Constitutional Conventions

The Rules and Forms of Political Accountability

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19972462
AutoresDavid Hopkins (0000-0001-5521-7408), Geoffrey Marshall (autor de correspondencia)
Año1987
Páginas312
Fecha de publicación1987-01-22
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaLandowners, capitalists, and entrepreneurs (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198762027.001.0001
OpenAlexW4238623963
Open LibraryOL1077209M
ISBN9780198762027
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas55

In Britain and other commonwealth countries, it is convention rather than law that determines many crucial questions of government behavior. This timely volume examines these major conventions and practices, including rules governing the activities of the Cabinet, the Prime Minister, and the Crown; the doctrines of collective and individual responsibilities of ministers and to Parliament; and the principles of accountability applicable to public servants. The theory of convention since Dicey is explored in the first chapter. The uses of the Queen, the practice of dissolution, and the doctrine of Ministerial responsibility are the main concerns of chapters two, three, and four. Chapters five, six, and seven focus on the principles of ombudsmanship, the morality of public office, and the politics of justice and security. The status of the police, duties of the army, and the rules of the Commonwealth are then assessed in the next chapters. The last four chapters of this book concentrate on the problems of patriation, limitation of sovereignty, character of convention, and the recent developments on the conventions of accountability

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