Constitution-Making and the Labour Party

✍ Scribed by Mark Evans (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 396
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction — From Elite to Third Way Democracy?....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Constitutional Doctrine and Revisionism in the Labour Party....Pages 15-39
The Rise of the Competition State....Pages 40-71
The New Constitutionalism....Pages 72-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Electoral Reform and the Clammy Hands of Centralism....Pages 101-131
Modernizing Parliament — Reforming the House of Lords....Pages 132-157
Bringing Rights Home....Pages 158-186
Freedom of Information and Open Government....Pages 187-214
Devolution to Scotland and Wales — is ‘Power Devolved, Power Retained’?....Pages 215-250
A Different Union, A Different Ireland?....Pages 251-286
Constitutional Futures — the New Constitutionalism and the Impact of Spill-Over....Pages 287-311
In Conclusion — Third Way Democracy is Elite Democracy in Disguise....Pages 312-328
Back Matter....Pages 329-386

✦ Subjects

British Politics;Political Science;Political Theory

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