Keeping MPs Honest?: Ethics Reforms in the British House of Commons

作者: Nicholas Allen

DOI: 10.2753/PIN1099-9922120201

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摘要: This article examines a series of ethics reforms instituted by the British House Commons in 1995 (the Nolan reforms) and compares them with further changes introduced 2009. Drawing on range sources, it describes impact practice regulation at Westminster, and, placing broader context legislative ethics, reflects some their consequences. It concludes noting three enduring features Commons: an institutional reluctance to change structures, importance party politics, continuing emergence new ethical challenges.

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