For a number of decades, officials working across different branches of the United Kingdom (UK) constitution have been engaged in a series of separate projects that, taken in their totality, amount to an astounding feat of constitutional writing and publication. Yet, until now, no-one has fully recognized or critically analyzed what has taken place. There has been a proliferation in the UK of publicly available codes, normally lacking a basis in statute, providing official accounts of a variety of different features of UK constitutional rules and principles. They cover institutions ranging...

This book provides an in-depth study of the making and amendment of constitutions and the structures of government, and considers a range of theoretical and practical issues of relevance to the development of political and constitutional reform in the UK.In part one, the book begins by considering the past and present processes of constitutional reform in the UK, the existing institutional arrangements for public law reform, and particular methods adopted in selected cases of "constitution building" activity, including ones relating to the devolved systems of governance in Scotland, Wales and...

This book is the most comprehensive single volume reference work available for British political facts. It is useful to a wide range of potential readers, including students, educators, journalists, policy professionals, and anyone with an interest in politics and political history.