Hugh Bochel
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 381700 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Hugh Bochel |
| PRENOMES | Hugh |
| SOBRENOME | Bochel |
| ASSINATURA | BOCHEL H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Lincoln |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4580-6035 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 175 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
House of Commons Public Bill Committees and Oral Evidence
The introduction of evidence sessions for House of Commons public bill committees in 2007, including oral evidence from witnesses, was widely seen as a potentially significant improvement in informing scrutiny of legislation. Drawing on interviews with officials and witnesses, and on data gathered from Hansard for the 2017–2019 session, this article examines the selection and some of the characteristics of witnesses, witnesses’ views of the proce…
Committees and Witnesses in the Scottish Parliament
The committees of the Scottish Parliament play an important role in scrutinising the legislation and policies of the Scottish Government, and indeed the work of other organisations. A key element of that task is gathering evidence, including from those who appear as witnesses, yet relatively little has been written about that work. This article draws upon an analysis of committee witnesses and interviews with MSPs and officials to provide further…
Parliamentary committee witnesses
Issues of diversity in elected bodies have received considerable attention in recent years, in particular with regard to the characteristics of elected representatives. This article explores a rather different dimension relating to representation and diversity, the witnesses that appear before parliamentary committees in their scrutiny of government actions and legislation. It draws on Pitkin and Saward’s conceptions of representation and the cas…
Disability and social policy
This chapter critically explores the factors that have shaped policies for disabled and chronically sick people over time. It provides a policy typology that summarises historic developments and then considers post-war developments in substantive policy for disabled people. It argues that although conceptually policy frameworks have become much more progressive, the impact of policy change has been much more limited. It highlights the fact that d…
Social Policy
A Place at the Table? Parliamentary Committees, Witnesses and the Scrutiny of Government Actions and Legislation
Issues of diversity in elected bodies have been highlighted in recent years, both with regard to elected representatives themselves, and, more recently, in respect of the treatment of those working in such institutions, especially women. This article focuses on another aspect of diversity, inequality and representation, the voices heard by parliamentary committees in their scrutiny of government actions and legislation. The article discusses the …
Assessing policy success and failure
Assessing policy success and failure is a significant challenge. This article seeks to address this by utilizing two case studies of legislation from the United Kingdom Parliament, the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 and the Academies Act 2010, so as to develop a nuanced understanding of how and in what ways policies have been successful, or otherwise. Drawing on these two case studies, and the work of a variety of authors, the article illustrates…
Evidence-informed or value-based? exploring the scrutiny of legislation in the UK Parliament
This article argues that three types of factor – process, subject and political circumstance – are likely to affect the extent to which claims of evidence are made during legislative scrutiny. It draws upon case studies of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998, the Academies Act 2010 and the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016, utilising interviews with those involved and information from Hansard. The article concludes that these cases highlight that w…
The Careers of Councillors
This title was first published in 2000: Drawing on a variety of research, including two surveys of councillors undertaken in Scotland, England and Wales, qualitative interviews and the re-analysis of existing data, this book aims to contribute towards research on local government councillors by exploring and developing the idea of "careers" of elected councillors and by examining their ambitions and the types of posts held during their period of …
‘Reaching in’? The potential for e-petitions in local government in the United Kingdom
This article considers the extent to which petitions and e-petitions might allow citizens to ‘reach in’ to local authorities in the United Kingdom. It examines how e-petitions sit against wider debates about the use of technology and digital democracy and the extent to which petitions systems might align with traditional approaches to representative democracy. It highlights that, as with many other participative initiatives, digital or otherwise,…
The Coalition Government and Social Policy
The Coalition Government and Social Policy
How did the UK Coalition Government’s policies differ from previous Conservative (or Labour) Government policies? How did the Liberal Democrats influence them? And what can this tell us about the likely policy direction of the Conservative government elected in May 2015? Responding to the political and social policy changes made between 2010-15 this book considers the relationship between the two coalition parties to provide a critical assessment…
