UK Election Law

A Critical Examination

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Bob Watt

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Contemporary Issues in Public Policy

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This book contains a critical analysis of the law and politics governing the conduct of statutory elections in the United Kingdom. The author submits that elections have now become a marketplace for 'buying' the most seemingly attractive political party on offer into power, rather than an expression of democratic self government. The author considers thematically a number of issues dating from before the Civil War through the nineteenth century reforms to the foundation of the Electoral Commission and up to their paper 'Delivering democracy?' of August 2004. It contains, amongst other legal analysis, analyses of the leading cases of Sanders v Chichester; R v Jones, R v Whicher; ex parte Mainwaring; and In re Fermanagh and South Tyrone. The author presents an argument for a radical reappraisal of election law which involves, rather than excludes the self-governing citizenry, arguing that election law, perhaps above all other kinds of law, should be the subject of vigorous and open public debate.

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Bob Watt, BA (CNAA), BCL (Oxon). After working for sixteen years, latterly as a biochemistry technician, and in a variety of voluntary roles, Bob Watt studied at Oxford Polytechnic where he was awarded a first class honours degree in Law and Politics. He then studied at Balliol College, Oxford where he was awarded the BCL having studied employment law, comparative human rights, legal and political theory, and the philosophy of the common law. Bob is now a Senior Lecturer in Laws at the University of Essex. His main interests are in employment law, public and electoral law, and legal and social policy and theory.

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January 9th, 2006

Author

Bob Watt

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Professional & Vocational

Pages

264

Series

Contemporary Issues in Public Policy

Dimensions

138x216x14

ISBN-13

9781859419168

Product ID

2329676

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