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Parliamentary Affairs Advance Access originally published online on March 4, 2008
Parliamentary Affairs 2008 61(2):370-379; doi:10.1093/pa/gsn009
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The Ombudsman and Individual Rights

Ann Abraham

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WHEN Ronald Dworkin asks of the USA in his recent book, ‘Is democracy possible here?’, we should not take his question as irrelevant this side of the Atlantic. The Human Rights Act and the programme of constitutional reform of which it was intended to be a part remain consistent with the new project announced by the appearance of The Governance of Britain; and as we know, the reinvigoration of democracy is the express ambition of that new project. Quite what sort of democracy is at stake is rather more difficult to say. Dworkin talks of ‘partnership democracy’, in a style that is reminiscent of the language of those who see some sort of ‘deliberative democracy’ as the way forward, a compromise between the remoteness of the purely representative form of democracy to which we are accustomed and the elusive immediacy of a more direct form of democratic mandate. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Administrative justice
 

   Ombudsmen and the judges
 

   Human rights and humanising public administration
 

   From common law to common values
 

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