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Governing by numbers : delegated legislation and everyday policy-making / by Edward C. Page.

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An account of how delegated legislation is made. The book analyzes the distinctive character of everyday policy-making and the implications of how it works for our understanding of British democracy.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Page, Edward
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2001.
Subjects:
Delegated legislation > Great Britain.
Policy sciences.
Delegated legislation.
Great Britain.
Table of Contents:
  • Politics in Seclusion
  • But is it politics?
  • It's politics, but not as we know it
  • The character of secluded politics
  • Moving out of seclusion
  • Illuminating the obscurity
  • Examining the Instrument
  • What are Statutory Instruments?
  • Not new, but increasingly important
  • How SIs are made: the formalities
  • Courts and delegated legislation
  • The stuff of everyday politics
  • Reading the labels
  • Subjects covered and ministries concerned
  • Political action and SIs
  • High politics, low politics and SIs
  • How much of political importance is involved in delegated legislation?
  • The origins of regulations
  • Different types of SI
  • Where do the initiatives come from?
  • Ministers on Top
  • What gets referred to ministers and when
  • Delegated legislation: the domain of the junior minister
  • The nature of ministerial involvement
  • The muffled impact of parties
  • Drafting SIs: the joint effort of administrators and lawyers
  • Administrators' roles
  • Lawyers' roles
  • Consulting outside interests
  • Contrasting consultative processes
  • Is consultation inclusive?
  • Responding to consultations
  • The discreet impact of parliamentary scrutiny
  • The Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments
  • Scrutiny of policy
  • Assessing the impact of Parliament
  • Everyday politics and high politics
  • Understanding everyday government
  • Forms of bias
  • The relationship between everyday and high politics
  • Governing in a nether world
  • Appendix A: The Medicines (Control of Substances for Manufacture) (Revocation) Order 1997
  • Appendix B: Analysis of SIs on CD-ROM
  • Appendix C: SIs examined in detail in Chapter 3
  • Appendix D: Selection of 46 SIs for detailed case studies
  • Appendix E: Survey of interest groups
  • List of SIs cited in text.

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