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Alexandra Kelso - Parliamentary Reform at Westminster - 9780719076756 - V9780719076756
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Parliamentary Reform at Westminster

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Description for Parliamentary Reform at Westminster Hardback. An authoritative analysis of the trajectory and outcome of reform of the UK parliament across the past century, addressing significant debates about the balance of executive-legislative relations in Britain, and which employs historical and institutional perspectives for the purposes of analysing and explaining political change at Westminster. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JPQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 502.

The Labour government elected in 1997 pledged to reform the Westminster parliament by modernising the House of Commons and removing the hereditary peers from the House of Lords. Events have consequently demonstrated the deep controversy that accompanies such attempts at institutional reconfiguration, and have highlighted the shifting fault-lines in executive–legislative relations in the UK, as well as the deep complexities surrounding British constitutional politics.

The story of parliamentary reform is about the nature of the British political system, about how the government seeks to expand its control over parliament, and about how parliament discharges its duty to scrutinise ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719076756
SKU
V9780719076756
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Alexandra Kelso
Alexandra Kelso is Lecturer in British Politics at the University of Southampton -- .

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