Author | : Donald Markwell |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1925501159 |
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