Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download The Westminster Contribution full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Westminster Contribution ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Westminster Contribution written by and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
![Download The Westminster contribution [by members of the City of Westminster literary scientific and mechanics' institution]. PDF Online Free](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/YaADAAAAQAAJ?fife=w200-h370)
Author : City of Westminster literary, scientific and mechanics' institution
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Westminster contribution [by members of the City of Westminster literary scientific and mechanics' institution]. written by City of Westminster literary, scientific and mechanics' institution and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Meg Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198753829
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Legislation at Westminster written by Meg Russell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Westminster parliament is a highly visible political institution, and one of its core functions is approving new laws. Yet Britain's legislative process is often seen as executive-dominated, and parliament as relatively weak. As this book shows, such impressions can be misleading. Drawing on the largest study of its kind for more than forty years, Meg Russell and Daniel Gover cast new light on the political dynamics that shape the legislative process. They provide a fascinating account of the passage of twelve government bills - collectively attracting more than 4000 proposed amendments - through both the House of Commons and House of Lords. These include highly contested changes such as Labour's identity cards scheme and the coalition's welfare reforms, alongside other relatively uncontroversial measures. As well as studying the parliamentary record and amendments, the study draws from more than 100 interviews with legislative insiders. Following introductory chapters about the Westminster legislative process, the book focuses on the contribution of distinct parliamentary 'actors', including the government, opposition, backbenchers, select committees, and pressure groups. It considers their behaviour in the legislative process, what they seek to achieve, and crucially how they influence policy decisions. The final chapter reflects on Westminster's influence overall, showing this to be far greater than commonly assumed. Parliamentary influence is asserted in various different ways - ranging from visible amendments to more subtle means of changing government's behaviour. The book's findings make an important contribution to understanding both British politics and the dynamics of legislative bodies more broadly. Its readability and relevance will appeal to both specialists and general readers with interests in politics and law, in the UK and beyond.
Author : Alexander Ferrier MITCHELL
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Westminster Confession of Faith: a Contribution to the Study of Its Historical Relations and to the Defence of Its Teaching. ... Third Edition, with ... Observations in Reply to Some Recent Speeches and Publications of ... Dr. Lee written by Alexander Ferrier MITCHELL and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bulmer, W.
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529200660
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)
Download or read book Westminster and the World written by Bulmer, W. and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constitutional scholar Elliot Bulmer considers what Britain might learn from Westminster-derived constitutions around the world. Exploring the principles of Westminster Model constitutions and their impact on democracy, human rights and good government, this book builds to a bold re-imagining of the United Kingdom’s future written framework.
Author : Marc Geddes
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526136821
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Dramas at Westminster written by Marc Geddes and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on unprecedented access to the UK Parliament, this book challenges how we understand and think about accountability between government and Parliament. Drawing on three months of research in Westminster, and over forty-five interviews, this book focuses on the everyday practices of Members of Parliament and officials to reveal how parliamentarians perform their scrutiny roles. Some MPs become specialists while others act as lone wolves; some are there to try to defend their party while others want to learn about policy. Amongst these different styles, chairs of committees have to try to reconcile these interpretations and either act as committee-orientated catalysts or attempt to impose order as leadership-orientated chieftains. All of this pushes and pulls scrutiny in competing directions, and tells us that accountability depends on individual beliefs, everyday practices and the negotiation of dilemmas. In this way, MPs and officials create a drama or spectacle of accountability and use their performance on the parliamentary stage to hold government to account. Dramas at Westminster: Select committees and the quest for accountability offers the most up-to-date and detailed research on committee practices in the House of Commons, following a range of reforms since 2010.
Author : Yee-Fui Ng
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032095561
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (955 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Political Advisors in the Westminster System written by Yee-Fui Ng and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book adopts a comparative approach in analysing the rise in the power and significance of political advisers in the Westminster jurisdictions of the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
Author : Rachel Reeves
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788316770
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Women of Westminster written by Rachel Reeves and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1919 Nancy Astor was elected as the Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton, becoming the first woman MP to take her seat in the House of Commons. Her achievement was all the more remarkable given that women (and even then only some women) had only been entitled to vote for just over a year. In the past 100 years, a total of 491 women have been elected to Parliament. Yet it was not until 2016 that the total number of women ever elected surpassed the number of male MPs in a single parliament. The achievements of these political pioneers have been remarkable – Britain has now had two female Prime Ministers and women MPs have made significant strides in fighting for gender equality from the earliest suffrage campaigns to Barbara Castle's fight for equal pay to Harriet Harman's recent legislation on the gender pay gap. Yet the stories of so many women MPs have too often been overlooked in political histories. In this book, Rachel Reeves brings forgotten MPs out of the shadows and looks at the many battles fought by the Women of Westminster, from 1919 to 2019.
Author : Jonathan Craft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781009380263
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Advising Governments in the Westminster Tradition written by Jonathan Craft and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In turbulent environments and unstable political contexts, policy advisory systems have become more volatile. The policy advisory system in Anglophone countries is composed of different types of advisers who have input into government decision making. Government choices about who advises them varies widely as they demand contestability, greater partisan input and more external consultation. The professional advice of the public service may be disregarded. The consequences for public policy are immense depending on whether a plurality of advice works effectively or is derailed by narrow and partisan agendas that lack an evidence base and implementation plans. The book seeks to addresses these issues within a comparative country analysis of how policy advisory systems are constituted and how they operate in the age of instability in governance and major challenges with how the complexity policy issue can be handled.
