Governing without a Majority - Softcover

Governing Without a Majority. Dilemmas for Hung Parliaments in Britain

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Paperback Edition. Paperback. Slight browning to edge of back cover. This book is a pioneering excploration of the problems that Britain would confront if a general election produced a hung parliament. And that is far more likey than most people realise - if not at the next election, then at the election after next. The British Constitution is supposed to be based on precedent but, as this book shows, the guidance that precendents give offer no clear answer to the problems that have to be faced if there is no clear majority in Parliament. Whom should the Queen ask to form a government? Where may she seek advice as she tries to be a neutral umpire? What conditions can she impose on a potential Prime Minister? Should it be a minority government or a coalitition? Are there circumstances in which the Queen should refuse a request for a dissolution of parliament? All these questions and many more arise on a one-off basis if, by chance or through a mild increase in minor party strentgh, another hung parliament is elected as in February 1974. But, if proportional representation were to be adopted, they would become a permanent part of the British political scene: in that event it would be most unlikely for any general election to yield a clear majority: a dissolution would never produce a definite answer. This book examines what that might mean for the whole working of the political system - for parties, for ministers, and for civil servants. The consequences are ver far reaching. These pages set out in practical terms the current rules of the game for British politics - and the way in which they may have to be adapted to cope with the situations that have a high chance of occuring withing the next decade. 156 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Artikel-Nr. 082616

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