Parliamentary reform at Westminster
Parliamentary reform at Westminster
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威斯敏斯特议会改革
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2009
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A. Kelso
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A. Kelso
1997年当选的工党政府承诺改革威斯敏斯特议会，对下议院进行现代化改造，并将世袭贵族从上议院中剔除。因此，事件表明了深刻的争议，伴随着这种尝试在机构重构，并突出了在英国的行政立法关系的变化断层线，以及深刻的复杂性，围绕英国宪政。议会改革的故事是关于英国政治制度的本质，关于政府如何寻求扩大对议会的控制，以及关于议会如何履行其职责，审查行政部门并追究其责任。这本书描绘了自1997年以来威斯敏斯特改革的历程，但这样做是通过将其置于过去所追求的议会改革的背景下，从而采用了一种历史的视角，使其具有相当大的分析价值。值得注意的是，本书从制度理论的透镜审视了议会改革，不仅对改革进行了描述，而且对其进行了解读和解释。此外，本书还对自1997年以来参与议会改革的议员和同行进行了广泛采访，从而为这些政治行动者如何看待他们所参与的改革进程提供了独特的见解。由该领域的新兴权威撰写，威斯敏斯特的议会改革提供了对议会改革的轨迹和结果的全面分析，沿着对该改革及其对我们理解英国政治的影响的精辟和原创的解释。
The Labour government elected in 1997 pledged to reform the Westminster parliament by modernising the House of Commons and removing the hereditary peers from the House of Lords. Events have consequently demonstrated the deep controversy that accompanies such attempts at institutional reconfiguration, and have highlighted the shifting fault-lines in executive-legislative relations in the UK, as well as the deep complexities surrounding British constitutional politics. The story of parliamentary reform is about the nature of the British political system, about how the government seeks to expand its control over parliament, and about how parliament discharges its duty to scrutinise the executive and hold it to account. This book charts the course of Westminster reform since 1997, but does so by placing it in the context of parliamentary reform pursued in the past, and thus adopts a historical perspective which lends it considerable analytical value. Significantly, the book examines parliamentary reform through the lens of institutional theory, in order not only to describe reform but also to interpret and explain it. It also draws on extensive interviews conducted with MPs and peers involved in the reform of parliament since 1997, thus offering a unique insight into how these political actors perceived the reform process in which they played a part. Written by an emerging authority in the field, Parliamentary reform at Westminster provides a comprehensive analysis of the trajectory and outcome of the reform of parliament, along with an incisive and original interpretation of that reform and its implications for our understanding of British politics.