Prorogation
Comparative Context and Scope for Reform
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6311985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas G Fleming (0000-0002-6241-5100, University of Oxford), Petra Schleiter (0000-0002-1150-0954, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 964-978 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Parliamentary Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-2290 • E-ISSN: 1460-2482 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pa/gsaa017 |
| OpenAlex | W3082103364 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
In August 2019, the UK government’s attempt to prorogue parliament for five weeks raised the question whether the UK’s prorogation rules ought to be reformed. We place this discussion in comparative perspective by contrasting the UK’s prorogation rules with (i) equivalent procedures in 26 European democracies and (ii) recent changes in other areas of UK executive–legislative relations. These comparisons suggest that the UK’s current prorogation rules are increasingly anomalous. They give governments significantly more power to suspend parliament than comparable European democracies, and are at variance with recent efforts to counterbalance the executive’s wide ranging discretion in the UK
Context (archaeology · Discretion · Executive power · Geography · Government (linguistics · Law and economics · Legislature · Parliament · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Representation (politics · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Ombudsman and Human Rights · Political Systems and Governance · Public Administration
Parliaments and Coalitions
The Handbook of National Legislatures
The Oxford handbook of legislative studies
Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis
Partisan-motivated prorogation and the Westminster model
Brexit and the British Constitution
Modes of UK Executive–Legislative Relations Revisited
Measuring Legislative Power
Arend Lijphart and the Transformation of Irish Democracy
Beyond committees
Trust Is Good, Control Is Better
The Changing Confidence Relationship Between the UK Executive and Parliament in Comparative Context
Never Allow A Crisis To Go To Waste
Select Committee Reform
The Decline of Majoritarianism in the UK and the Fixed-term Parliaments Act
Does the Executive Dominate the Westminster Legislative Process
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |