Changing States, Changing Nations: Constitutional Reform and National Identity in the Late Twentieth Century McDonald Andrew
Changing States, Changing Nations: Constitutional Reform and National Identity in the Late Twentieth Century McDonald Andrew This book presents the remarkable constitutional reforms undertaken by the…
Specifikacia Changing States, Changing Nations: Constitutional Reform and National Identity in the Late Twentieth Century McDonald Andrew
Changing States, Changing Nations: Constitutional Reform and National Identity in the Late Twentieth Century McDonald Andrew
This book presents the remarkable constitutional reforms undertaken by the Blair and Brown governments in the UK. The book illuminates the ambitions of the key players in Whitehall and Westminster and is enriched through a study of comparable constitutional reforms in Canada and Australia: the Charter of Rights and Freedoms pioneered by Pierre Trudeau and the attempt by Paul Keating to make Australia a Republic. The reforms are remarkable in that they had the potential to change the way Britons understood the national identity of the UK.
Readers will benefit from the author's The Canadian and Australian chapters are a contribution to the political history of those nations and a device for understanding the changes in Britain.The author is an expert in the use of Freedom of Information and was a senior policy maker in Whitehall working primarily on constitutional reform.