Download or read book Power on the Back Benches written by Derek Hawes and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are back-bench MPs snatching back power and influence through the select committee system? This study looks in depth at the committee system and offers an account of its development and relationship to other aspects of the policy process.
Download or read book How to be an MP written by Paul Flynn and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best summer reads 2015 John Crace, Guardian Not for everyone the title of Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary or other such hallowed callings; the vast majority of the House of Commons is made up of backbenchers – the power behind the constitutionally elected throne. Here is a guide for anyone and everyone fascinated by the quirks and foibles of Westminster Palace, covering all species of backbencher and providing every hardworking MP and political enthusiast with the know-how to survive life in Parliament. From how to address the crowd, weather marital troubles and socialise at party conference to the all important Backbenchers' Commandments, How to Be an MP is indispensable reading for anyone wishing to make a mark from the back bench and influence proceedings in the House. And in the process it provides the outsider with a riveting insight into life as a Member. - An unique guide to being a Member of Parliament. - Essential reading for MPs and a fascinating account of life and work in the world's oldest Parliament. - Has sold 5,000 units since first publication in 2012. - Foreword by Speaker John Bercow.
Download or read book Get Off the Bench written by Sidney E. Fuchs and published by Advantage Media Group. This book was released on 2012 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create Value Through Relationships Are you someone who gets off the bench and into the game by realizing the value and importance of people and networking, or do you stay on the bench and on the sidelines altogether? Strategic networking will help you create powerful relationships, achieve goals, and most importantly, give you the opportunity to help those in need. Get off the Bench takes you through stories, concepts, techniques, and numerous examples of how strategic networking is accomplished, what is to be avoided, and how value is created for everyone involved. As technology, globalization, and world events continually drive for and demand more connectivity, building and maintaining a powerful network is more important than it has ever been.
Download or read book Corridors Of Power written by C.P. Snow and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-01-16 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The corridors and committee rooms of Whitehall are the setting for the ninth in the Strangers and Brothers series. They are also home to the manipulation of political power. Roger Quaife wages his ban-the-bomb campaign from his seat in the Cabinet and his office at the Ministry.
Download or read book Complete Public Law written by Lisa Webley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Complete Public Law' combines extracts from key primary and secondary materials with jargon-free text to provide a resource for the student new to the study of constitutional and administrative law.
Download or read book Iron Age and Hardware Iron and Industrial Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Labour Takes Power written by Denis MacShane and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the strong possibility of Labour forming our next government, it is fascinating to consider the last time the party stood on the verge of power, back in 1997. At that time, future Europe Minister Denis MacShane had a ringside seat that he would occupy for the next decade or so, living through Cool Britannia, the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Mandelson's multiple resignations, Princess Diana's death and Tony Blair's seeming invincibility. New Labour may be remembered as an unstoppable force, but MacShane's diaries reveal that while, outwardly, all seemed to be going well, the personal rivalries, slights and petty jealousies between the party's big beasts meant that it was never far from disaster. MacShane was a regular in Downing Street from the moment of Labour's election victory, and his candid, intimate diaries show figures such as Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Robin Cook, Peter Mandelson, Clare Short and Alastair Campbell in a light in which they've never been seen before, detailing the personalities as much as the politics of Labour's most successful stint in government.
Download or read book Where Power Lies written by Lance Price and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain has one of the oldest and most developed democracies on earth. It is admired and copied the world over. Yet at home British politics is frequently viewed with a mixture of derision and contempt. Why? Our democratic system may be mature but the politicians we elect and the media we rely on to tell us what they are up to often behave like difficult teenagers, calling each other names, arguing for the sake of argument and pointing the finger of blame rather than accepting responsibility. Little wonder that the public switches off, tired of all the racket and fed up with the lot of them. How did we get into this sorry state, or was it ever thus? With first-hand experience of the worlds of both journalism and politics, Lance Price looks back over almost a century of battles between the media and our political leaders to find out who is to blame. He exposes liars in Downing Street and scoundrels in Fleet Street, bullies and megalomaniacs in both. There are many wiser heads, too, who see the madness and try to find a better way of doing things. Yet are all in pursuit of the same objective? Power. They want power over each other and power over the rest of us. It is a battle without end and too often the truth is the first casualty. Where Power Liesis the story of how powerful men and women have tried for generations to twist the facts to their own ends. It puts the struggle for supremacy between journalists and politicians into perspective. And it offers a glimmer of hope for a future in which both sides grow up, learn to respect each other and trust the rest of us with that most precious of all commodities, the truth.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 1890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Parliamentary Parties written by Jack Brand and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Jack Brand examines the role of the British Conservative and Labour parliamentary parties in the development of government policy since 1945. Focusing on six major policy fields: agriculture, education, housing, defence, the economy, and Scottish affairs, he argues that the influence of back-benchers has been consistently underestimated, and that the close interdependence of front-and back-benchers frequently produces surprising and significant effects on policy development. Dr. Brand concludes that the common perception of back-benchers as powerless to affect the policies of their leaders is misleading, and that they are essential to the development of government policy.
Download or read book Machinery written by Fred Herbert Colvin and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Problems of American Small Business written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Study Problems of American Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Power Changes Hands written by Paul ''t Hart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we strengthen the capacity of governments and parties to manage arrivals and departures at the top? Democracy requires reliable processes for the transfer of power from one generation of leaders to the next. This book introduces new analytical frameworks and presents the latest empirical evidence from comparative political research.
Download or read book The Politics of Parliamentary Procedure written by Kari Palonen and published by Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Currently, parliament as a political institution does not enjoy the best reputation. This book aims to recover less known political resources of the parliamentary mode of proceeding. The parliamentary procedure relies on regulating debates in a fair way and on constructing opposed perspectives on the agenda items. The British House of Commons provides the closest historical approximation for the parliamentary ideal type of politics. This book deals with the formation and conceptual change in the Westminster procedure, based on the way they are interpreted in the tracts on procedure. The tracts illustrate the changing parliamentary self-understanding from the 1570s to the present and the growing political role of procedural disputes. The parliamentary style of politics, as discussed in the tracts, can be divided into two genres: the politics of agenda-setting and the politics of debate. The book analyses their formation and overall conceptual change as well as the procedural responses to the increasingly scarce parliamentary time from the period after the 1832 parliamentary reform. It insists that in spite of claims on urgency and on government’s leadership the procedural resources of the House of Commons contribute to maintaining the debate-centred parliamentary style of politics.
Download or read book Churchill and Sea Power written by Christopher M. Bell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the leader's record as a naval strategist and his impact on naval power, seeking to debunk misconceptions about his failed campaigns and devasting losses during both World Wars.
Download or read book Power Competition and the State written by K. Middlemas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An extraordinarily rich and suggestive work, full of illuminating asides and thought-provoking insights, backed by a formidable mastery of detail. This is a magnificent achievement.' David Marquand In the forefront of contemporary history, this volume displays the same breadth, originality and innovation as the first. The start of intense rivalry between industry, trade unions and the financial sector, to influence policy in postwar Britain, increased in the late 1950s. Macmillan's government succeeded briefly in restoring some of the original wartime consensus after 1961, only to see hopes for Conservative planning wither. Competition among interest groups to settle how the national interest should be defined made Wilson's attempt to create a Labour planned economy almost impossible. Despite the spur of relative decline, modernisation always fell far short of politicians' aims, putting in doubt the ability of even a modern state to achieve its ambitions. A series of crises exposed promises of breakthrough into growth, which governments blamed on the self-interest of institutions - without whose co-operation they still believed they could not govern.
Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by New Zealand. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
