Political Power and Democratic Control in Britain Book

	List of figures, tables and boxes
	Foreword
	Acknowledgements
	List of abbreviations and acronyms
1	Auditing Democracy in Britain: Introducing the Democratic Criteria	3
2	Ancient and Modern: The governing culture in Britain	22
Pt. 1	Elections and Mandates	41
3	The Other National Lottery: The political effects of Westminster elections	45
4	The Independence of Elections: Government and outside influences on elections	79
5	Sticking to the Manifesto: Election mandates in action	100
Pt. 2	The Core Executive	119
6	Does the Cabinet Really Govern? Cabinet government or quasi-presidential rule?	123
7	Ministers and Mandarins: The powers of ministers, bureaucrats and their departments	151
8	Agents of Power: The role of agencies and quangos in government	191
9	Government Below the Centre: Government at regional and local level	233
10	Networks in Power: External influences working within government	271
11	The Rules of the Game: Britain's informal and flexible executive	299
Pt. 3	Checks and Balances	333
12	Giving Account to Parliament: How ministerial responsibility works in practice	336
13	A Parliament Bound: Party constraints on scrutiny and accountability	370
14	Heckling the Steamroller: The imbalance of power between government and Parliament	404
15	The Rule of Law: The limited role of the judiciary	440
Pt. 4	The Balance Sheet	473
	Findings: Good in Parts: Measuring British democracy against Democratic Criteria	473
	Conclusions: Tying Down Gulliver: The absence of a written constitution	489
App	The Democratic Audit	501
	Table of cases	503
	Bibliography and sources	504
	Books and articles	504
	Official documents	518
	Index	523