Coalition Government and Social Policy
Coalition Government and Social Policy
Whatever happened to compassionate Conservatism under the Coalition government
Women Candidates and Councillors in Scottish Local Government, 1974–2012
While significant attention has been paid to the levels of representation of women in both the Westminster Parliament and the Scottish Parliament, much less consideration has been given to the position within local government. This article addresses that deficit for Scotland. It shows that for twenty-five years following the reorganisation of local government in Scotland in 1974 there was a slow but relatively steady increase in the numbers of fe…
New Mechanisms of Independent Accountability
Oversight of intelligence and security agencies has become of significant interest in recent years. In the United Kingdom the principal mechanism for providing parliamentary oversight of the agencies is the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC). However, until 2013 the ISC was a constitutional anomaly: as a statutory committee appointed by the Prime Minister it was a committee of parliamentarians, but not a committee of Parliament. In recent …
Scotland Decides
Mixed Messages for (Some) Parties
This article draws upon the collection and analysis of the results of Scotland's council elections in May 2012. It examines a number of features of those elections including voter turnout, patterns of candidature (such as party and gender), party support and seats won and lost. It also considers the use of the single transferable vote in these elections, the second in Scotland to use that electoral system
A More Representative Chamber
Since 1997 there has been substantive reform of the House of Lords in an effort to make the chamber ‘more democratic and more representative’. Whilst the Labour government failed to press ahead with any of the proposed plans for further reform following the removal of the bulk of the hereditary peers in 1999, it remained committed to the notion that such reform must make the second chamber ‘more representative’. The coalition government's program…
The Conservative Party and social policy
In Britain, after three successive general election defeats and five leaders since 1997, under David Cameron, and now Con-Lib government there appears to have been a significant shift in the Conservative party's positions across a range of areas, including many social policy issues. At the same time, other changes since 1997 mean that the policy environment is considerably different from when the Conservatives were last in government. These inclu…
The Conservative Party and social policy
One Nation Conservatism and social policy, 1951–64
This article considers the nature and development of One Nation Conservatism during the period most closely associated with the term. It draws on the original writings of the One Nation Group and the policies pursued by the Conservative governments of the time to suggest that the ideas of the One Nation Group were not as closely linked with Conservative policies as is sometimes implied. Indeed, the views of members of the One Nation Group varied …
Power without Representation? The House of Lords and Social Policy
In the past the House of Lords has generally, and arguably for good reasons, been ignored in discussions of the making and scrutiny of welfare. However, it has always played some role in this field, particularly in the scrutiny and passage of legislation, and since the removal of the bulk of hereditary Peers in 1999, some writers have argued that the House has become more assertive. This article examines the attitudes of Peers, including a compar…
Safe as Houses? Conservative Social Policy, Public Opinion and Parliament
Social policy is of key importance to contemporary society, accounting for two thirds of public expenditure and, through provision such as the NHS, pensions, benefits, schools, universities and social care, touching on the lives of much of the population on a daily basis. It has also been one of the areas where the Conservative party have sought to change their image, and to some extent policies, under David Cameron. Drawing upon a range of evide…
Partisanship, national identity and constitutional preferences
Local Political Leadership and the Modernisation of Local Government
Political leadership has been a key element of central government’s attempts to ‘modernise’ local government over the past decade, within a discourse that emphasised ‘strong’ and ‘visible’ leadership and the role of leaders and leadership in driving change within local authorities. In the context of such an approach, and also taking account of academic discourse, this article draws upon interviews with nearly thirty individuals in leadership posi…
Marginalised or Enabled Voices? ‘User Participation’ in Policy and Practice
The idea of participation has been central to many policy developments in recent years. Both Conservative and Labour governments have used notions of participation and involvement in attempts to justify and implement their social policies. Yet, despite a plethora of initiatives and guidance around ‘participation’ emerging from all levels of government, and a substantial academic literature, there remains a major, and potentially damaging, lack of…
Women 'Leaders' in Local Government in the UK
