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

这篇论文处于政治学和历史学的交叉点。有丰富的政治科学奖学金探索英国立法过程和评估议会的审查能力。特别是，立法研究文献产生了议会衰落论文和大量关于委员会，议会辩论和质询时间的有效性的研究。本文的目的是为这一广泛的政治学研究提供一个历史背景和深度。本论文关注战后、后帝国英国立法程序的发展--例如委员会制度或现行命令--直到1997年权力下放这一变革性宪法时刻。研究将观察程序变化及其如何影响审查能力。与此同时，本文将从更广泛的角度来看待这些发展不仅影响了国内政策，而且影响了英国的全球地位。本论文也贡献了新的见解，宪法研究和联邦主义文学，它的目的是集中在议会面临的问题，有关英国联盟。因此，本论文有三大目标：历史化的英国立法过程和语境化的政治学文献了解如何立法过程的发展产生了影响国内决策和英国在世界上的地缘政治。提供见解，更具体地说，到议会程序的发展如何影响了英国作为一个联盟的四个国家的治理方式。这样的目标允许在什么途径可以探索和更有限的和具体的焦点可以通过丰富的源材料的指导方面有一个广阔的泊位。

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.