Titlebook: Mastering British politics; F. N. Forman Book 1991Latest edition F. N. Forman 1991 constitution.decision-making.democracy.electoral system

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The media which is characterised by the widespread use of the various channels of communication for a broad range of political and other purposes. Politicians need the media and seek every opportunity to get their message across. Equally those who work in the media are not too shy to exert a significant influence over the political process.

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Ministers and DepartmentsLord President of the Council dates from 1497. Some of the Departments of central government are now over 200 years old. For example, two of the most prestigious Departments were established in 1782 when George III created a Department for Foreign Affairs and a Department for Home and Colonial Affairs (now the Home Office).

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The legal systemere is the sphere of administrative law which involves the quasi-judicial procedures of the various administrative tribunals and the judicial review of administrative action. We shall review each of these aspects in this chapter, but we shall also touch upon the package of legal services reform introduced by the present Conservative Government.

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Public opinionthe majority of those citizens who have ... taken an effective part in public life’.. On the other hand, V.O. Key was more cynical when he defined it as ‘those opinions of private persons which Governments find it prudent to heed’..

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The Monarchy become Acts of Parliament. Admittedly, the Monarch has long been regarded as one of the ‘dignified’ as distinct from the ‘efficient’ parts of the constitution (in Walter Bagehot’s nineteenth-century terminology). Yet for all that it is still appropriate that we should consider the Monarchy in this part of the book.

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