Add to ORKGJust how strong is the Conservatives mandate? With only 24.7% of eligible voters opting to support them, perhaps not as strong as their majority might suggest. One of their first moves has been to abolish the House of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee, a key organ of democracy in the struggle to improve British democracy. Here, the most recent Chair of the Committee Graham Allen MP, Martin Smith, and Dave Richards argue that the whole affair illustrates an indulgence of executive power over the legislature
UKIP’s rise has caught the establishment by surprise, with the main parties doing all they can to pr...
Constitutional matters have dominated contemporary British politics for some time, and as Brexit dev...
Since the election last May, the coalition government has pursued a wide-ranging programme of consti...
Just how strong is the Conservatives mandate? With only 24.7% of eligible voters opting to support t...
The incoming majority Conservative Government have made one of their first decisions the abolition o...
The incoming majority Conservative government has opted to abolish the House of Commons Political an...
This May’s General Election saw the end of the first full coalition in post-war British politics, be...
The long periods between 1945 and 1970, and 1979 to 2010 proved that the British political system is...
There is an urgent need to move beyond a nineteenth century set of ideas about democracy and governa...
The 2011 Fixed-Term Parliaments Act was the most successful of the constitutional reform measures ch...
As part of our 2017 Audit of UK Democracy, Artemis Photiadou and Patrick Dunleavy consider how well ...
The British Westminster parliament is frequently dismissed as a weak policy actor, in the face of do...
Few expected the Coalition Government formed in the wake of the 2010 General Election to last as lon...
The latest Coalition reshuffle saw the size of the payroll vote remain steady, with 140 members of t...
Constitutional matters have dominated contemporary British politics for some time, and as Brexit dev...
UKIP’s rise has caught the establishment by surprise, with the main parties doing all they can to pr...
Constitutional matters have dominated contemporary British politics for some time, and as Brexit dev...
Since the election last May, the coalition government has pursued a wide-ranging programme of consti...
Just how strong is the Conservatives mandate? With only 24.7% of eligible voters opting to support t...
The incoming majority Conservative Government have made one of their first decisions the abolition o...
The incoming majority Conservative government has opted to abolish the House of Commons Political an...
This May’s General Election saw the end of the first full coalition in post-war British politics, be...
The long periods between 1945 and 1970, and 1979 to 2010 proved that the British political system is...
There is an urgent need to move beyond a nineteenth century set of ideas about democracy and governa...
The 2011 Fixed-Term Parliaments Act was the most successful of the constitutional reform measures ch...
As part of our 2017 Audit of UK Democracy, Artemis Photiadou and Patrick Dunleavy consider how well ...
The British Westminster parliament is frequently dismissed as a weak policy actor, in the face of do...
Few expected the Coalition Government formed in the wake of the 2010 General Election to last as lon...
The latest Coalition reshuffle saw the size of the payroll vote remain steady, with 140 members of t...
Constitutional matters have dominated contemporary British politics for some time, and as Brexit dev...
UKIP’s rise has caught the establishment by surprise, with the main parties doing all they can to pr...
Constitutional matters have dominated contemporary British politics for some time, and as Brexit dev...
Since the election last May, the coalition government has pursued a wide-ranging programme of consti...