Prime Ministerial Power in Canada

Prime Ministerial Power in Canada
Author: Patrice Dutil
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2017-06-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0774834765

Many Canadians lament that prime ministerial power has become too concentrated since the 1970s. This book contradicts this view by demonstrating how prime ministerial power was centralized from the very beginning of Confederation and that the first three important prime ministers – Macdonald, Laurier, and Borden – channelled that centralizing impulse to adapt to the circumstances they faced. Using a variety of innovative approaches, Patrice Dutil focuses on the managerial philosophies of each of the prime ministers as well as their rapport with senior public servants, resistance to genuine public sector reform, and use of orders-in-council to further their aims. He then compares their managerial habits during times of crisis to those during ordinary times. This is the first book to examine the administrative habits of these three prime ministers. In it Dutil offers revealing insights into the evolution of prime ministerial power. He also shows how this centralizing grip of these early first ministers inevitably shaped the administrations they headed, as well as those that followed.

Cabinet Government in Australia, 1901-2006

Cabinet Government in Australia, 1901-2006
Author: Patrick Moray Weller
Publisher: UNSW Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780868408743

This book presents the first comprehensive study of the development of the central institution of Australian government over the first century of its life.

Constitutional and Administrative Law

Constitutional and Administrative Law
Author: David Pollard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 974
Release: 2007-06-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 019928637X

The fourth edition of Constitutional and Administrative Law: Text with Materials provides a wealth of essential materials drawn from a wide range of sources and integrated with lively commentary. It enables students to gain a full understanding of public law by explaining the context of its historical development and current political climate.

The Powers Behind the Prime Minister

The Powers Behind the Prime Minister
Author: Dennis Kavanagh
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2008-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0007292066

How many people know what goes on in 10 Downing Street, or who built the building? Providing a portrait of the centre of a British Prime Minister's power, this book contains material on the private behaviour of the 20th century's political leaders.

The Prime Ministers

The Prime Ministers
Author: Steve Richards
Publisher:
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2020-09
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: 9781786495884

A landmark history of the men and women who have defined the UK's role in the modern world - and what makes them special - by a seasoned political journalist.

Text, Cases and Materials on Public Law and Human Rights

Text, Cases and Materials on Public Law and Human Rights
Author: Helen Fenwick
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1060
Release: 2020-12-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1135071330

This book interweaves an authoritative authorial commentary – significantly expanded from the last edition - with extracts from a diverse and contemporary collection of cases and materials from three leading academics in the field. It provides an all-encompassing student guide to constitutional, administrative and UK human rights law. This fourth edition provides comprehensive coverage of all recent developments, including the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011, restrictions on judicial review (Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015), changes to judicial appointments (Crime and Courts Act 2013), the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum, Scotland Act 2016 and draft Wales Bill 2016. Recent devolution cases in the Supreme Court, including Imperial Tobacco (2012) and Asbestos Diseases (2015) are fully analysed, as is the 2015 introduction of English Votes for English Laws. The remarkable Evans (2015) ‘Black Spider memos’ case is considered in a number of chapters. The common law rights resurgence seen in Osborn (2013), BBC (2014) and Kennedy (2014) is analysed in several places, along with other key developments in judicial review such as Keyu (2015) and Pham (2015). Ongoing parliamentary reform in both Lords and Commons, including major advances in controlling prerogative powers, are fully explained, as is the adaptation of the core Executive to Coalition Government (2010-2015). There is comprehensive coverage of key Strasbourg and HRA cases (Horncastle (2010), Nicklinson (2014), Moohan (2014), Carlile (2014)), and those in core areas of freedom of expression, police powers and public order (Animal Defenders (2013), Beghal (2015), Roberts (2015), Miranda (2016)) and the prisoners’ voting rights saga, up to Chester (2015).

Nordic, Central and Southeastern Europe 2012

Nordic, Central and Southeastern Europe 2012
Author: Wayne C. Thompson
Publisher: Stryker Post
Total Pages: 586
Release: 2012-08-09
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 161048892X

This is an annually updated presentation of each sovereign country in Nordic, Central and Southeastern Europe, past and present. It is broken down into individual chapters on each country dealing with its geography, people, history, political system, constitution, parliament, decentralization and states if a federation, parties, political leaders and elections. There are also sections on foreign and defense policy, economy, culture, future and a lengthy bibliography.