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dc.contributor.authorAYLETT, PJen_US
dc.contributor.editorHennessy, Pen_US
dc.contributor.editorEllison, Jen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-05T13:29:16Z
dc.date.issued2016-05-23en_US
dc.date.submitted2017-01-04T12:27:19.439Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/18377
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is a study of the development of investigatory select committees of the House of Commons during the twentieth century, with a particular emphasis on the period between 1960 and 1990. Synthesising existing analysis as well as presenting new evidence, it describes the early origins of such committees as an integral part of the work of the House, and then considers the House’s apparent loss of interest in select committees between 1920 and 1960. The thesis next discusses the reasons behind the introduction of new select committees in the mid-1960s, and traces further changes to committees during the 1970s. These developments are set in the political context of the period, and in particular the growth of backbench dissent in both major parties during the 1970s. The thesis then analyses the process by which departmentally-related select committees came to be established in 1979. Finally it assesses the quantitative and qualitative evidence about the activity and impact of the new departmental select committees in their first decade up to 1990, relating them closely to the political environment created by the government of Margaret Thatcher.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectHouse of Commonsen_US
dc.subjectSelect Committeeen_US
dc.subjectHistoryen_US
dc.subjectReformen_US
dc.titleThirty Years of Reform House of Commons Select Committees, 1960-1990en_US
dc.rights.holderThe copyright of this thesis rests with the author and no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without the prior written consent of the author
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