Politics and the constitution : essays on British government

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Politics and the constitution : essays on British government

Vernon Bogdanor

Dartmouth, c1996

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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A constitution forms the basis of the legal order of the state, but it is also a "power-map" tracing the normative relationships between the government and citizen. This work presents a collection of essays which offers a political scientist's view of the British constitution. They seek to show why the constitution, having departed from the political agenda in the 1920s, reappeared in the 1970s and has remained part of the agenda despite all the efforts of politicaians to exorcise it.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 The constitution as politics: the political constitution
  • Mrs Thatcher and the constitution
  • ministers, civil servants and the constitution. Part 2 Conservative hegemony and a divided opposition: the ghost of Peel and the legacy of Disraeli - the selection of the conservative party leader
  • the 1992 general election and the British party system
  • lessons of history - core and periphery in British electoral behaviour 1910-1992
  • electoral pacts in Britain since 1880. Part 3 The constitution under strain: Britain and European Union
  • local government and the constitution
  • the English constitution and devolution
  • devolution - the constitutional problems
  • the referendum
  • the 40 per cent rule
  • the problem of the upper house.

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