Author : Tom Ginsburg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 29,47 MB
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107020565
Assesses what we know - and do not know - about comparative constitutional design and particular institutional choices concerning executive power and other issues.
Author : Charles Pettit MACILVAINE (Bishop of Ohio.)
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,58 MB
Release : 1841
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Author : W.R. Williams
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 49,87 MB
Release :
Category : History
ISBN : 5872496427
Author : Keith M. Dowding
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 39,20 MB
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1922144010
This book examines the roles, responsibilities and accountabilities of Australian cabinet ministers. It examines the sorts of jobs ministers do, what is expected of them, what they expect of the job and how they (are supposed to) work together as a team. It considers aspects of how they are chosen to become ministers; how they are scrutinised by parliament and the media; and how ministers themselves view accountability. It also looks at the causes of calls for ministers to resign, examines scandals around ministers and assesses ministerial accountability.
Author : Diana Woodhouse
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,14 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198278924
In constitutional theory the convention of individual ministerial responsibility ensures the accountability of ministers to Parliament. In practice it is frequently used by government to limit rather than facilitate accountability. In this book Diana Woodhouse examines the divergence betweentheory and practice.She analyses the situations in which ministers resign, the effectivness of resignation as a means of accountability, and the abdication by ministers of responsibility. She also examines the powers and limitations of Select Committees, the effect of the new Next Steps Agencies on individualministerial responsibility, and draws comparisons with mechanisms of accountability adopted by other countries operating under the Westminster system of government.The inclusion of detailed case studies of the resignations, actual and threatened, of Lord Carrington, Leon Brittan, Edwina Currie, David Mellor, James Prior, and Kenneth Baker make this book especially pertinent to our understanding of the current political scene and to recent institutional changeswithin Parliament and government. By highlighting the present deficiencies and possible future failing in public accountability Dr Woodhouse's study provides an essential complement to recent debates about constitutional reform.
Author : Donald Savoie
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,55 MB
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1442659297
Canada's machinery of government is out of joint. In Breaking the Bargain, Donald J. Savoie reveals how the traditional deal struck between politicians and career officials that underpins the workings of our national political and administrative process is today being challenged. He argues that the role of bureaucracy within the Canadian political machine has never been properly defined, that the relationship between elected and permanent government officials is increasingly problematic, and that the public service cannot function if it is expected to be both independent of, and subordinate to, elected officials. While the public service attempts to define its own political sphere, the House of Commons is also in flux: the prime minister and his close advisors wield ever more power, and cabinet no longer occupies the policy ground to which it is entitled. Ministers, who have traditionally been able to develop their own roles, have increasingly lost their autonomy. Federal departmental structures are crumbling, giving way to a new model that eschews boundaries in favour of sharing policy and program space with outsiders. The implications of this functional shift are profound, having a deep impact on how public policies are struck, how government operates, and, ultimately, the capacity for accountability.
Author : Philip Norton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1526145464
Who governs Britain? Is Parliament sovereign? Who chooses the Prime Minister? And who enforces the rules? The United Kingdom is in the throes of political and constitutional conflict. Tensions between different Westminster and Holyrood, and between the UK and the European Union, are part of a wider picture of constitutional flux. The United Kingdom is one of only three nations that does not have the principal provisions of the organs of state, nor is how they relate to one another and to the citizen embodied in a single document. Devolution and Brexit have given rise to calls for a codified constitution, but the debate has taken place against a background of confusion and uncertainty as to existing constitutional arrangements. We must first understand what already exists and how our constitution works today. This deeply informed and elegantly written book addresses the problems that have arisen in the context of the greatest political crisis our country has faced in decades.
Author : Lisa Webley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 30,64 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Public law
ISBN : 0198853181
'Complete Public Law' combines extracts from key primary and secondary materials with jargon-free text to provide a resource for the student new to the study of constitutional and administrative law.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 2011-11-24
Category :
ISBN : 9264124934
This book reports on the results of an OECD survey on the work of ministerial advisors across 27 countries. It considers why they are used, how they are appointed, concerns that have be raised about them, and the transparency of their status.
Author : Adam Tomkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,71 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198262909
This book provides a thorough and authoritative account of the constitutional implications of the Scott report. It is the only book-length treatment of this pivotal Report. The Scott report was established by John Major in 1992 to look into British government policy during the 1980s with regard to trade (including the arms trade) with Iraq and to establish whether the Government had lied to Parliament about its policy. Scott also investigated a number of high-profile and controversial criminal prosecutions which the government brought against several companies that were accused of illegally exporting "defence equipment" to Iraq. All of these cases failed. This book does more than merely relate the Scott story. It offers a full analysis of what the report means for the future of constitutional government, and constitutional reform, in Britain. Issues of lying to Parliament and ministerial responsibility; of the regulation and control of the civil service; and of open government and freedom of information are all reappraised in the light of Scott's discoveries. Central questions of secret intelligence and troublesome "public interest immunity certificates" are also considered. Unusually for a political scandal, Scott was not an exclusively national affair affecting only one country. There was a little-known equivalent to the Scott inquiry in the USA, and the lessons of the US experience are also discussed here - for the first time in Britain.
