Reforming the Constitution

Peter Catterall, Wolfram Kaiser, Ulrike Walton-Jordan

'Interesting and highly readable ... impressive appreciation of influences on debates from outside the United Kingdom; the incorporating of such an extra-territorial perspective is long overdue.' - Political Studies'The book succeeds admirably in its primary objective of providing a deeper understanding of the driving forces behind the reform debate.' - Democratization'Amasses a wealth of detailed argumentation and evidence.' - British Politics Group Newsletter

• Introduction; Chapter 1 ‘Efficiency with Freedom’? Debates about the British Constitution in the Twentieth Century, Peter Catterall; Chapter 2 The Decline and Rise of Radicalism: Political Part ies and Reform in the Twentieth Century, Wolfram Kaiser; Chapter 3 Constitutional Law Reform: Inside the Motor, Joe Jacob; Chapter 4 House of Lords and Monarchy: British Majoritarian Democracy and the Current Reform Debate about its Pre-Democratic Institutions, André Kaiser; Chapter 5 The Politics of Electoral Reform since 1885, Peter Catterall; Chapter 6 Transforming Relations of Gender: The Feminist Project of Societal Reform in Turn-of-the-Century Britain, Ulrike Walton-Jordan, Jutta Schwarzkopf; Chapter 7 The Concept of Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Britain: Analysing Contexts of Development, Eugenia Low; Chapter 8 ‘Home Rule All Round’: Experiments in Regionalising Great Britain, 1886–1914, Elfie Rembold; Chapter 9 Territorial Politics and Change in Britain, James Mitchell; Chapter 10 The British State and Northern Ireland: Can the National Question be Reformed?, Brian Girvin;