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图书目录: THE CABINET AND MINISTERS
I. AT THE CABINET The Cabinet in Session -- How Decisions are Reached -- Cabinet Papers -- Frequency of Cabinet Meetings -- Parliamentary Busi- ness: Foreign Affairs -- The Cabinet Secretariat -- Recording of Cabinet Conclusions -- Selection of Cabinet Business II. CABINET COMMITTEES Cabinet Committees in War and Peace -- Post-war Cabinet Com- mittee System -- Composition -- Chairmen -- Meetings -- Official Committees and Working Parties -- Servicing the Committees III. COMPOSITION OF THE CABINET: OVERLORDS; CO-ORDINATORS General Considerations -- Departmental Ministers Outside the Cabinet -- The Small Cabinet: super-Ministers -- Mr. Attlee's Views and Practice -- Non-departmental Ministers -- Prime Minis- ter -- Lord President -- Lord Privy Seal -- Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster -- Paymaster-General -- Minister without Portfolio -- Minister of Defence -- Their use: their Staffs -- Co-ordinator or Overlord ? -- Comment on the Supervising Minister How Co-ordinating Ministers Work -- Conclusions IV. MINISTERS AND PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARIES Departmental Ministers -- Ministers of State -- Parliamentary Secretaries -- Collective Responsibility -- Help for Hard-worked Ministers -- Relations between departmental Ministers and Parlia- mentary Secretaries -- The 'Zinoviev Letter' -- Life of a Parlia- mentary Secretary -- A Parliamentary Secretaries' Charter PARLIAMENT V. THE MONARCHY AS PART OF OUR PARLIA- MENTARY DEMOCRACY The Queen and Parliament -- Choice of Prime Minister -- The Crisis of 1931 -- The Queen and Her Ministers -- The Sovereign's Heavy Duties -- Hereditary Sovereign or President? -- Popularity of the Monarchy VI. HOW GOVERNMENT AND PARLIAMENT LIVE TOGETHER-OR DIE The Parliamentary Balance of Power -- Parliamentary Obstruction -- Contacts between the Government, its Friends, and the Opposi- tion -- The Whip -- The Party Whips -- The 'Usual Channels' -- A Two-way Traffic -- The Whips and Procedure -- Pairing -- The Documentary Whip -- The Parliamentary Secretary and the Parlia- mentary Private Secretary -- The Leader of the House of Commons VII. PARTY ORGANIZATION IN PARLIAMENT Difficulties under Minority Labour Governments -- Changes in 1945-5 x -- Parliamentary Party Groups -- Labour in Opposition Labour Party Standing Orders -- Conservative Party Organization -- Party Organization in the House of Lords -- Government and Party Meetings -- The Parties and Outside Organizations -- Con- servative Party Practice -- Labour Party Practice -- The T.U.C. in Public Affairs -- Co-operators in Public Affairs VIII. THE HOUSE OF COMMONS -ITS LIFE AND PROBLEMS Committee of Privileges -- Committees on Public Expenditure -- Committee on Delegated Legislation -- Rights of the House as a Whole--Government by Committee- Heavy Labours of M.P.s -- The M.P. as an Individual -- The Free Vote -- Back-bench Influence -- Public Opinion -- Love of the House of Commons IX. THE HOUSE OF LORDS Powers of the Lords -- How the Lords Function Together -- Non- legislative Work of the Lords -The Lords as Leglslators -- General Relations between Lords and Commons -Procedure for Setding Differences between the Houses -- Iron and Steel in the Lords -- Capital Punishment -- Conference of Party Leaders on Reform -- Some Thoughts on the Breakdown of the Conference ~ Difficulties in Selection of Peers: Life Peers -- Future of the House ot'Lords Legislative Utility of the House of Lords -- British Political Genius X. CHANGES IN PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE Erskine May -- The Closure -- The Speaker -- The Chairman of Ways and Means -- The Clerks -- Parliament and Post-war Recon- struction -- Committee Stage in Standing Committee or on the Floor? -- Number of Standing Committees -- Application of Guillo- tine in Standing Committees -- Report Debated in the House -- Divisions and Questions -- Procedure in Committee of Supply -- Control of Finance -- Private Members' Time -- Value of the Reforms XI. THE LEGISLATIVE PROGRAMME Legislation and Administration -- Supervision of the Programme Programme for the Parliament -- Departmental Preparations The Sessional Programme -- The Claims of Essential Business Opposed Private Bill Legislation -- Private Members' Time Debates on Socialized Industries -- Debates on the Adjournment -- Contingencies -- Time Available for Government Legislation Time taken by Bills -- Drafting the Bills - The Legislation Com- mittee -- Achievement of the Programme -- Use of the Guillotine AD MINISTRA TION XII. SOCIALIZATION OF INDUSTRY" PUBLIC CON- TROL AND ACCOUNTABILITY Cabinet and Committee Consideration - The Public Corporation The Ministerial Department - The Problem of Accountability -- The Parliamentary Question -- Other Opportunities in Parlia- ment -- Ministers and the Boards - The Consumer -- Public Relations - Comments and Suggestions -- Proposed Select Com- mittee on Nationalised Industries -- Facing the Essential Issues Variations in Collective Enterprise XlII. ECONOMIC PLANNING AND CONTROLS Earlier Views on the Functions of Government - The Need for Planning -- The Conflict of Priorities -- Powers -- Prolongation of War-time ControLs -- Machinery of Planning - Publicity and Persuasion -- Conclusions XlV. MINISTERS AND CIVIL SERVANTS Taking Over the Department - The Permanent Secretary and Other Officers -- Private Secretaries -- Ministerial and Depart- mental Minutes -- Formulation of Policy -- Day-to-Day Ad- ministrattion-- The Minister and his Advisers -- An Unfortunate Blunder -- Transfers and Dismissals -- Top-level Appointments -- The Foreign Service - Scientists in the Civil Service -- Economic and Industrial Questions - Tribute to the British Civil Service APPENDICES INDEX |