Andrew Blick
Biographic Data
| ID | 4384213 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Blick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Blick |
| SIGNATURE | BLICK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9527-1978 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Documents on the Nineteenth Century United Kingdom Constitution: Volume II: People, Parties and Politicians
Electrified Democracy: The Internet and the United Kingdom Parliament in History
The story of how the UK Parliament came to use the Internet from the 1960s onwards has never been told. Electrified Democracy places the impact of technology on parliamentary workings in its longer term historical context. The author identifies repeating patterns of perception and analysis, and cultural tendencies in the perception of inventions dating back over centuries that have reasserted themselves in connection with the parliamentary respon…
Divided Culture and Constitutional Tensions: Brexit and the Collision of Direct and Representative Democracy
This article considers connections between two aspects of Brexit: the cultural divide exposed and amplified by the European Union (EU) referendum of 23 June 2016 and the prolonged and intense period of multiple and overlapping constitutional tensions that followed the referendum. The referendum revealed the existence of two contrasting cultural groupings. Each was defined by a cluster of values that extended beyond attitudes towards the particula…
Prime Minister and Cabinet
While British political history is frequently preoccupied with the role and actions of prime ministers and Cabinets, the formal study of those institutions remains underdeveloped. In part this is because those roles have often been imprecisely defined, and understood largely in terms of the personnel who discharged them. The value of biography, or collective biography, in analysing these subjects is therefore considered in this chapter, alongside…
Constitutional Implications of the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act 2011
The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 arose from a specific political circumstance: the need to cement the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition formed after the May 2010 General Election, but it had a far wider significance. The Act had important implications for the constitution, raising questions about the way in which it changes and the nature of its overall development. It brought about transformations long advocated by reformers. The Act re…
Referendums and Ethnic Conflict
Emergency powers and the withering of the Royal Prerogative
A feature common to most governments in different time periods and places is that they possess exceptional powers applicable to emergencies. These authorities are necessary but vulnerable to abuse. Democracies seek to create and restrain such powers through constitutional texts and supplementary legislation. In the UK, lacking a written constitution, many of these executive entitlements have traditionally derived from the Royal Prerogative. This …
The Cabinet Manual and the Codification of Conventions
The UK Cabinet Manual is the latest installment in a process of defining constitutional conventions in publicly available, official documents. But constitutional conventions are often indeterminate in nature and difficult to codify. The manual and similar documents are likely to have a significant impact upon conventions through influencing perceptions of them, and making their use in judicial review more likely. But they cannot unilaterally dete…
A Federal Scotland within a Federal UK
2007 saw the three-hundredth anniversary of the Act of Union. But the event was marked by little celebration across the United Kingdom. This lack of observation in part reflects the degree of uncertainty surrounding the status of the UK. In Scotland in particular, the entry into government of the Scottish National Party has served to call into question arrangements for an asymmetrically devolved UK, and even cast doubt upon the UK's long term fut…
Harold Wilson, Labour and the Machinery of Government
Changes to the machinery of government were central to Labour's policy agenda during 1964–70, key parts of which, particularly the drive for planned economic growth, were not achieved. The reforms attempted can be placed within a long British socialist tradition, flavoured by Fabian elitism and containing intellectual contradictions. The ideological basis for the objectives being pursued, such as economic expansion, was never properly explored or…
Democratic Audit: Good Governance, Human Rights, War against Terror
Major constitutional changes from the 1980s onwards have not generally been informed by a vision of good governance, constitutionality or democratic principle. The Labour government’s reform programme since 1997 has retained central powers on which ‘elective dictatorship’ or Jack Straw’s ‘executive democracy’ depends. This article surveys the largely unconstrained use of these powers in 2003, in particular the Prime Minister’s decision to commit …
Divided Culture and Constitutional Tensions: Brexit and the Collision of Direct and Representative Democracy
This article considers connections between two aspects of Brexit: the cultural divide exposed and amplified by the European Union (EU) referendum of 23 June 2016 and the prolonged and intense period of multiple and overlapping constitutional tensions that followed the referendum. The referendum revealed the existence of two contrasting cultural groupings. Each was defined by a cluster of values that extended beyond attitudes towards the particula…
The Cabinet Manual and the Codification of Conventions
The UK Cabinet Manual is the latest installment in a process of defining constitutional conventions in publicly available, official documents. But constitutional conventions are often indeterminate in nature and difficult to codify. The manual and similar documents are likely to have a significant impact upon conventions through influencing perceptions of them, and making their use in judicial review more likely. But they cannot unilaterally dete…
Constitutional Implications of the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act 2011
The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 arose from a specific political circumstance: the need to cement the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition formed after the May 2010 General Election, but it had a far wider significance. The Act had important implications for the constitution, raising questions about the way in which it changes and the nature of its overall development. It brought about transformations long advocated by reformers. The Act re…
