• Offering detailed coverage of British constitutional reform, this book also examines questions of methodology which are largely ignored elsewhere, allowing the student to gain a broad understanding of the subject and tackle difficult questions such as how further constitutional change might be achieved
• Written in simple and direct language, enabling the reader to understand the key issues involved and to reflect on possible solutions to the problems of the current British constitution
• The relatively concise nature of the book permits the reader to gain a rapid overview of the key issues and debates involved in constitutional reform
• An expanded bibliography allows the student to follow up points of particular interest through the main available primary and secondary materials

New to this edition

• Two new chapters on 'Union, Dissolution or Federation?'and 'Codifying the Constitution'
• An expanded bibliography featuring primary and secondary materials, arranged by chapter for ease of reference
• A thorough retrospective evaluation of the constitutional changes of Tony Blair's Labour government

Readership: Undergraduate students of law, politics, and government studying constitutional reform, constitutional law and administrative law. Politicians, political journalists, and political correspondents. Anyone with an interest in current issues concerning British constitutional reform

Rodney Brazier, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Manchester

Review(s) from previous edition

"... excellent material for discussion. Diana Woodhouse, Parliamentary Affairs, April 1999

1: The story so far
2: Constitution-making
3: The parties and the constitution
4: Voting reform
5: The second chamber paradox
6: Ministers' Powers
7: A Constitutional Guiding Light
8: Union, dissolution or federation?
9: Defending rights
10: Government, law and the judges
11: Codifying the constitution