Parliamentary Affairs articles from April 1996

Parliamentary Affairs archives from April 1996

Public administration and government 1994-95.
April 1, 1996... TOWARDS the end of June 1995 Mr Major announced to a press conference in the garden of No.10 Downing Street that he was resigning as leader of the Conservative Party but offering himself as a candidate in a new leadership contest. Referring...

Labour and public service reform.
April 1, 1996... TONY BLAIR and Jack Straw in the Labour Party's submission to the Nolan Committee claimed that public confidence in the system of government in Britain is now dangerously low'. For the first time since the great reforms of the mid-19th...

Citizenship, community and constitutionalism.
April 1, 1996... IN COMMON with many other countries British politics is in a state of flux to a degree that is not only unprecedented but one that is not easy to fully comprehend; and the notion that this is part and parcel of what has become fashionable to...

The politics of anti-partyism.
April 1, 1996... It was inevitable that the revolution in communications technology, sybolized by the Internet, would raise questions about its impact on the institutions of representative democracy. The editor of The Economist, for example, proclaims that...

British politicians: to rehabilitate or not?
April 1, 1996... POLITICIANS in the United Kingdom are not highly regarded. A recent MORI poll in the Times (24.11.95) makes this extremely clear and it is a picture which British Social Attitudes corroborates. Interviewees were asked two questions: Which...

Keeping it 'bright, light and trite': changing newspaper reporting of Parliament.
April 1, 1996... IN ONE of Conan Doyle's detective novels Dr Watson, relaxing in his chair on a sunny August day, complained to his friend that he was bored; `there is nothing in the newspapers', he observed. Holmes responded rather impatiently by offering...

The Conservative Party leadership election of 1995.
April 1, 1996... WHEN John Major announced, on 22 June 1995, that he had decided to resign and seek re-election to the Conservative Party leadership, he was reacting to almost three years of often acrimonious intra-party dissension, during which he had...

Mobilising the 'women's vote': the gender-generation gap in voting behaviour.
April 1, 1996... This article explores the nature of gender differences in British voting behaviour. The first part outlines trends in British general elections from 1964 to 1992. Rather than a simple `gender-gap', we argue that it is more useful to talk...

The road to victory? The American right and the Clinton administration.
April 1, 1996... FORTY years have passed since the modern American conservative movement came together in the magazine National Review with its first issue's seemingly quixotic call to stand athwart history and yell stop. In what are often viewed as the...

Political Communication: The General Election Campaign of 1992.
April 1, 1996... How do the media affect the conduct of democratic politics? What is the best conceivable relationship between the media system and political system, assuming that the private sector is likely to be of continuing dominance both in press and...

Packaging Politics.
April 1, 1996... How do the media affect the conduct of democratic politics? What is the best conceivable relationship between the media system and political system, assuming that the private sector is likely to be of continuing dominance both in press and...

Election Campaigning: The New Marketing of Politics.
April 1, 1996... How do the media affect the conduct of democratic politics? What is the best conceivable relationship between the media system and political system, assuming that the private sector is likely to be of continuing dominance both in press and...

Designer Politics.
April 1, 1996... How do the media affect the conduct of democratic politics? What is the best conceivable relationship between the media system and political system, assuming that the private sector is likely to be of continuing dominance both in press and...

Soundbites and Spin Doctors.
April 1, 1996... How do the media affect the conduct of democratic politics? What is the best conceivable relationship between the media system and political system, assuming that the private sector is likely to be of continuing dominance both in press and...

An Introduction to Political Communication.
April 1, 1996... How do the media affect the conduct of democratic politics? What is the best conceivable relationship between the media system and political system, assuming that the private sector is likely to be of continuing dominance both in press and...

Ruling Brittania: The Failure and Future of British Democracy.
April 1, 1996... Nothing will ever be the same again: voting for the opposition will not press the nation's rewind button, returning us to a golden age of traditional social-democratic politics. Postwar Britain is dead; the `ragged revolution' of the right...

Accountable to None: The Tory Nationalization of Britain.
April 1, 1996... Nothing will ever be the same again: voting for the opposition will not press the nation's rewind button, returning us to a golden age of traditional social-democratic politics. Postwar Britain is dead; the `ragged revolution' of the right...

The Hidden Wiring: Unearthing the British Constitution.
April 1, 1996... Nothing will ever be the same again: voting for the opposition will not press the nation's rewind button, returning us to a golden age of traditional social-democratic politics. Postwar Britain is dead; the `ragged revolution' of the right...

The End of Whitehall: Death of a Paradigm.
April 1, 1996... The stress under which the traditional model of British governance now operates threatens its very survival. This situation is admirably illustrated by Campbell and Wilson's book, which is based, impressively, on some 300 interviews of...

Prime Minister, Cabinet and Core Executive.
April 1, 1996... The stress under which the traditional model of British governance now operates threatens its very survival. This situation is admirably illustrated by Campbell and Wilson's book, which is based, impressively, on some 300 interviews of...

Churchill to Major: The British Prime Ministership Since 1945.
April 1, 1996... The stress under which the traditional model of British governance now operates threatens its very survival. This situation is admirably illustrated by Campbell and Wilson's book, which is based, impressively, on some 300 interviews of...

Policy-Making in Britain: An Introduction.
April 1, 1996... The stress under which the traditional model of British governance now operates threatens its very survival. This situation is admirably illustrated by Campbell and Wilson's book, which is based, impressively, on some 300 interviews of...

Pressure Groups Today.
April 1, 1996... The stress under which the traditional model of British governance now operates threatens its very survival. This situation is admirably illustrated by Campbell and Wilson's book, which is based, impressively, on some 300 interviews of...

Pressure Groups, Politics, and Democracy in Britain.
April 1, 1996... The stress under which the traditional model of British governance now operates threatens its very survival. This situation is admirably illustrated by Campbell and Wilson's book, which is based, impressively, on some 300 interviews of...

The Treasury and Whitehall: The Planning and Control of Public Expenditure, 1976-1993.
April 1, 1996... The stress under which the traditional model of British governance now operates threatens its very survival. This situation is admirably illustrated by Campbell and Wilson's book, which is based, impressively, on some 300 interviews of...

The Monarchy and the Constitution.
April 1, 1996... As a teacher and writer on the United Kingdom's constitutional arrangements it would not be unusual for this professional interest to become a personal interest. There is a danger that one might think such an interest is widely shared....

The Hidden Wiring: Unearthing the British Constitution.
April 1, 1996... As a teacher and writer on the United Kingdom's constitutional arrangements it would not be unusual for this professional interest to become a personal interest. There is a danger that one might think such an interest is widely shared....

Re-shaping Public Power: Northern Ireland and the British Constitutional Crisis.
April 1, 1996... As a teacher and writer on the United Kingdom's constitutional arrangements it would not be unusual for this professional interest to become a personal interest. There is a danger that one might think such an interest is widely shared....

The Changing Constitution, 3d ed.
April 1, 1996... As a teacher and writer on the United Kingdom's constitutional arrangements it would not be unusual for this professional interest to become a personal interest. There is a danger that one might think such an interest is widely shared....

The MacMillan Years.
April 1, 1996... Publishers continue to pile the biographies high without selling them cheap; but there is some good value for money here, notably where the subject is substantial and/or the writing is attractive. The books about Prime Ministers qualify...

The Path to Power.
April 1, 1996... Publishers continue to pile the biographies high without selling them cheap; but there is some good value for money here, notably where the subject is substantial and/or the writing is attractive. The books about Prime Ministers qualify...

Clement Atlee.
April 1, 1996... Publishers continue to pile the biographies high without selling them cheap; but there is some good value for money here, notably where the subject is substantial and/or the writing is attractive. The books about Prime Ministers qualify...

Who Goes Home? Scenes from a Political Life.
April 1, 1996... Publishers continue to pile the biographies high without selling them cheap; but there is some good value for money here, notably where the subject is substantial and/or the writing is attractive. The books about Prime Ministers qualify...

Winston Churchill as I Knew Him.
April 1, 1996... Publishers continue to pile the biographies high without selling them cheap; but there is some good value for money here, notably where the subject is substantial and/or the writing is attractive. The books about Prime Ministers qualify...

Mandarin, the Diaries of Nicholas Henderson.
April 1, 1996... Publishers continue to pile the biographies high without selling them cheap; but there is some good value for money here, notably where the subject is substantial and/or the writing is attractive. The books about Prime Ministers qualify...

Madam Speaker: The Life of Betty Boothroyd.
April 1, 1996... Publishers continue to pile the biographies high without selling them cheap; but there is some good value for money here, notably where the subject is substantial and/or the writing is attractive. The books about Prime Ministers qualify...

Michael Portillo: The Future of the Right.
April 1, 1996... Publishers continue to pile the biographies high without selling them cheap; but there is some good value for money here, notably where the subject is substantial and/or the writing is attractive. The books about Prime Ministers qualify...