The Coalition and the Constitution
Autor Vernon Bogdanoren Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 mar 2011
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781849461580
ISBN-10: 1849461589
Pagini: 162
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Hart Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1849461589
Pagini: 162
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Hart Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Analyses the significance of coalition government for Britain and of the constitutional reforms which the coalition is proposing.Seeks to penetrate the cloud of polemic and partisanship to provide an objective analysis for the informed citizen.Written by a distinguished expert in the field.
Notă biografică
Vernon Bogdanor was, until 2010, Professor of Government at Oxford University. He is now a Research Professor at King's College, London, Gresham Professor of Law, a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.
Cuprins
1. The General Election of 2010 and the Formation of the Coalition I . Outcome of the Election II . A Hung Parliament III . A Hung Parliament and the Constitution 2. Formation of the Coalition I . The Politics of Coalition Formation II . The Electoral Geography of Coalition Formation 3. Governing with a Coalition I . The Structure of the Coalition II . Agreements to Differ III . The Coalition and the Civil Service I V. Types of Coalition 4. 'England Does Not Love Coalitions' I . Coalitions in Peacetime II . Electoral Pacts III . Grass-Roots Hostility to Coalitions 5. Electoral Reform and the Alternative Vote I . Reducing the Number of MPs II . More Frequent Boundary Reviews III . The Referendum on the Alternative Vote I V. The Working of the Alternative Vote V. Some Possible Consequences of the Alternative Vote 6. Fixed-Term Parliaments I . Experience of Fixed-Term Parliaments II . Thresholds for Dissolution III . The Constructive Vote of No Confidence I V. Effects of the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act 7. A New World? Multi-Party Politics and Coalition Government I . A Series of Hung Parliaments? II . Consequences of Hung Parliaments III . A Directly Elected Second Chamber I V. A Constitution for a Post-Bureaucratic Age
Recenzii
Bogdanor's short and readable critique of proposals such as the alternative vote and fixed-term parliaments is to the high standard one has come to expect from him.
This is a book, which one hopes will be published in paperback so that many students of British politics can have it close at hand. It offers basic information about elections and coalitions to which one will want to turn to, time and again.
... this book offers many interesting insights into the workings of the British constitution, how far the negotiations to create the coalition conform to expected constitutional norms, and how far the government has altered or seeks to alter the constitution.
Professor Bogdanor is an expert in constitutional history so it is no surprise to find that one of the strengths of the book is the depth of its historical comparisons.
[Vernon Bogdanor] is undoubtedly a considerable authority on constitutions generally and the British one in particular...this is probably the best short introduction in the bookshops to our current constitutional debates.
Vernon Bogdanor is the leading academic authority on the strange jumble of customs, laws and myths known as the British constitution. To that role he brings formidable learning, a relentless appetite for sniffing out self-serving humbug and a quiet, but insistent radicalism. He deploys all of these to startling effect in this short book. In form it is an analytical study of the coalition's impact on the constitution; in fact, it is the literary equivalent of a mortar shell fired at the Cameron-Clegg command centre.
Picking his way delicately through this tangled web of constitutional traditions, unspoken arrangements, tacit agreements, political alliances, grudges and festering feuds is constitutional expert Professor Vernon Bogdanor. And there is no more skilled disentangle of a political cat's cradle than Bogdanor. His latest book sheds much-needed light, and a historical perspective, on the potential implications of the UK's first peace-time coalition since the 1930s.
This book tells students of British politics all that they need to know about the constitutional implications of the coalition government formed after the 2010 general election.
The history, the politics and the future of coalition government, and the implications of AV and the rest of the programme for constitutional reform, are analysed with clarity and insight by Vernon Bogdanor in his indispensable new book, The Coalition and the Constitution
Bogdanor's excellent study focuses largely on the constitutional implications of the coalition government.
.[Vernon Bogdanor's] political writings are admirably objective and scholarly, and a book he has just published, The Coalition and the Constitution, is no exception.
The country faces a string of tinkering changes. The unintended consequences will be many. This shrewd, short book explains why.
This is a book, which one hopes will be published in paperback so that many students of British politics can have it close at hand. It offers basic information about elections and coalitions to which one will want to turn to, time and again.
... this book offers many interesting insights into the workings of the British constitution, how far the negotiations to create the coalition conform to expected constitutional norms, and how far the government has altered or seeks to alter the constitution.
Professor Bogdanor is an expert in constitutional history so it is no surprise to find that one of the strengths of the book is the depth of its historical comparisons.
[Vernon Bogdanor] is undoubtedly a considerable authority on constitutions generally and the British one in particular...this is probably the best short introduction in the bookshops to our current constitutional debates.
Vernon Bogdanor is the leading academic authority on the strange jumble of customs, laws and myths known as the British constitution. To that role he brings formidable learning, a relentless appetite for sniffing out self-serving humbug and a quiet, but insistent radicalism. He deploys all of these to startling effect in this short book. In form it is an analytical study of the coalition's impact on the constitution; in fact, it is the literary equivalent of a mortar shell fired at the Cameron-Clegg command centre.
Picking his way delicately through this tangled web of constitutional traditions, unspoken arrangements, tacit agreements, political alliances, grudges and festering feuds is constitutional expert Professor Vernon Bogdanor. And there is no more skilled disentangle of a political cat's cradle than Bogdanor. His latest book sheds much-needed light, and a historical perspective, on the potential implications of the UK's first peace-time coalition since the 1930s.
This book tells students of British politics all that they need to know about the constitutional implications of the coalition government formed after the 2010 general election.
The history, the politics and the future of coalition government, and the implications of AV and the rest of the programme for constitutional reform, are analysed with clarity and insight by Vernon Bogdanor in his indispensable new book, The Coalition and the Constitution
Bogdanor's excellent study focuses largely on the constitutional implications of the coalition government.
.[Vernon Bogdanor's] political writings are admirably objective and scholarly, and a book he has just published, The Coalition and the Constitution, is no exception.
The country faces a string of tinkering changes. The unintended consequences will be many. This shrewd, short book explains why.
Descriere
This book analyses the significance of coalition government for Britain and of the momentous constitutional reforms which the coalition is proposing.