This article draws upon research undertaken in the United Kingdom in 2006 which examined aspects of the ‘leadership’ roles and functions of female and male councillors. The article highlights the continued under representation of women in terms of the proportion of councillors who are women, and the ‘gender gap’ that exists in terms of council leadership and the portfolios that men and women hold on council cabinets or executives. It moves on to …
A More Representative Chamber
Since 1997 there has been substantive reform of the House of Lords in an effort to make the chamber ‘more democratic and more representative’. Whilst the Labour government failed to press ahead with any of the proposed plans for further reform following the removal of the bulk of the hereditary peers in 1999, it remained committed to the notion that such reform must make the second chamber ‘more representative’. The coalition government's program…
Minor Parties and Independents in Times of Change
This article explores the electoral performance of minor party and Independent candidates in Scottish local elections from 1974 to 2007. This is a period which began with a major restructuring of local government and ended with a change in the electoral system from first-past-the-post to the single transferable vote. It encompasses a second restructuring in the 1990s, the consolidation of the Scottish National Party as an electoral force, and the…
A Quiet Revolution
This article examines the introduction of the single transferable vote for the Scottish council elections of 2007. It suggests that the new system had a variety of effects barely-noticed by the media – there was, indeed, a quiet revolution – and that these will resonate in Scottish local government and politics for a long time to come
A Question of Expertise
The expertise of its members is often cited as one of the distinctive features of the House of Lords. In particular it is frequently argued that because of its composition, and in particular the existence of the Crossbench Peers, debates in the Lords are more informed than in the Commons. Peers, it has been claimed, bring professional experience and expertise to the scrutiny of legislation, and have the time to maintain their expertise, in contra…
Exploring the Low Levels of Women's Representation in Japanese Local Government
Although women have consistently outvoted men in elections in Japan since the 1970s, the country has a relatively poor record in terms of women being elected to representative bodies. In recent years, there have been increases, particularly in the number of women in the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors, but at the local level the rate of change has been slower.As in other states, a number of propositions have been put forward…
The 1997 Scottish Referendum
Referendums are rare events in the United Kingdom. Only one UK-wide referendum has been held - on membership of the European Community (as it then was) in 1975 - and before 1997 there had been only three other significant referendums: in 1973, in Northern Ireland, on the constitutional position of the province, and in 1979, in Scotland and Wales, on proposals for devolution. Thus the scarcity of cases available for study in itself makes the 1997 …
Housing
Until the late 1980s community care was traditionally the preserve of the health and social care agencies that dominated the planning and provision of care. Since then it has increasingly been recognized that housing should also play a major role in community care. This has been apparent in official guidance and statements, in some of the more innovative forms of community care provision, and in some of the academic literature. Yet the advancemen…
A Place at the Table? Parliamentary Committees, Witnesses and the Scrutiny of Government Actions and Legislation
Issues of diversity in elected bodies have been highlighted in recent years, both with regard to elected representatives themselves, and, more recently, in respect of the treatment of those working in such institutions, especially women. This article focuses on another aspect of diversity, inequality and representation, the voices heard by parliamentary committees in their scrutiny of government actions and legislation. The article discusses the …
Assessing policy success and failure
Assessing policy success and failure is a significant challenge. This article seeks to address this by utilizing two case studies of legislation from the United Kingdom Parliament, the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 and the Academies Act 2010, so as to develop a nuanced understanding of how and in what ways policies have been successful, or otherwise. Drawing on these two case studies, and the work of a variety of authors, the article illustrates…
Against the System? Women in Elected Local Government in Japan
Despite having a high level of voting by women, Japan has a poor record of female representation in elected government at both central and local levels. This article examines the position in local government and seeks to explore a number of possible explanations for the situation. It draws upon both theoretical and empirical work and identifies a variety of cultural, social and political barriers to women seeking election for local government. Th…
The 1997 Devolution Referendum in Scotland
