TY - BOOK TI - The changing constitution PY - 1985/// CY - Oxford : PB - Clarendon Press, KW - Great Britain -- Connstitutions N1 - List of Contributors -- Table of Cases -- Table of Statutes -- PART I. TRADITIONAL DOCTRINE REVIEWED -- 1. The Rule of Law Today Jeffrey Jowell -- 2. The Sovereignty of Parliament-in Perpetuity? A. W. Bradley Colin Turpin -- 3. Ministerial Responsibility: Myth or Reality? -- 4. The Theory and Practice of Modern British Democracy Anthony H. Birch -- PART II. MODERN BRITISH GOVERNMENT: PRACTICE AND PROBLEMS -- 5. The Parties and Parliament: Representative or Intra-party Democracy ? Dawn Oliver Gavin Drewry -- 6. Select Committees and Back-bench Power -- 7. The Control of Public Expenditure Michael Elliott -- 8. The Executive Power Today: Bargaining and Economic Control Terence Daintith -- 9. Who Controls Quangos and the Nationalized Industries? Norman Lewis -- 10. Central-Local Relations: The Balance of Power Malcolm Grant -- 11. The Police: Independence and Accountability Geoffrey Marshall -- PART III. TOWARDS CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM -- 12. The Constitution: Decline and Renewal Anthony Lester David Butler -- 13. Electoral Reform -- 14. Regional Devolution David Marquand -- 15. Freedom of Information: The Constitutional Impact -- Rodney Austin -- Index ER -