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Ministers and parliament : accountability in theory and practice

Title
Ministers and parliament : accountability in theory and practice / Diana Woodhouse.
Author
Woodhouse, Diana.
Publication
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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viii, 321 pages; 23 cm
Summary
Examines the divergence between theory and practice. The author analyses the situations in which ministers resign, the effectiveness of resignation as a means of accountability, and the abdication by ministers of responsibility. She also examines the powers and limitations of Select Committees.
Subject
  • Großbritannien Parliament
  • Ministerial responsibility > Great Britain
  • Cabinet system > Great Britain
  • 86.50 constitutional law: general
  • Cabinet system
  • Ministerial responsibility
  • Minister
  • Ministerverantwortlichkeit
  • Ministeriële verantwoordelijkheid
  • Constitutional law
  • Geschichte 1980-1990
  • Great Britain
  • Großbritannien
Note
  • Revision of thesis (doctoral).
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-311]) and index.
Contents
  • pt. 1. The Convention of Individual Ministerial Responsibility. 1. The Accountability of Ministers to Parliament. 2. The Content of the Convention -- pt. 2. Resignations and Non-Resignations: The Operation of Individual Ministerial Responsibility in the 1980s and 1990s. 3. The Requirement for Resignation. 4. Resignations for Personal Fault: Political Errors. 5. Resignations for Personal Fault: Private Indiscretion. 6. Resignations for Departmental Fault. 7. Cases of Non-Resignation: Political Circumstances and Constitutional Obligations. 8. Cases of Non-Resignation: An Evasion of Ministerial Responsibility? 9. Conclusion -- pt. 3. Changes Affecting the Operation of Individual Ministerial Responsibility. 10. The Reform of the Select Committee System: An Attempt to Redress the Balance. 11. Next Steps Agencies: Management Reform in the Civil Service. 12. Next Steps Agencies: The Problems of Accountability -- pt. 4. Conclusion. 13. Comparative Perspectives on Accountability and Constitutional Reform.
  • 14. Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 0198278926
  • 9780198278924
LCCN
93030851
OCLC
  • ocm28631293
  • 28631293
  • SCSB-2011140
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library