Parliamentary reform at Westminster
Title | Parliamentary reform at Westminster PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandra Kelso |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2013-07-19 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1847797016 |
The Labour government elected in 1997 pledged to reform the Westminster parliament by modernising the House of Commons and removing the hereditary peers from the House of Lords. Events have consequently demonstrated the deep controversy that accompanies such attempts at institutional reconfiguration, and have highlighted the shifting fault lines in executive-legislative relations in the UK, as well as the deep complexities surrounding British constitutional politics. The story of parliamentary reform is about the nature of the British political system, about how the government seeks to expand its control over parliament, and about how parliament discharges its duty to scrutinise the executive and hold it to account. This book, available in paperback for the first time, charts the course of Westminster reform since 1997, but does so by placing it in the context of parliamentary reform pursued in the past, and thus adopts a historical perspective which lends it considerable analytical value. Significantly, the book examines parliamentary reform through the lens of institutional theory, in order not only to describe reform but also to interpret and explain it. It also draws on extensive interviews conducted with MPs and peers involved in the reform of parliament since 1997, thus offering a unique insight into how these political actors perceived the reform process in which they played a part. Parliamentary reform at Westminster, now available in paperback, provides a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the trajectory and outcome of the reform of parliament, along with an incisive interpretation of the implications for our understanding of British politics.
The Politics of Parliamentary Procedure
Title | The Politics of Parliamentary Procedure PDF eBook |
Author | Kari Palonen |
Publisher | Verlag Barbara Budrich |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2016-10-24 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3847410784 |
Currently, parliament as a political institution does not enjoy the best reputation. This book aims to recover less known political resources of the parliamentary mode of proceeding. The parliamentary procedure relies on regulating debates in a fair way and on constructing opposed perspectives on the agenda items. The British House of Commons provides the closest historical approximation for the parliamentary ideal type of politics. This book deals with the formation and conceptual change in the Westminster procedure, based on the way they are interpreted in the tracts on procedure. The tracts illustrate the changing parliamentary self-understanding from the 1570s to the present and the growing political role of procedural disputes. The parliamentary style of politics, as discussed in the tracts, can be divided into two genres: the politics of agenda-setting and the politics of debate. The book analyses their formation and overall conceptual change as well as the procedural responses to the increasingly scarce parliamentary time from the period after the 1832 parliamentary reform. It insists that in spite of claims on urgency and on government’s leadership the procedural resources of the House of Commons contribute to maintaining the debate-centred parliamentary style of politics.
Reform in Parliament. Westminster Meeting. From the Traveller Evening Newspaper of Monday, February 18, 1822
Title | Reform in Parliament. Westminster Meeting. From the Traveller Evening Newspaper of Monday, February 18, 1822 PDF eBook |
Author | Electors (WESTMINSTER) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 18 |
Release | 1822 |
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Reform in Parliament. Proceedings of the Electors of ... Westminster, including correct reports of the speeches delivered at a public meeting held in New Palace-Yard, on Friday, 9th November, 1810, for the purpose of obtaining a reform in the representation of the people in parliament
Title | Reform in Parliament. Proceedings of the Electors of ... Westminster, including correct reports of the speeches delivered at a public meeting held in New Palace-Yard, on Friday, 9th November, 1810, for the purpose of obtaining a reform in the representation of the people in parliament PDF eBook |
Author | Electors (WESTMINSTER) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1810 |
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Reform of Parliament. Westminster Election. 1819. At a general ... meeting of the electors of Westminster, convened by public advertisement, “on Tuesday, the 9th day of February, 1819,” etc. [A report of the meeting.]
Title | Reform of Parliament. Westminster Election. 1819. At a general ... meeting of the electors of Westminster, convened by public advertisement, “on Tuesday, the 9th day of February, 1819,” etc. [A report of the meeting.] PDF eBook |
Author | Electors (WESTMINSTER) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 1819 |
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Parliamentary Reform at Westminster
Title | Parliamentary Reform at Westminster PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandra Kelso |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004 |
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To the Electors of Westminster
Title | To the Electors of Westminster PDF eBook |
Author | Electors of Westminster |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1 |
Release | 1827 |
Genre | Elections |
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