Publications
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The Politics of Coalition How the Conservative-Lib Dem Government Works Robert Hazell and Ben Yong (Hart, forthcoming 2012) The Politics of Coalition tells how the Coalition has fared in the different arenas of the British
political system: at the Centre; within the Departments; in Parliament;
in the parties outside Parliament, and in the media. It will be of
interest to politicians, policy makers, academics, students and anyone
interested in how the UK coalition works in practice and not just in
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Does FOI Work? The Impact of the Freedom of Information Act on Central Government in the UK Robert Hazell, Ben Worthy and Mark Glover (Palgrave, August 2010) This book is the first systematic evaluation of FOI anywhere in the world. It evaluates the performance of the Act against its objectives, and its impact on Whitehall. The book draws upon evidence from interviews with officials, plus FOI requesters and journalists as well as stories in the national press. Each chapter draws on case studies to make particular points and bring the study to life. It also compares developments in the UK to those in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland. |
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Thomas Christiansen and Christine Reh. Constitutionalizing the European
Union. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. This new book by Thomas Christiansen and Christine Reh is published by Palgrave Macmillan in its European Union Series. The book offers an in-depth and systematic account of the formal and informal dynamics of constitution building in Europe from the 1950s to the present day. It analyses the nature of this process and looks in detail at the informal and incremental elements of constitutionalization, at the formal mechanism of treaty reform, and at the more recent, explicit attempt to create a “European Constitution”. The authors introduce the various actors involved in this process, discuss the structural opportunities and constraints of constitutional choice, and take the reader through the stages of EU treaty reform from agenda-setting to ratification. Having charted the trajectory of constitutionalization over time, the authors conclude with a discussion of recent developments and an outlook towards the EU’s constitutional future. |
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Constitutional Futures Revisited: Britain's Constitution to 2020.
Robert Hazell's latest book, written by a team of leading political
scientists and lawyers, forecasts the impact of all the recent
constitutional reforms on the UK's key political institutions, and the
constitution as a whole. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 |
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President George W. Bush's Influence over Bureaucracy and Policy: Extraordinary Times, Extraordinary Powers (The Evolving American Presidency) by Colin Provost. Palgrave Macmillan (March 31, 2009). |
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Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2008. Read more about this book. |
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Sherrill Stroschein, ed., Governance in Ethnically Mixed Cities. London: Routledge, 2007. This collection of original essays breaks new ground by examining the dynamics of ethnic politics at the local level, rather than following in the footsteps of many previous studies which focus on the macropolitical level of states and nations. Each contribution is based on extensive fieldwork and local observation, providing perspectives from a range of academic disciplines including Political Science, Geography, and Anthropology. It also covers a variety of geographic areas, from the Middle East (Kirkuk, Haifa, and Tel Aviv-Jaffa) to Europe (Mostar, Bolzano, Toulouse, and Florence), Central Asia (Osh in Kyrgyzstan) and the United States (Durham, North Carolina). In spite of the variety of disciplinary approaches and the geographic diversity of the case studies, the contributing authors uncover a number of common elements of local ethnopolitical dynamics in mixed cities: the power of informal institutions, the effect of numerical balances between groups on local politics, and the significance of local competition for material and symbolic resources. Each of these areas provides a promising avenue for future research. |
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Political Constitutionalism: A Republican Defence of the Constitutionality of Democracy, Cambridge University Press, 2007. |
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Cecile Laborde's new book, Critical Republicanism. The Hijab Controversy and Political Philosophy has just been published in the Oxford Political Theory series at Oxford University Press. |
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David Hudson co-edited this volume which provides a wide-ranging discussion of both the potential and the problems arising from the application of multi-level governance literature to the monetary and financial domain. Routledge 2005; reprinted in paperback 2008. |
