Constitutional reform in the United Kingdom:
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| adam_text | Detailed Contents
Preface
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
PART I THE BACKGROUND TO CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM
1
Does the UK have a Constitution? What does it consist of?
The Westminster model
A liberal interpretation of the Westminster model
Alternative narratives about the operation of the system: networks and
governance
Pressure for reform of the Westminster model
The juridification of politics
Judicializing politics
Comity, trust, and juridification
The politico-legal debate
Towards constitutionalism?
2
Democracy
Representative democracy and parliamentary sovereignty
Participatory and deliberative democracy
Criteria for evaluating democracy: can it be audited?
Citizenship
Citizenship and rights
The citizen as consumer?
Citizenship and responsibilities
Civil society and citizenship
Summary
Vlil
3
Accountability 48
Political accountability
Public accountability
Legal accountability/Judicialization
Audit, inspection, and administrative accountability
Webs of accountability
In search of intelligent accountability
Maintaining an uncorrupt system
The Committee on Standards in Public Life
Formalizing the public service ethos?
Summary
4
Background
Primacy and direct effect or European Community law
European institutions: Who and what do they represent? Are they
democratic?
Law and law-making in the
Democracy in the
Subsidiarity
Good governance in Europe
A Europe of the regions ?
European citizenship and fundamental rights
Human Rights and the European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights
The Charter rights
The legal status of the Charter
Comments on the Charter
Towards a Constitution for the
The United Kingdom s membership of the Community
Sovereignty and the primacy and direct effect of European law in the
United Kingdom
The UK Parliament s role in relation to the
Devolution and Europe
Summary and conclusions
CONTENTS
5
Judicial review
The grounds for judicial review
The scope of judicial review
Is there a democratic justification for judicial review?
Towards constitutionalism?
Human rights, fundamental rights, and constitutional rights
Constitutional statutes
Justifications for the judicial development of principles of
constitutionalism
The courts and theories of democracy, citizenship, and good governance
Summary and conclusions
PART II CITIZEN-CENTRED REFORMS
6
The European Convention on Human Rights 111
The Human Rights Act
Duty of compatible interpretation
Declarations of incompatibility and remedial orders
Vertical and horizontal effect
Remedies
Parliamentary safeguards for human rights
Derogation
Democracy, citizenship, and good governance under the Human Rights Act
Majoritarianism v. human rights
Law, politics, and the Human Rights Act
Towards rights-based citizenship
The Human Rights Act and good governance
Beyond the Human Rights Act
Towards constitutional protection of social and economic rights?
Conclusions
X
7
Elections
Legitimacy of elected bodies
Votes for representatives, delegates, or policies?
Turnout and the effective vote
Candidates for election: how representative should they be?
Electoral systems
First past the post
Proportional representation systems: party lists and
Preferential voting: the single transferable vote and the alternative vote
Electoral systems and one-party or coalition government
General conclusions about electoral systems
The funding of political parties and election campaigns
The Electoral Commission
Election campaigns—candidates and third-party expenditure
Election campaigns—the national parties
Public funding for parliamentary activity and research
Additional public funding for the parties?
Referendums
The future reform agenda
Electoral Commission projects
Fixed-term Parliaments?
Conclusions
8
Why is open government a good thing?
Access to information in the UK
The Code of Practice on Access to Government Information
Openness in local government
The Freedom of Information Act
The
Absolute exemptions from the duty to disclose information
Qualified or public interest exemptions
Appeals and the ministerial veto
General comments and assessment
CONTENTS Xl
PART Ml INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS
9
What is Parliament?
The modernization of the House of Commons
Reforming the legislative process
The select committees
A positive view of progress in Commons reform?
Standards of conduct in the House of Commons
Procedural problems
Summary and conclusions on the modernization ofthe House of Commons
10
Composition of the second chamber
The role and functions ofthe second chamber
The recommendations ofthe Royal Commission on Reform ofthe House of
Lords
Responses to the Royal Commission s recommendations
Reform ofthe working practices of the House
Issues for democracy, citizenship, and good governance in the reform ofthe
second chamber
Conclusions on the reform of Parliament
11
The Crown and the state
The legal status ofthe Crown and the royal prerogative
The
The Ram doctrine
The Crown and the courts: the CCSUcase
Regulation inside government
The Treasury and Public Service Agreements
Ministers and Parliament: individual ministerial responsibility
The Prime Minister s accountability to the House of Commons
The public service ethos and standards of conduct in government
Conclusions
XU CONTENTS
12 Government:
New Public Management in
From NPM to Next
Accountability for agencies
Steps since Next Steps
The Citizen s Charter and Service First
Civil Servants and Ministers
Special Advisers
Spin and the press
Is reform possible?
A Civil Service Act for the UK?
Conclusions
13
Arguments for devolution
Subsidiarity
Options for reform
The background and common features of the devolution arrangements
Maintaining the sovereignty of the UK Parliament
Limited competence of the devolved bodies
Inter-institutional relations
Finance
The Secretaries of State
Regulation of conduct and procedure
14
Scotland
Scotland s Parliament
The Scottish executive
A Civic Forum
Northern Ireland
The Belfast Agreement
The Northern Ireland Assembly
The Northern Ireland executive
A Civic Forum
Towards a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland?
Observations
CONTENTS
Wales 274
The National
The Welsh executive committee
Partnership arrangements
The future
15
London
The Mayor
The Assembly
Regional Devolution in England
Top-down decentralization to the regions
Towards bottom-up devolution
The government s proposals
The United Kingdom
The West Lothian question
The English (and Welsh) question
A role in devolution for the second chamber?
Reflections on devolution
16
Rationales for local government
Reforming local government
The well-being power
Consultation and participation
Service delivery: partnerships, Best Value , Public Service
Agreements
New executive arrangements in local government
The Leader and Cabinet system
Mayor and Executive model
Mayor and Council Manager model
The role of the Department for Transport, Local Government, and the
Regions
Good governance in local government: The Hull experience
Standards of conduct in local government
From politics to juridification in local government
Summary and conclusions
XIV CONTENTS
17
Classifying quangos
Rationales for quangos
Accountability
Quangos and ombudsmen
Propriety and the public service ethos
Appointments
Connecting quangos with the public
Local and English regional quangos
A Democratic Audit of quango arrangements
Lessons from overseas
Conclusions
18
Relationships between the judiciary, Parliament, and the Executive
Independence and impartiality: what do they mean?
The Lord Chancellor
Modernizing the office of Lord Chancellor?
The appointment of judges
Criteria for appointment
Parliamentary confirmation hearings?
A Judicial Appointments Commission?
A new Supreme Court?
Summary and conclusions
PART IV CONCLUSIONS
19
Good Governance?
Developing democracy
Sovereignty
Representation and representative democracy
Participatory democracy
Citizenship in the UK
Towards European citizenship?
The future of citizenship
CONTENTS
Good governance
Accountability
Juridification and trust
Chart
Chart
20
Cultural aspects of the political constitution
Towards constitutionalization?
The courts and constitutionalism
What kind of constitutionalism
Future prospects for the political constitution
A written Constitution for the UK?
Conclusions
And finally
Appendix Articles from the European Convention on Human Rights that have
been incorporated into UK law by the Human Rights Act (taken from Schedule
to the Act).
Lût
References
Index
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