Executive self-government and the constitution /

This text offers a constitutional lawyer's insight into the UK executive government's internal workings, showing how its institutions and systems have operated and evolved over the past 25 years. Has this testing period changed its constitutional profile, its concern to protect its autonom...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Daintith, Terence (Author), Page, Alan (Alan C.) (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Subjects:	Executive power > Great Britain. Constitutional law > Great Britain. Administrative agencies > Great Britain. Great Britain > Politics and government > 1997-2007. Great Britain > Politics and government > 2007- Administration publique > Grande-Bretagne. Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1997-2007. Droit constitutionnel > Grande-Bretagne. LAW. Government. Constitutions. POLITICAL SCIENCE. Administrative agencies Great Britain Public administration. Politics and Government. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

The executive in the constitution : forces for change 1997-2024
The centre of government : bigger and stronger? or just bigger?
The ministerial department : making and breaking, structuring, steering
Public bodies : creation, culling, classification, and patronage
Devolution : from 'devolve and forget' to 'protect and respect'
The civil service : the continuing failure of reform
Fiscal responsibility and expenditure planning and control
Spending responsibly : expenditure principles and treasury control
How government lawyers advise ministers and manage prosecutions
Shaping legislation, exploiting delegated legislation, reining in regulation
Government information : privileges, constraints, and obligations
Government communications : persuasion with propriety
The impact of 21st-century challenges.