Harold Wilson, Labour and the Machinery of Government
Changes to the machinery of government were central to Labour's policy agenda during 1964–70, key parts of which, particularly the drive for planned economic growth, were not achieved. The reforms attempted can be placed within a long British socialist tradition, flavoured by Fabian elitism and containing intellectual contradictions. The ideological basis for the objectives being pursued, such as economic expansion, was never properly explored or…
Referendums and Ethnic Conflict
Emergency powers and the withering of the Royal Prerogative
A feature common to most governments in different time periods and places is that they possess exceptional powers applicable to emergencies. These authorities are necessary but vulnerable to abuse. Democracies seek to create and restrain such powers through constitutional texts and supplementary legislation. In the UK, lacking a written constitution, many of these executive entitlements have traditionally derived from the Royal Prerogative. This …
A Federal Scotland within a Federal UK
2007 saw the three-hundredth anniversary of the Act of Union. But the event was marked by little celebration across the United Kingdom. This lack of observation in part reflects the degree of uncertainty surrounding the status of the UK. In Scotland in particular, the entry into government of the Scottish National Party has served to call into question arrangements for an asymmetrically devolved UK, and even cast doubt upon the UK's long term fut…
Democratic Audit: Good Governance, Human Rights, War against Terror
Major constitutional changes from the 1980s onwards have not generally been informed by a vision of good governance, constitutionality or democratic principle. The Labour government’s reform programme since 1997 has retained central powers on which ‘elective dictatorship’ or Jack Straw’s ‘executive democracy’ depends. This article surveys the largely unconstrained use of these powers in 2003, in particular the Prime Minister’s decision to commit …
Harold Wilson, Labour and the Machinery of Government
Changes to the machinery of government were central to Labour's policy agenda during 1964–70, key parts of which, particularly the drive for planned economic growth, were not achieved. The reforms attempted can be placed within a long British socialist tradition, flavoured by Fabian elitism and containing intellectual contradictions. The ideological basis for the objectives being pursued, such as economic expansion, was never properly explored or…
A Federal Scotland within a Federal UK
2007 saw the three-hundredth anniversary of the Act of Union. But the event was marked by little celebration across the United Kingdom. This lack of observation in part reflects the degree of uncertainty surrounding the status of the UK. In Scotland in particular, the entry into government of the Scottish National Party has served to call into question arrangements for an asymmetrically devolved UK, and even cast doubt upon the UK's long term fut…
Emergency powers and the withering of the Royal Prerogative
A feature common to most governments in different time periods and places is that they possess exceptional powers applicable to emergencies. These authorities are necessary but vulnerable to abuse. Democracies seek to create and restrain such powers through constitutional texts and supplementary legislation. In the UK, lacking a written constitution, many of these executive entitlements have traditionally derived from the Royal Prerogative. This …
The Cabinet Manual and the Codification of Conventions
The UK Cabinet Manual is the latest installment in a process of defining constitutional conventions in publicly available, official documents. But constitutional conventions are often indeterminate in nature and difficult to codify. The manual and similar documents are likely to have a significant impact upon conventions through influencing perceptions of them, and making their use in judicial review more likely. But they cannot unilaterally dete…
Referendums and Ethnic Conflict
Constitutional Implications of the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act 2011
The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 arose from a specific political circumstance: the need to cement the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition formed after the May 2010 General Election, but it had a far wider significance. The Act had important implications for the constitution, raising questions about the way in which it changes and the nature of its overall development. It brought about transformations long advocated by reformers. The Act re…
Prime Minister and Cabinet
While British political history is frequently preoccupied with the role and actions of prime ministers and Cabinets, the formal study of those institutions remains underdeveloped. In part this is because those roles have often been imprecisely defined, and understood largely in terms of the personnel who discharged them. The value of biography, or collective biography, in analysing these subjects is therefore considered in this chapter, alongside…
Electrified Democracy: The Internet and the United Kingdom Parliament in History
The story of how the UK Parliament came to use the Internet from the 1960s onwards has never been told. Electrified Democracy places the impact of technology on parliamentary workings in its longer term historical context. The author identifies repeating patterns of perception and analysis, and cultural tendencies in the perception of inventions dating back over centuries that have reasserted themselves in connection with the parliamentary respon…
Divided Culture and Constitutional Tensions: Brexit and the Collision of Direct and Representative Democracy
This article considers connections between two aspects of Brexit: the cultural divide exposed and amplified by the European Union (EU) referendum of 23 June 2016 and the prolonged and intense period of multiple and overlapping constitutional tensions that followed the referendum. The referendum revealed the existence of two contrasting cultural groupings. Each was defined by a cluster of values that extended beyond attitudes towards the particula…
Documents on the Nineteenth Century United Kingdom Constitution: Volume II: People, Parties and Politicians
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