Party Conferences 2010 – Laying the Foundations for the Year Ahead

2011 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-21
Author(s):  
Richard Stebbing
Keyword(s):  
White Paper ◽  
General Election ◽  
Coalition Government

With a general election, a historic coalition government and a forthcoming white paper on NHS reforms, this year was an exceptionally important and busy party conference season for the College.

scholarly journals An argument lost by both sides? The Parliamentary debate over the 2010 NHS White Paper

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Greener
Keyword(s):  
White Paper ◽  
Coalition Government ◽  
Secretary Of State ◽  
Parliamentary Debate ◽  
Policy Argument

This chapter examines the rhetoric of government and opposition in the Parliamentary debate over the 2010 NHS White Paper ‘Equity and Excellence.’ It treats the debate as a process of deliberative argument in which Secretary of State Andrew Lansley justifies his reorganisation and explores the extent to which his policy argument was scrutinised by both the opposition and by members of his own Coalition government. The chapter suggests that Lansley offered an unjustified reorganisation based on market-based governance and decentralised accountability, which would at the same time generate substantial savings in a time of financial austerity. This is contrasted with the often fragmented arguments offered by voices in the opposition. The authors ask questions about the extent to which parliamentary debate is able to adequately scrutinise governmental proposals of the complexity of healthcare reorganisation, especially at the beginning of a new term in office.

scholarly journals EDITORIAL: Culture and conflict

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Labour Party ◽  
General Election ◽  
Coalition Government ◽  
Trade Unionist ◽  
Oil Workers ◽  
The Many

One of the many ironies of Fiji's May 2000 general election was the demise of one of the "godfathers" of the indigenous Taukei movement, Apisai Tora. The man who was once a firebrand trade unionist and who jointly led the 1959 oil workers' strike, later became an indigenous nationalist and helped unleash the forces that overthrew the first Labour Party coalition government in two military coups in 1987. 

British Politics: A Very Short Introduction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Wright
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
Representative Democracy ◽  
General Election ◽  
Coalition Government ◽  
British Politics ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Current Events ◽  
History Of

British Politics: A Very Short Introduction explores the history of British politics, looking at whether the present instability is an aberration, the result of long-standing fault lines, or both. Current events are placed within a longer, larger perspective, focusing on Britain’s constitution, its polarized political culture of debates and disagreements, the importance of party politics, and the meaning of representative democracy now. Following the financial crisis, a peacetime coalition government, and the fallout from the 2016 referendum, Britain’s political future is uncertain. However, even after the momentous changes leading up to and including the 2019 general election, it remains uncertain whether the character of British politics will fundamentally change.

Finding Information from the National Assembly for Wales

2001 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Speight
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
White Paper ◽  
New Labour ◽  
General Election ◽  
Labour Government ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
The People ◽  
Election Victory

Following its General Election victory in 1997, the new Labour Government set out its plans for devolution in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. The proposals for a National Assembly for Wales were outlined in A Voice for Wales, published as a White Paper in July 1997. A referendum on the proposals was held on 18 September and, as many people know, the result was very close, with the outcome not known until the very last result was declared. In the end, however, the people of Wales said “Yes” to the Assembly by a margin of just 0.6% – 50.3% voting in favour of the Assembly, with 49.7% rejecting the proposals.

Spain's regional polls set to see government setback

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
General Election ◽  
Coalition Government ◽  
Hospital Services ◽  
Content Type ◽  
National Economic ◽  
National Coalition ◽  
Regional Elections ◽  
National Economic Policy

Significance The polls, especially the battles to control Madrid and Barcelona, will influence September's regional election in Catalonia and the general election due late this year. With many regional elections unlikely to produce an outright winner, subsequent negotiations will provide pointers to possible future national coalition government, after 38 years of single-party rule. Impacts Competition from Podemos -- despite that party's difficulties -- seems likely to obstruct any PSOE bandwagon generated from the elections. Support from Citizens for local minority PP rule will require policy concessions, although national economic policy would not be affected. Electoral and policy gains by Citizens may encourage voters to transfer their support from the PP. In some places, Citizens may side with the PSOE, to show it is serious about reform. In some regions, a loss of PP control may spell an end to the controversial privatisation of hospital services.

Prime Minister

2020 ◽  
pp. 137-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney Brazier
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
General Election ◽  
Coalition Government ◽  
The Past ◽  
Simple Concept ◽  
Party Manifestos ◽  
Voting System ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Constitutional Right

This chapter looks at the ways in which a politician becomes Prime Minister after a General Election. The voting system is briefly analysed because it is through its operation that a Prime Minister has the constitutional right to hold office—but by a method that is flawed. The significance of party manifestos is examined. While an election that gives one party a majority in the Commons is a simple concept, hung Parliaments have caused constitutional and political problems in the past. Such results in 1910, 1923, 1929, and 1974 are explained. The formation of the Coalition Government in 2010 is analysed, and the effect of methods codified in The Cabinet Manual on the consequences of the 2017 hung Parliament is assessed in detail. The obligations of a sitting Prime Minister when a hung Parliament is returned are explored.

Legislative Records, 2000

2000 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-336
Author(s):  
Tomoaki Iwai
Keyword(s):  
Sudden Death ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Political Power ◽  
General Election ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Coalition Government ◽  
Liberal Party ◽  
Political Scene

The political scene behind Japan's legislation in 2000 was uneasy and flurried. The ascent to political power by Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori following the sudden death of Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, the shift in political framework caused by the separation of the Liberal Party from the coalition government, and the general election came one after the other in a series of restless succession.

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