Journal Article The 1997 Devolution Referendum in Scotland Get access JAMES MITCHELL, JAMES MITCHELL Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DAVID DENVER, DAVID DENVER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar CHARLES PATTIE, CHARLES PATTIE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar HUGH BOCHEL HUGH BOCHEL *The authors are respectively Senior Lecturer in…
Public Opinion, Party Policy and MPs' Attitudes to Welfare
Evidence-informed or value-based? exploring the scrutiny of legislation in the UK Parliament
This article argues that three types of factor – process, subject and political circumstance – are likely to affect the extent to which claims of evidence are made during legislative scrutiny. It draws upon case studies of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998, the Academies Act 2010 and the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016, utilising interviews with those involved and information from Hansard. The article concludes that these cases highlight that w…
New Mechanisms of Independent Accountability
Oversight of intelligence and security agencies has become of significant interest in recent years. In the United Kingdom the principal mechanism for providing parliamentary oversight of the agencies is the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC). However, until 2013 the ISC was a constitutional anomaly: as a statutory committee appointed by the Prime Minister it was a committee of parliamentarians, but not a committee of Parliament. In recent …
Public and Parliamentary Attitudes to Welfare
One of the core functions of parliament in the United Kingdom is arguably to represent the views of the people. While opinions differ as to the precise nature of this representation, one would expect to find a broad measure of comparability between public opinion and the opinions of those representing the public in parliament. This article examines the extent to which shifts in political attitudes towards the welfare state have been reflected in …
Attitudes to Welfare Policy in the House of Commons
Mps' Influence on Welfare Policy
MPS' INFLUENCE ON WELFARE POLICY Get access Hugh Bochel, Hugh Bochel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Peter Taylor-Gooby Peter Taylor-Gooby Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 41, Issue 2, April 1988, Pages 209–217, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052142 Published: 01 April 1988
Committees and Witnesses in the Scottish Parliament
The committees of the Scottish Parliament play an important role in scrutinising the legislation and policies of the Scottish Government, and indeed the work of other organisations. A key element of that task is gathering evidence, including from those who appear as witnesses, yet relatively little has been written about that work. This article draws upon an analysis of committee witnesses and interviews with MSPs and officials to provide further…
Parliamentary committee witnesses
Issues of diversity in elected bodies have received considerable attention in recent years, in particular with regard to the characteristics of elected representatives. This article explores a rather different dimension relating to representation and diversity, the witnesses that appear before parliamentary committees in their scrutiny of government actions and legislation. It draws on Pitkin and Saward’s conceptions of representation and the cas…
The Careers of Councillors
This title was first published in 2000: Drawing on a variety of research, including two surveys of councillors undertaken in Scotland, England and Wales, qualitative interviews and the re-analysis of existing data, this book aims to contribute towards research on local government councillors by exploring and developing the idea of "careers" of elected councillors and by examining their ambitions and the types of posts held during their period of …
Whatever happened to compassionate Conservatism under the Coalition government
Mps' Attitudes and the Future of Welfare
Public Opinion, Party Policy and MPs' Attitudes to Welfare
Attitudes to Welfare Policy in the House of Commons
Mps' Influence on Welfare Policy
MPS' INFLUENCE ON WELFARE POLICY Get access Hugh Bochel, Hugh Bochel Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Peter Taylor-Gooby Peter Taylor-Gooby Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 41, Issue 2, April 1988, Pages 209–217, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052142 Published: 01 April 1988
Siteless in Essex — A survey of travelling people
The Last Act
From one perspective the latest round of elections to the Scottish Regional Councils, which took place on May Sth 1994, were meaningless. Over most of the country, voters were being asked to elect councils which will shortly be abolished as part the government's proposed reorganisation of local government in Scotland. Indeed, the elections were fought on the basis of newly revised electoral divisions which will themselves soon cease to have any m…
Merger or Bust
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) was perhaps the nearest thing to a ‘flash’ party seen in British politics in modern times. It was formed in March 1981, largely on the initiative of four leading figures in the Labour party (Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Shirley Williams and William Rogers), following the apparent success of the left in dominating the party, and initially it had a sensational impact on British politics. It had thirty MPs by March 1982…
Catastrophe for the Conservatives
The 1997 Scottish Referendum
