Constitutional Futures
A History of the Next Ten Years
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 January 1999
- ISBN 9780198298014
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages276 pages
- Size 241x162x20 mm
- Weight 539 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This is the first book about constitutional reform which sets out to forecast what the UK's constitution will look like in ten years time. Starting with the eleven constitutional Bills passed in 1997-98, the book analyses how these will affect the UK's constitutional structure, and examines in detail the further reforms that will be required to ensure that the new constitutional settlement beds down. The book has been written by a group of the leading experts, who have worked closely together on the project. As a result the chapters are tightly interwoven so that the cumulative and interactive effect of these changes is considered across the whole field of reform. The clear message of this book is that the constitutional reform programme will acquire its own momentum, and that work needs to begin now to ensure that the programme is carried through successfully.
MoreLong description:
Tony Blair has described the government's programme of constitutional reform as `the most extensive package of constitutional change ever proposed'. It will transform the political landscape, in ways which are not yet fully understood; and some of which the government does not intend. This book is a guide to the new political and legal system that will result.
The changes will include
greater checks and balances and greater separation of powers
a new territorial politics, with greater competition between the nations and regions of the UK
fragmentation of the party system, and the emergence of more regional political parties
a shift of power from Parliament to the courts, with more litigation against government, and between the new levels of government within the UK
changing concepts of citizenship and democracy
a more pluralist, consensus-building style of politics with more coalition governments and more minority parties in place of the adversarial two-party system.
These are just some of the themes explored in the Constitution Unit's new book, Constitutional Futures: A History of the Next Ten Years. It is a seminal piece of work, which should interest teachers and students of law and politics, opinion formers and policy makers, and all those involved in this period of unprecedented constitutional change.
there are three mysteries about the transformation of the UK. What does the Prime Minister think he is doing? Why doesn't the British media hold constitutional reform to be important enough to demand an answer to this question? And why don't "the people" care? Any overview of the reforms now under way, such as Constitutional Futures, the aptly timed, keynote publication of the Constitution Unit, should be judged in the first instance on how well it addresses these puzzling questions.
Table of Contents:
List of Contributors
Foreword
Introduction
The Shape of Things to Come: What Will the UK Constitution Look Like in the Early 21st Century?
A Rolling Programme of Devolution: Slippery Slope or Safeguard of the Union?
British Constitutional Reform and the Relationship with Europe
Constitutionalism, Regulation and Review
Fragmentation in the Party and Political Systems
Westminster: Squeezed From Above and Below
Machinery of Government: Whitehall
Intergovernmental Relations in a Devolved United Kingdom: Making Devolution Work
The Environment and Constitutional Change
Case Study- Financing Devolution, the Centre Retains Control
Citizenship
The New Constitutional Settlement
Further Reading
Index
