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Executive self-government and the constitution / Terence Daintith, Alan Page.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2025Edition: 1Description: vii, 446 pages. 24 cmContent type:
  • text
ISBN:
  • 9780198863540
DDC classification:
  • 342.6 DAI
Contents:
PART A. INTRODUCTION: 1:The Executive in the Constitution: Forces for Change 1997-2024 - PART B. THE STRUCTURE OF THE EXECUTIVE: 2:The Centre of Government: Bigger and Stronger? Or Just Bigger? - 3:The Ministerial Department: Making and Breaking, Structuring, Steering - 4:Public Bodies: Creation, Culling, Classification, and Patronage - 5:Devolution: From 'Devolve and Forget' to 'Protect and Respect' - PART C. THE RESOURCES OF THE EXECUTIVE: PEOPLE: 6:The Civil Service: The Continuing Failure of Reform - PART D. THE RESOURCES OF THE EXECUTIVE: MONEY: 7:Fiscal Responsibility and Expenditure Planning and Control - 8:Spending Responsibly: Expenditure Principles and Treasury Control - PART E. THE RESOURCES OF THE EXECUTIVE: LAW: 9:How Government Lawyers Advise Ministers and Manage Prosecutions - 10: Shaping Legislation, Exploiting Delegated Legislation, Reining in Regulation - PART F. THE RESOURCES OF THE EXECUTIVE: INFORMATION: 11:Government Information: Privileges, Constraints, and Obligations - 12:Government Communications: Persuasion with Propriety - PART G. CONCLUSION: 13:The Impact of 21st-Century Challenges - Bibliography - Index.
Summary: "These statements, the first from the website of Parliament itself, present a constitutional characterisation of the executive that is very different from the one traditionally offered by most United Kingdom constitutional law writing. The emphasis in that literature on parliamentary sovereignty as the supreme, if not the only, constitutional tenet, on the lack of any limit on Parliament's power to empower or restrain executive action through legislation, and on the subjection of the executive to control by the courts, made it difficult to see the executive as a distinctive 'power' under the constitution at all, and led a senior judge to remark (albeit extra-judicially) that 'the executive cannot be one of three sovereign and equal elements of the State"-- Provided by publisher.
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PART A. INTRODUCTION:
1:The Executive in the Constitution: Forces for Change 1997-2024 -
PART B. THE STRUCTURE OF THE EXECUTIVE:
2:The Centre of Government: Bigger and Stronger? Or Just Bigger? -
3:The Ministerial Department: Making and Breaking, Structuring, Steering -
4:Public Bodies: Creation, Culling, Classification, and Patronage -
5:Devolution: From 'Devolve and Forget' to 'Protect and Respect' -
PART C. THE RESOURCES OF THE EXECUTIVE: PEOPLE:
6:The Civil Service: The Continuing Failure of Reform -
PART D. THE RESOURCES OF THE EXECUTIVE: MONEY:
7:Fiscal Responsibility and Expenditure Planning and Control -
8:Spending Responsibly: Expenditure Principles and Treasury Control -
PART E. THE RESOURCES OF THE EXECUTIVE: LAW:
9:How Government Lawyers Advise Ministers and Manage Prosecutions -
10: Shaping Legislation, Exploiting Delegated Legislation, Reining in Regulation -
PART F. THE RESOURCES OF THE EXECUTIVE: INFORMATION:
11:Government Information: Privileges, Constraints, and Obligations -
12:Government Communications: Persuasion with Propriety -
PART G. CONCLUSION:
13:The Impact of 21st-Century Challenges -
Bibliography -
Index.

"These statements, the first from the website of Parliament itself, present a constitutional characterisation of the executive that is very different from the one traditionally offered by most United Kingdom constitutional law writing. The emphasis in that literature on parliamentary sovereignty as the supreme, if not the only, constitutional tenet, on the lack of any limit on Parliament's power to empower or restrain executive action through legislation, and on the subjection of the executive to control by the courts, made it difficult to see the executive as a distinctive 'power' under the constitution at all, and led a senior judge to remark (albeit extra-judicially) that 'the executive cannot be one of three sovereign and equal elements of the State"-- Provided by publisher.