Constitution-Making and the Labour Party - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constitution-Making and the Labour Party write by M. Evans. This book was released on 2003-10-15. Constitution-Making and the Labour Party available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since coming to power in 1997 the Labour government 's programme of constitutional reform represents an historic challenge to both British constitutional doctrine and Labour Party orthodoxy. Mark Evans examines the nature and extent of this challenge and argues that the New Constitutionalism is a key element of a policy agenda that in its most crucial aspects reflects the continuing transformation of the British industrial-welfare state into a competition state. Constitution-Making and the Labour Party analyzes key areas of reform under the Blair government from the perspective of Labour Party history and contemporary policy analysis.
The Labour Party and Constitutional Reform
The Labour Party and Constitutional Reform - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Labour Party and Constitutional Reform write by Peter Dorey. This book was released on 2008-06-17. The Labour Party and Constitutional Reform available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the Labour Party's approach to constitutional reforms in historical context, and how these have been pursued more to 'modernize' political institutions, rather that radically transform them. Dorey explains the reasons for this constitutional conservatism, and the debates which specific reform proposals have prompted in the Party.
Reinventing Britain
Reinventing Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reinventing Britain write by Andrew McDonald. This book was released on 2007-10-30. Reinventing Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "First [originally] published in Great Britain in 2007 by Politico's Publishing ..."--Title page verso.
The Coalition and the Constitution
The Coalition and the Constitution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Coalition and the Constitution write by Vernon Bogdanor. This book was released on 2011-03-25. The Coalition and the Constitution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. `England', Benjamin Disraeli famously said, `does not love coalitions'. But 2010 saw the first peace-time coalition in Britain since the 1930s. The coalition, moreover, may well not be an aberration. For there are signs that, with the rise in strength of third parties, hung parliaments are more likely to recur than in the past. Perhaps, therefore, the era of single-party majority government, to which we have become accustomed since 1945, is coming to an end. But is the British constitution equipped to deal with coalition? Are alterations in the procedures of parliament or government needed to cope with it? The inter-party agreement between the coalition partners proposes a wide ranging series of constitutional reforms, the most important of which are fixed-term parliaments and a referendum on the alternative vote electoral system, to be held in May 2011. The coalition is also proposing measures to reduce the size of the House of Commons, to directly elect the House of Lords and to strengthen localism. These reforms, if implemented, could permanently alter the way we are governed. This book analyses the significance of coalition government for Britain and of the momentous constitutional reforms which the coalition is proposing. In doing so it seeks to penetrate the cloud of polemic and partisanship to provide an objective analysis for the informed citizen.
Building New Labour
Building New Labour - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building New Labour write by M. Russell. This book was released on 2005-03-21. Building New Labour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'New' Labour was defined in part by wide-ranging reforms to the party's internal democracy. These included changes to how candidates and leaders are selected, changes to policy making processes, and a programme of 'quotas' that transformed women's representation in the party. In the first book to analyse all these reforms in depth Meg Russell asks what motivated them, to what extent they were driven by leaders or members, and what they can teach us both about party organisational change and the nature of power relations in the Labour Party today.
