The House of Commons Modernisation Committee: Revisiting past experience.

In 2024, the UK House of Commons established a new 'Modernisation Committee', modelled on a previous 1997–2010 committee of the same name. This article revisits the record of that earlier committee, to re-examine a series of prominent claims about its work from existing literature. We make several n...

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Publicado en:Parliamentary Affairs Vol. 79; no. 3; pp. 534 - 556
Autores principales: Fleming, Thomas G, Kelly, Hannah
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Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Jul2026
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