Author : Peter Esaiasson
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814208397
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Beyond Westminster and Congress written by Peter Esaiasson and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text begins by setting the Scandinavian parliaments in their historical and national settings. It goes on to analyse political representation, parliamentary organization, parliamentary decision-making and considers the relations between the national parliaments and the larger European setting.
Author : John Bowring
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Kingdom and People of Siam written by John Bowring and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Mortimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781843837435
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Guide to the Muniments of Westminster Abbey written by Richard Mortimer and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the important records of Westminster Abbey, from the tenth century to the present day.
Author : R. A. W. Rhodes
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191609811
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Comparing Westminster written by R. A. W. Rhodes and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-08-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the governmental elites in Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa understand their Westminster system. It examines in detail four interrelated features of Westminster systems. Firstly, the increasing centralisation in collective, responsible cabinet government. Second, the constitutional convention of ministerial and collective responsibility. Third, the role of a professional, non-partisan public service. And finally, parliament's relationship to the executive. The authors explain the changes that have occured in the Westminster model by analysing four traditions: royal prerogative, responsible government, constitutional bureaucracy, and representative government. They suggest that each tradition has a recurring dilemma, between centralisation and decentralisation, party government and ministerial responsibility, professionalisation and politicisation, and finally elitism and participation. They go on to argue that these dilemmas recur in four present-day debates: the growth of prime ministerial power, the decline in individual and collective ministerial accountability, politicisation of the public service, and executive dominance of the legislature. They conclude by identifying five meanings of - or narratives about - Westminster. Firstly, 'Westminster as heritage' - elite actors' shared governmental narrative understood as both precedents and nostalgia. Second, 'Westminster as political tool' - the expedient cloak worn by governments and politicians to defend themselves and criticise opponents. Third, 'Westminster as legitimising tradition' - providing legitimacy and a context for elite actions, serving as a point of reference to navigate this uncertain world. Fourth, 'Westminster as institutional category' - it remains a useful descriptor of a loose family of governments with shared origins and characteristics. Finally, 'Westminster as an effective political system' - it is a more effective and efficient political system than consensual parliamentary governments. Westminster is a flexible family of ideas that is useful for many purposes and survives, even thrives, because of its meaning in use to élite actors.
Author : Richard Jenkyns
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674017160
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Westminster Abbey written by Richard Jenkyns and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Westminster Abbey is the most complex church in existence. National cathedral, coronation church, royal mausoleum, burial place of poets, resting place of the great and of the Unknown Warrior, former home of parliament, backdrop to the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales—this rich and extraordinary building unites many functions. Westminster Abbey is both an appreciation of an architectural masterpiece and an exploration of the building’s shifting meanings. We hear the voices of those who have described its forms, moods, and ceremonies, from Shakespeare and Voltaire to Dickens and Henry James; we see how rulers have made use of it, from medieval kings to modern prime ministers. In a highly original book, classicist and cultural historian Richard Jenkyns teaches us to look at this microcosm of history with new eyes.
Author : Andrew Smith
Publisher : University of Westminster Press
ISBN 13 : 1912656272
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Destination London written by Andrew Smith and published by University of Westminster Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London is one of the world’s most popular destinations and visitors contribute approximately £14.9 billion of expenditure to the city every year. Its tourism and events sectors are growing and over the last few years London has received more visitors than ever before. However, detailed accounts of the city’s visitor economy are conspicuously absent. This book analyses how the capital is developing as a destination through the expansion of tourism and events into new urban spaces. The book outlines how parts of London not previously regarded as tourist territory are now subject to the visitor gaze with tourism spreading beyond established central zones into peripheral, suburban and residential areas – in part propelled by a big rise in peer to peer accommodation use. Simultaneously, London’s airports and sports stadiums and their surrounds are becoming destinations in their own right. New vantage points have been created, allowing tourists to explore the city: from above, at night-time or through tours given by the homeless; via the opening up of the River Thames; or through the transformation of local parks into eventscapes. The book explores these trends and shows how urban destinations expand. In doing so, it enhances our understanding of London and highlights the growing significance of tourism and events in global cities.
Author : Ligon Duncan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781857928785
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (287 download)
Download or read book The Westminster Confession Into the 21st Century written by Ligon Duncan and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ligon Duncan has assembled an impressive array of contributors from a variety of ecclesiastical backgrounds.
Author : Garnet Howard Milne
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556358059
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)
Download or read book The Westminster Confession of Faith and the Cessation of Special Revelation written by Garnet Howard Milne and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the opening chapter of the Confession, the divines of Westminster included a clause that implied that there would no longer be any special immediate revelation from God. Means by which God had once communicated the divine will, such as dreams, visions, and the miraculous gifts of the Spirit, were said to be no longer available. However, many of the authors of the WCF accepted that prophecy continued in their time, and a number of them apparently believed that disclosure of God's will through dreams, visions, and angelic communication remained possible. How is the cessationist clause of WCF 1:1 to be read in the light of these claims? This book reconciles this paradox in a detailed study of the writings of the authors of the Westminster Confession of Faith.
