The House Of Lords And Contemporary Politics

Author : Meg Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199671567
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary House of Lords written by Meg Russell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painting a detailed portrait of the House of Lords since reform removed most hereditary members in 1999, this book demonstrates the chamber's newly diverse membership and substantial policy impact in British politics. It also places the Lords in a comparative context, asks if it can be considered 'legitimate', and examines the likelihood of reform.

Author : Peter Alexander Bromhead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of Lords and contemporary politics, 1911-1957 written by Peter Alexander Bromhead and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Bromhead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of Lords and Contemporary Politics written by Peter Bromhead and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald Shell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of Lords written by Donald Shell and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over recent years the House of Lords has become more prominent in the business of government, with Mrs. Thatcher suffering some of her worst parliamentary setbacks at the hands of peers. This full-length study of the House analyzes its contemporary role in British politics, its procedures and membership, and considers various proposals for reform. The book's comprehensiveness will prove invaluable to those seeking a clearer understanding of the operation and make-up of Britain's Upper Chamber. Contents: 1 The House of Lords and Constitutional Development; 2 Membership of the House; 3 The Role of Political Parties in the House; 4 The Organization and Procedure of the House; 5 The Legislative Work of the House; 6 The Treatment of Government Legislation, 1979-87; 7 The Deliberative Work of the House; 8 Select Committees and Secondary Legislation; 9 What Role for the Lords?; Appendix A: Expenses Payments for Peers and Remuneration for Office Holders in the House of Lords; Appendix B: Peerages Disclaimed, 1963-87; Appendix C: Debates and Select Committee Reports on Televising the House of Lords; Principal Sources; Bibliography; Index R

Author : Meg Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191751776
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary House of Lords written by Meg Russell and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painting a detailed portrait of the House of Lords since reform removed most hereditary members in 1999, this book demonstrates the chamber's newly diverse membership and substantial policy impact in British politics. It also places the Lords in a comparative context, asks if it can be considered 'legitimate' and examines the likelihood of reform.

Author : Ishion Hutchinson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374714541
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House of Lords and Commons written by Ishion Hutchinson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning collection that traverses the borders of culture and time, from the 2011 winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award In House of Lords and Commons, the revelatory and vital new collection of poems from the winner of the 2013 Whiting Writers’ Award in poetry, Ishion Hutchinson returns to the difficult beauty of the Jamaican landscape with remarkable lyric precision. Here, the poet holds his world in full focus but at an astonishing angle: from the violence of the seventeenth-century English Civil War as refracted through a mythic sea wanderer, right down to the dark interior of love. These poems arrange the contemporary continuum of home and abroad into a wonderment of cracked narrative sequences and tumultuous personae. With ears tuned to the vernacular, the collection vividly binds us to what is terrifying about happiness, loss, and the lure of the sea. House of Lords and Commons testifies to the particular courage it takes to wade unsettled, uncertain, and unfettered in the wake of our shared human experience.

Author : Philip Norton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137320958
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parliament in British Politics written by Philip Norton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised new edition includes expanded coverage of Parliament's relationship with the courts, devolved assemblies and the European Union. Distinctively, the book goes beyond the usual focus of Parliament-Government relations to encompass policy-makers beyond Whitehall and Parliament's broader relationship with citizens.

Author : Patrick Dunleavy
Publisher : LSE Press
ISBN 13 : 1909890464
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The UK's Changing Democracy written by Patrick Dunleavy and published by LSE Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ruth Paley
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843835769
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Honour, Interest & Power written by Ruth Paley and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Condemned as 'useless and dangerous', the House of Lords was abolished in the revolution of 1649, shortly after the execution of the King. When it was reinstated, along with the monarchy, as part of the Restoration of 1660, the House entered into one of the most turbulent and dramatic periods in its history. Over the next half century or more, the Lords were the stage on which some of the critical confrontations in English and British constitutional and political history were played out: the battles over the exclusion from the throne of the later James II; the key debates over the 'abdication' of William III; the many struggles over the Act of Union with Scotland. This highly illustrated book presents the first results from the research undertaken by the History of Parliament Trust on the peers and bishops between the Restoration and the accession of George I. It shows them as politicians at Westminster, engaging with the central arguments of the day, but also using Parliament to pursue their own projects; as members of an elite intensely conscious of their status and determined to defend their honour against commoners, Irish peers and each other; as a class apart, always active in devising new schemes - successful and unsuccessful - to increase their wealth and 'interest'; and as local grandees, to whom local society looked for leadership and protection. From the proud Duke of Somerset to the beggarly Lord Mohun, from the devious Earl of Oxford to the disgruntled Lord Lucas, the material here presents an initial impression of the nature of the Restoration House of Lords and the men who formed it, showing them in their best moments, when they vigorously defended the law and the constitution, and in their worst, as they obsessively concerned themselves with honour and precedence and indefatigably pursued private interests. Edited by Ruth Paley and Paul Seaward, with Beverly Adams, Robin Eagles, Stuart Handley and Charles Littleton

Author : Emma Crewe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000183297
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of Commons written by Emma Crewe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House of Commons is one of Britain's mysterious institutions: constantly in the news yet always opaque. In this ground-breaking anthropological study of the world’s most famous parliament, Emma Crewe reveals the hidden mechanisms of parliamentary democracy.Examining the work of Members of Parliament – including neglected areas such as constituencies and committees – this book provides unique insights into the actual lives and working relationships of parliamentarians. 'Why do the public loathe politicians but often love their own MP?' the author asks. The antagonistic façade of politics irritates the public who tend to be unaware that, backstage, democracy relies on MPs consulting, compromising and cooperating across political parties far more than is publicly admitted. As the book shows, this is only one of myriad contradictions in the labyrinths of power. Based on unprecedented access and two years of interviews and research in the Palace of Westminster and MPs’ constituencies, The House of Commons: An Anthropology of MPs at Work challenges the existing scholarship on political institutions and party politics. Moving beyond the narrow confines of rational choice theory and new institutionalism, Emma Crewe presents a radical alternative to the study of British politics by demonstrating that all of its processes hinge on culture, ritual and social relations. A must-read for anyone interested in political anthropology, politics, or the Westminster model.