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Mapping Communicable Disease Control Administration in the UK - David Rowland This report is part of the Nuffield Trust grant to UCL entitled the ‘changing nature of the state in health’ and focuses on the impact of devolution in the UK and the increased Europeanisation of the health sector on the UK NHS. The report sets out the impact that devolution and Europeanisation have had on the structure of communicable disease control in the UK. It raises important questions about the co-ordination of this important function in the context of multi-level governance and examines the new administrative innovations which have resulted from the devolution of power within the UK. |
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The Legalization of Human Rights Multidisciplinary Perspectives - Saladin Meckled-Garcia and Basak Çali This text scrutinizes the extent to which legal codification shapes the human rights ideal, and surveys its ethical, political and practical repercussions. How does the law influence what we think about rights? What more is there to such rights than their legal protection? To what extent is legal concept of rights, their holders, those responsible for thier protection, in line with the moral concept the law is supposed to codify? This book introduces a new concept and phenomenon: "Legalization", a process by which legal codification and specification is taken to determine the boundaries of a concept to the exclusion of other practices and disciplines. The text goes on to discuss the consequences of this phenomenon." |
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Business and Government: Methods and Practice - David Coen and Wyn Grant This is the third volume in "The World of Political Science" book series sponsored by Research Committee 33 on The Study of Political Science as a Discipline (RC 33), one of about 50 Research Committees of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). |
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Building New Labour: The Politics of Party Organisation - Meg Russell 'New' Labour was defined in part by wide-ranging reforms to the party's internal democracy. These included changes to how candidates and leaders are selected, changes to policy making processes, and a programme of 'quotas' that transformed women's representation in the party. |
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The Dynamics of Devolution - Alan Trench "The State of the Nations is part of a considered and authoritive long-term academic study of the constitutional reform of this country" Roger Scully, Representation. |
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Devolution Law Making and the Constitution - Robert Hazell & Richard Rawlings This book is essential reading for academics and students in law and in politics, and for anyone interested in the constitutional and legal aspects of UK devolution. |
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Refining Regulatory Regimes: Utilities in Europe - David Coen and Adrienne Heritier "This major study breaks new ground in bringing together a distinguished international team to offer a comparative and empirical investigation of factors shaping regulatory implementation and business-regulator relations in key European Utilities" Colin Scott, LSE |
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Delegating Powers in the European Community - Fabio Franchino (2004) British Journal of Political Science. 34: 449-76 Download: text 1 [1.2mb/pdf] / text 2 [51kb/pdf] / Dataset [99kb/xls] |
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The Rise of Patient Groups and Drug Development (December 2004) - Dr M. Duckenfield & Dr D. Rangnekar. |
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The State of British Democracy - Helen Margetts, Nick Sparrow, Stuart Weir, Mark Ross 'This poll shows a significant breakthrough in attitudes towards state funding for political parties' said Professor Margetts, Director of the UCL School of Public Policy, who advised the trust on the poll. Download Publication (PDF/312kb) Download Press Release (Doc/29kb) |
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Reforming the House of Lords, Lessons from Overseas - Meg Russell "Meg Russell provides an overdue and authoraittive correction in showing the lessons to be learnt from second chambers overseas in the balanced, analytical and highly readable manner that the Constitution Unit has made its trademark" Roger Scully, Representation. |
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Working paper 30 - August 2011 Human rights or social justice? Rescuing human rights from the outcomes view. Saladin Meckled-Garcia. |
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Working paper 29 - November 2008 Authority of International Institutions: The Case for International Human Rights Treaty Bodies Başak Çalı and Alice Wyss |
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Working paper 28 - August 2008 Moral Methodology and the Third Theory of Rights Saladin Meckled-Garcia |
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Working Paper 27 - Feb 2008 Trade Associations as Industry Reputation Agents: A Model of Reputational Incentives Andrew Tucker |
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Working Paper 26 - May 2007 Political Constitutionalism Professor Richard Bellamy, Inaugural Lecture, 31 May 2007 |
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Working Paper 25 - November 2006 Japanese Firms in the EU: Enduring national business culture in the age of Europeanization Yukihko Hamada |
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Working Paper 24 - July 2006 On the Very Idea of Cosmopolitan Justice: Constructivism and International Agency Dr Saladin Meckled-García, (UCL Department of Political Sience) |
