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Author : Brian Galligan,Scott Brenton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107100244
Constitutional conventions precede law and make law making possible, but attempting to define them is politically risky yet increasingly necessary.
Author : R. A. W. Rhodes,John Wanna,Patrick Weller
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191609817
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.
Author : Thomas Erskine May
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000114928
Author : Anne Twomey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 913 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107056787
The extension to other Realms of the reserve power to refuse a dissolution
Author : Po Jen Yap
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107192621
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.
Author : Matthew SR Palmer,Dean R Knight
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781849469050
This book examines New Zealand's constitution, through the lens of constitutional realism. It looks at the practices, habits, conventions and norms of constitutional life. It focuses on the structures, processes and culture that govern the exercise of public power – a perspective that is necessary to explore and account for a lived, rather than textual, constitution. New Zealand's constitution is unique. One of three remaining unwritten democratic constitutions in the world, it is characterised by a charming set of anachronistic contrasts. “Unwritten”, but much found in various written sources. Built on a network of Westminster constitutional conventions but generously tailored to local conditions. Proudly independent, yet perhaps a purer Westminster model than its British parent. Flexible and vulnerable, while oddly enduring. It looks to the centralised authority that comes with a strong executive, strict parliamentary sovereignty, and a unitary state. However, its populace insists on egalitarian values and representative democracy, with elections fiercely conducted nowadays under a system of proportional representation. The interests of indigenous Maori are protected largely through democratic majority rule. A reputation for upholding the rule of law, yet few institutional safeguards to ensure compliance.
Author : Laszlo Kontler,Mark Somos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004353671
A much-needed historical perspective in the highly relevant contemporary debates around these two notions by contextualising their discussion from ancient Greece to Soviet Russia.
Author : Donald Markwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1925501159
Author : Patrick Dunleavy, Alice Park, Ros Taylor
Publisher : LSE Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781909890466
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.
Author : Walter Bagehot
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : History
ISBN : NYPL:33433081652806
There is a great difficulty in the way of a writer who attempts to sketch a living Constitution-a Constitution that is in actual work and power. The difficulty is that the object is in constant change. An historical writer does not feel this difficulty: he deals only with the past; he can say definitely, the Constitution worked in such and such a manner in the year at which he begins, and in a manner in such and such respects different in the year at which he ends; he begins with a definite point of time and ends with one also. But a contemporary writer who tries to paint what is before him is puzzled and a perplexed: what he sees is changing daily. He must paint it as it stood at some one time, or else he will be putting side by side in his representations things which never were contemporaneous in reality.
Author : Cris Shore,David V. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108496469
The Crown is the bedrock of Westminster-style democracies, yet its meanings, powers and effects are opaque and little understood.
Author : Bulmer, W.
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781529200669
Constitutional scholar Elliot Bulmer considers what Britain might learn from Westminster-derived constitutions around the world. Exploring the principles of Westminster Model constitutions and their impact on democracy, human rights and good government, this book builds to a bold re-imagining of the United Kingdom’s future written framework.
Author : Peter Aucoin,Lori Beth Turnbull,Mark D. Jarvis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN : 1552394638
This timely book examines recent history and ongoing controversies as it makes the case for restoring power to where it belongs - with the people's elected representatives in Parliament.
Author : A. C. Grayling
Publisher : Oneworld Publications
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1786079321
As democracy shows signs of decay, how do we not only arrest its decline but build something better – a state which is democratic in the fullest sense? 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.
Author : David Hamer
Publisher : Belconnen ACT : University of Canberra
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Australia
ISBN : NYPL:33433050660400
