Party, Parliament and Personality: Essays Presented to Hugh Berrington

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Notes on contributors......Page 9
1  Introduction......Page 11
2  Hugh Berrington: a profile and an appreciation......Page 19
REFERENCES......Page 27
3  Democracy and disagreement......Page 28
PREFERENCE AGGREGATION IN THE WESTMINSTER MODEL......Page 32
SOME NORMATIVE ISSUES......Page 37
SOCIAL CHOICE AND CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM......Page 42
REFERENCES......Page 43
4  The awkward art of reconciliation......Page 44
THE DEFECTOR-LOYALIST PUZZLE......Page 60
THE EUROPEAN ISSUE......Page 63
PERCEPTIONS OF LABOUR’S PROSPECTS......Page 65
THE IMPACT OF DESELECTION......Page 66
RELATIONS WITH THE LOCAL PARTY......Page 67
THE PERSONAL FACTOR: FINANCIAL PROSPECTS......Page 70
THE PERSONAL FACTOR: ROOTS IN THE LABOUR MOVEMENT......Page 72
CONCLUSIONS......Page 75
APPENDIX: POTENTIAL RECRUITS TO SDP WHO REMAINED IN THE LABOUR PARTY......Page 76
NOTES......Page 78
REFERENCES......Page 81
INTRODUCTION......Page 82
TRADITIONAL PARTY POSITIONS......Page 83
The Labour Party......Page 84
The Conservative Party......Page 88
CONCLUSION......Page 92
REFERENCES......Page 93
7  The industrial privatisation programmes of Britain and France......Page 95
CONVERGENT PRESSURES......Page 96
THE PROGRAMMATIC RESPONSE......Page 98
THE CONDITIONS FOR RADICAL POLICY-MAKING......Page 101
THE DIFFERENCES......Page 105
EXPLAINING THE DIFFERENCES......Page 107
SOME GENERAL CONCLUSIONS......Page 110
REFERENCES......Page 111
INTRODUCTION......Page 114
IN QUEEN VICTORIA’S GLORIOUS DAYS......Page 115
BACKBENCH AND SON OF BACKBENCH......Page 118
OTHER ROLLCALL VOTING STUDIES IN BRITAIN......Page 123
PROSPECTS AND CONCLUSION......Page 124
REFERENCES......Page 129
9  Members of Parliament and issues of conscience......Page 132
WHY ARE FREE VOTES HELD?......Page 135
WHY OUGHT THERE TO BE FREE VOTES?......Page 137
The Burkean ideal......Page 143
Linking parliamentary and public opinion......Page 146
CONCLUSION......Page 148
NOTES......Page 149
REFERENCES......Page 150
10  Parliamentary sovereignty and public opinion1......Page 152
IS THERE A PROBLEM OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN BRITAIN?......Page 153
THE DOCTRINE OF PARLIAMENTARY SOVEREIGNTY......Page 157
ALTERNATIVE CHECKS AND BALANCES......Page 159
UNELECTED, UNREPRESENTATIVE AND UNACCOUNTABLE......Page 160
NOTES......Page 163
REFERENCES......Page 164
Modernising Italian politics......Page 165
Interpreting corruption......Page 166
The liberal state......Page 168
The republican state......Page 169
The institutionalization of corruption and the judicial response......Page 171
The collapse......Page 172
EXPLANATIONS OF SYSTEMATIC CORRUPTION......Page 173
Institutional incentives......Page 174
The weakness of normative sanctions......Page 176
NOTES......Page 181
REFERENCES......Page 183
INTRODUCTION......Page 185
THOMAS HOBBES (1588–1679)......Page 186
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU (1712–78)......Page 192
CONCLUSION......Page 202
REFERENCES......Page 203
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS......Page 205
SELECTED UNPUBLISHED PAPERS......Page 207
Index......Page 208