Referendums are rare events in the United Kingdom. Only one UK-wide referendum has been held - on membership of the European Community (as it then was) in 1975 - and before 1997 there had been only three other significant referendums: in 1973, in Northern Ireland, on the constitutional position of the province, and in 1979, in Scotland and Wales, on proposals for devolution. Thus the scarcity of cases available for study in itself makes the 1997 …
Scotland's Councillors 1974-1995
The devolution referendums in Scotland
The 1997 Scottish devolution referendum produced a decisive vote in favour of home rule, after a campaign involving issues that went beyond normal party politics
The 1997 Devolution Referendum in Scotland
Journal Article The 1997 Devolution Referendum in Scotland Get access JAMES MITCHELL, JAMES MITCHELL Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DAVID DENVER, DAVID DENVER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar CHARLES PATTIE, CHARLES PATTIE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar HUGH BOCHEL HUGH BOCHEL *The authors are respectively Senior Lecturer in…
Settled will or divided society? Voting in the 1997 Scottish and Welsh devolution referendums
At least partly because they appear to undermine the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty, referendums have been rare events in the United Kingdom. The only UK-wide referendum was in 1975 (on membership of the European Community) and before 1997 there had been only three other significant sub-national referendums - in Northern Ireland (1973) and in Scotland and Wales on proposals for devolution (1979). The election of a Labour government in 1997…
Housing
Until the late 1980s community care was traditionally the preserve of the health and social care agencies that dominated the planning and provision of care. Since then it has increasingly been recognized that housing should also play a major role in community care. This has been apparent in official guidance and statements, in some of the more innovative forms of community care provision, and in some of the academic literature. Yet the advancemen…
Partisanship, national identity and constitutional preferences
The Forgotten Elections
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Themed Section on the Policy Process and Social Policy
Despite the frequent comparisons and discussions of continuity between the Conservatives' social policies and those of New Labour, it is certainly true that the mechanisms which each has used to develop and implement social policy have been rhetorically, and often practically, different. Under the Conservatives the emphasis on markets and marketisation, with the centrality of the 'consumer', was reflected in social policy including through device…
Against the System? Women in Elected Local Government in Japan
Despite having a high level of voting by women, Japan has a poor record of female representation in elected government at both central and local levels. This article examines the position in local government and seeks to explore a number of possible explanations for the situation. It draws upon both theoretical and empirical work and identifies a variety of cultural, social and political barriers to women seeking election for local government. Th…
The UK Social Policy Process
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The Last Post’ For First-Past-The-Post? The 2003 Scottish Council Elections
The third round of elections for the 32 unitary Scottish local councils established in 1995 took place on May 1st 2003. As in the previous round in 1999, these were held on the same day as the Scottish Parliament elections. Whereas in Wales council elections were postponed in order to avoid a clash with elections for the National Assembly, the Scottish Executive apparently took the view that the inevitable overshadowing of the local elections by …
Modernisation or Backward Step? Women Councillors and New Decision-Making Structures in Local Government
Following the 1997 general election New Labour took power with a commitment to ‘modernising’ government, including local government. This modernisation was based upon a variety of approaches including the introduction of new decision-making structures, improving local democracy, improving local financial accountability, creating a new ethical framework for councillors and council employees and improving local services. It is with the first two of…
Exploring the Low Levels of Women's Representation in Japanese Local Government
Although women have consistently outvoted men in elections in Japan since the 1970s, the country has a relatively poor record in terms of women being elected to representative bodies. In recent years, there have been increases, particularly in the number of women in the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors, but at the local level the rate of change has been slower.As in other states, a number of propositions have been put forward…
Welfare policy under New LabourViews from inside Westminster
Based on an extensive series of interviews with MPs and Peers from across Parliament, this book traces the dynamics of political debate on welfare both between and within parties; assesses the emergence of a new political consensus on welfare; details the welfare policy environment and the reform of Parliament under Labour; examines the extent to which MPs support developments in welfare policy; provides the most detailed assessment to date of MP…
Welfare policy under New Labour
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