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Working Paper 23 - [July 2006] Access to EU political institutions: Political leaders and working groups Dr Rainer Eising, (Hagen University, Germany) |
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Working Paper 22 - [July 2006] Lobbying versus Litigation: Political and Legal Strategies of Interest Representation in the European Union Pieter Bouwen, (European Commission, DG Enterprise, Brussels) Margaret McCown, (National Defense University, Washington, USA) |
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Working Paper 21 - [July 2006] With a Little Help from Your State: Interest Intermediation in the Domestic Pre-Negotiations of EU Legislation Gerald Schneider (University of Konstantz, Germany) Daniel Finke (Research Institute for Public Administration, Speyer, Germany) Konstantin Baltz (University of Konstantz, Germany) |
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Working Paper 20 - [July 2006] Critical Resource Dependencies and the Europeanization of Domestic Interest Groups Jan Beyers (Leiden University) Bart Kerremans (University of Leuven) |
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Working Paper 19 - [July 2006] Networking vs. Allying: The Decision of Interest Groups to Join Coalitions in the US and the EU Dr. Christine Mahoney |
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Working Paper 18 - [March 2006] Independence Under Fire: Extra-legal Pressures and Coalition Building in WTO Dispute Settlement John Maton |
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Working Paper 17 - [February 2006] Judicial Independence in Transition: Revisiting the Determinants of Judicial Activism in the Constitutional Courts of Post-Communist States Jonathan C. Bond, (The George Washington University Law School) |
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Working Paper 16 - [February 2006] The Formal Challenge to the Bureau-Shaping Model Dr Fabio Franchino, (UCL Department of Political Sience) |
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Working Paper 15 - [June 2005] Representation and Committee Reports in the European Parliament Pierre Hausemer, (LSE Department of Government |
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Working Paper 14 - [March 2005] The WTO's Appellate Body: Legal Formalism as a Legitimation of Global Governance Professor Sol Picciotto, (Law School, Lancaster University |
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Working Paper 13 - [March 2005] The third force? Independent regulatory agencies and elected politicians in Europe Mark Thatcher, Department of Government and CARR, LSE |
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Working Paper 12 - [January 2005] Accountability in Accounting? The Politics of Private Rule-Making in the Public Interest Walter Mattli and Tim Büthe |
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Working Paper 11 - [January 2005] Holding Global Regulators Accountable The Case of Credit Rating Agencies Dieter Kerwer |
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Working Paper 10 - [December 2004] Lost in Translation: The Human Rights Ideal and International Human Rights Law Dr Saladin Meckled-García and Dr Basak Çali, (UCL Department of Political Sience) |
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Working Paper 9 - [May 2004] Valuing Health, Healthcare and Health Equality Donald Franklin, (Senior Economic Adviser, Department of Health) |
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Working Paper 8 - [May 2004] Justice in Transport Policy Nick Tyler, (Centre for Transport Studies, University College London) |
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Working Paper 7 - [April 2004] Putting Law in its Place An interdisciplinary evaluation of national amnesty laws Michael Freeman, (Department of Government, University of Essex) |
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Working Paper 6 - [January 2004] Moving in the Other Direction? The Impact of Domestic Party System Change on Italian MEPs Amie Kreppel, (Center for European Studies and Department of Political Science, University of Florida) |
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Working Paper 5 - [November 2003] Does Policy Matter? On Governments' Attempts to Control Unwanted Migration Eiko R. Thielemann, (Department of Government/European Institute, LSE) |
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Working Paper 4 - [November 2003] Europeanization of National Democracies: The Differential Impact on Simple and Compound Polities Vivien A. Schmidt, (Department of International Relations, Boston University) |
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Working Paper 3 - [March 2003] An Inaugural Lecture Electronic Government: Method or Madness? Professor Helen Margetts, (UCL Department of Political Sience) |
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Working Paper 2 - [February 2003] Thirty Years of Business and Politics Graham K. Wilson, (University of Wisconsin, February 2003) |
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Working Paper 1 - [February 2003] Consider the Source! Determinants of Corporate Preferences for Public Policy Cathie Jo Martin, (Boston University, February 2003) |
This is the full chronological list of Constitution Unit publications. All are available to download free of charge by clicking on the title which links to a pdf file. If you require a hard copy of any publication please contact Victoria Spence (v.spence@ucl.ac.uk) for further details.
