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British government in crisis, or, The third English revolution /
Why are we badly governed? Why has a system of government - the envy of the world as recently as the 1970s - developed so many defects? Why is there such a gulf between political classes, who seem to believe the position satisfactory or inevitable, and the general public, increasingly disaffected by...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Portland, Or. :
Hart,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Introduction What Has Gone Wrong; 1 Parliament; 2 The Constitution Acquires a Third Element The Civil Service; 3 Decision Making The Exercise of Ministerial Power; 4 Laws That Work; 5 Cabinet Tries to Cope; 6 Overload and Gridlock The Old Regime's Decline; 7 Margaret Thatcher; 8 The Poll Tax; 9 Major The Counter Revolution That Failed; 10 The House of Commons Less Representative Less Effective; 11 The Spread of Grass Roots Anarchy; 12 Blair's Cabinet Monarchy Returns; 13 The Excesses of News Management; 14 Ministers Diminished Standing.
- 15 Civil Service End of Northcote Trevelyan16 Nadir of Government The Railways; 17 Summarising the Revolution; 18 Resilience or a Third Presidency; 19 A More Legal Constitution; 20 Restoration; Conclusion Where Do We Go From Here; Appendix The Author's Relevant Experience; Bibliography; Index.