A Parliament in Flux: A Cultural History of the Development of the British Legislative Process, 1945-1997.

这篇论文是政治学和历史学的交叉点。有丰富的政治科学研究探索英国的立法程序和评估议会的审查能力。特别是，立法研究文献产生了一篇议会衰落论文，并对委员会、议会辩论和提问时间的有效性进行了大量研究。本文旨在为这一广泛的政治科学研究提供一个历史背景和深度。这篇论文跟踪了战后、后帝国时期英国立法程序的发展——例如，委员会制度或常设命令——直到1997年权力下放这一转型的宪法时刻。这项研究将观察程序的变化以及它们如何影响审查能力。与此同时，本文将从更广泛的角度来看待这些发展如何不仅影响了国内政策，还影响了英国的全球地位。这篇论文也为宪法研究和联邦制文学贡献了新的见解，它的目的是关注议会所面临的有关英国联盟的问题。因此，本文有三个主要目标：将英国立法过程历史化，并将政治科学文献置于背景下。了解这一立法过程的发展如何对国内决策和英国在世界上的地缘政治产生影响。更具体地说，为议会进程的发展如何影响英国作为一个四国联盟的治理方式提供见解。这些目标允许在可以探索的途径方面有很大的空间，并且可以通过丰富的原始材料来指导更有限和具体的重点。

This thesis sits at the intersection between political science and history. There is a rich political science scholarship exploring the British legislative process and assessing parliament's scrutiny capacity.In particular, the legislative studies literature has produced a parliamentary decline thesis and a wealth of research into the effectiveness of committees, parliamentary debates and question times. What this thesis aims to do is contribute a historical context and depth to this extensive political science research. This thesis follows developments in legislative processes-for example, the committee systems or standing orders-in post-war, post-imperial Britain until that transformational constitutional moment that was devolution in 1997. The research will observe both the procedural changes and how they have affected scrutiny capacity. All the while, this thesis will take a broader view of how these developments haveaffected not just domestic policy, but Britain's standing globally. This thesis also contributes new insights to constitutional studies and federalism literature where it aims to focus on issues that have faced parliament concerning the UK union. As such, this thesis has three broad objectives:To historicise the British legislative process and contextualise the political science literatureTo understand how the development of this legislative process has had an impact on both domestic decision-making and the geopolitics of Britain in the world. To offer insights, more specifically, into how the development of parliamentary processes has influenced the way the UK is governed as a union of four nations.Such objectives allow for a wide berth in terms of what avenues can be explored and more limited and specific foci can be directed by the wealth of source material.