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Parliamentary Affairs Advance Access originally published online on June 8, 2009
Parliamentary Affairs 2009 62(3):493-498; doi:10.1093/pa/gsp012
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Juridification and Democracy

Mark Bevir1

Department of Political Science
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1950, USA

Correspondence: mbevir@berkeley.edu

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

WHAT is the state of British government? What do we wish it to become? These questions lurk within my article on ‘The Westminster Model, Governance, and Judicial Reform’. The philosopher J. L. Austin once said that he had been too busy doing what he was doing to explain why it mattered. I am grateful to Roger Masterman for impetus to explain why my article matters. My conciliatory personality will suggest that he and I broadly agree on the nature of juridification and its place in Labour's reforms. So, what is all the fuss about? Well, even if we largely agree on juridification, we point to very different answers to questions about the state of British government and what we would like it to become. My confrontational personality will devote most of my reply to these issues. I believe that British government resembles the differentiated polity of the governance narrative more . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Juridification
 

   Governance
 

   Democracy
 

   Conclusion
 

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