Conscience and Parliament

by Philip Cowley (Editor)

Overview

Considering how the British policy process deals with "conscience" issues, this book covers eight topics discussed by Parliament in the last quarter of a century - abortion, censorship, divorce, Sunday trading, homosexuality, war crimes, disability rights and animal welfare.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714643885
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/30/1998
Series:	The Library of Legislative Studies
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.49(d)

Table of Contents

Abortion, Susan Mills and Sally Sheldon; homosexuality, Melvyn D. Read and David Marsh; war crimes, Gabriele Ganz; divorce, Philip Cowley; Sunday trading, Melvyn D. Read; disability rights, Matthew Bailey and Kevin Shinkwin; animal welfare, Robert Garner; censorship, Martin Durham; voting without a party?, Charles Pattie, Ron Johnston and Mark Stuart.

Editorial Reviews

Considers how the British policy process deals with social issues which have strong moral overtones, such as abortion, homosexuality, censorship, divorce, and war crimes. Describes changes to law resulting from parliamentary decisions and analyzes the processes behind them. For those interested in British politics and policy. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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