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Constitutional Futures Revisited

Britain's Constitution to 2020

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Introduction: Forecasting Constitutional Futures

    1. Introduction: Forecasting Constitutional Futures

      • Mark Glover, Robert Hazell
      Pages 1-25
  3. The Decentralised State

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
    2. Northern Ireland: Polarisation or Normalisation?

      • Robin Wilson, Rick Wilford
      Pages 56-72
    3. Answering the English Question

      • Alan Harding, Robert Hazell, Martin Burch, James Rees
      Pages 73-89
    4. The Future of Britishness

      • Arthur Aughey
      Pages 90-105
  4. The Central State

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
    2. The Judiciary

      • Andrew Le Sueur, Kate Malleson
      Pages 109-122
    3. Whitehall

      • Scott L. Greer
      Pages 123-138
  5. New Forms of Accountability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
    2. The New Human Rights Culture

      • Colm O’Cinneide
      Pages 159-177
    3. Downward Slope? FOI and Access to Government Information

      • Mark Glover, Sarah Holsen
      Pages 178-196
    4. Watchdogs of the Constitution — the Biters Bit?

      • Oonagh Gay, Barry K. Winetrobe
      Pages 197-214
    5. Media Pressures on Politics

      • Peter Riddell
      Pages 215-230
  6. Representation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-231
    2. Whither the Parties?

      • Justin Fisher
      Pages 249-266

About this book

The UK is going through a period of unprecedented constitutional change. There is much unfinished business, and further changes still to come. Where are these changes taking us? In this book, leading political scientists and lawyers forecast the impact of these changes on the UK's key institutions and the constitution as a whole.

Reviews

'Were there to be a Royal Commission on the constitution, this book would be its handbook.' - Lordon Philip Norton, Professor of Government at the University of Hull, UK

'Constitutional reform is a process not an event. It is taking us into uncharted waters. All students of the constitution

will be grateful to Robert Hazell and the Constitution Unit at University College, London, for Constitutional Futures Revisited, which shows us how to steer past the dangerous shoals and reach dry land.' - Vernon Bogdanor, Professor of Government, Oxford University, UK

'We used to think of the British Constitution as having an illustrious past but not much of a future. The last 10 years have changed all that. The question for lawyers, constitutionalists, politicians, and the public at large is now: where will (and should) it all end up? That is the question this valuable book answers.' - Lord Bingham, Senior Law Lord

'Britain's constantly morphing constitutional landscape needs an ace cartographer to make sense of it for the rest of us and in Robert Hazell it has found one. His team of fellow map-makers is very impressive and the result is fascinating.' - Peter Hennessy, FBA, Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History, Queen Mary, University Of London, UK

'Like all good books, Constitutional Futures Revisited provokes as many questions as it answers...[it] has set a new benchmark in terms of state of the art constitutional studies in the United Kingdom.' - Political Studies Review

'An excellent book...At a time in which the UK constitutional structure is changing at an exceptional rate, Constitutional Futures Revisited should be considered an essential read.' - Public Law

Editors and Affiliations

  • University College London, UK

    Robert Hazell

About the editor

ROBERT HAZELL is Professor of Government and the Constitution at University College London, UK, and Director of the Constitution Unit in UCL's School of Public Policy. Originally a barrister, he was a senior civil servant in the Home Office before becoming Director of the Nuffield Foundation, and then founding the Constitution Unit in 1995.

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