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Zusatztext A fascinating and significant study of the political processes which have brought bills of rights into being in Canada, New Zealand and the UK ... an intriguing, enlightening and hugely valuable comparative study in constitutional development. It will be of interest to all public lawyers and should make a major contribution to the study of public law, particularly in the Westminster world. Informationen zum Autor David Erdos is Katzenbach Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and Balliol College, University of Oxford. Having read PPE at Merton College, Oxford followed by a PhD in the Politics Department of Princeton University, he has a scholarly background in the social and political sciences. Increasingly, his work has engaged with traditional legal analysis. Substantively his areas of research interest concern constitutions, human rights and the regulatory state. He has published on constitutional reform movements, bill of rights legal impact, sexual minority rights, and Europeanization. The recent recipient of a prestigious Leverhulme early career research award (2010-13) his main current research examines the tensions between data protection, freedom of expression, freedom of information and the rule of law. Klappentext 'Delegating Rights Protection' provides a socially and political grounded analysis of the deliberate political genesis of bills of rights in advanced democratic settings. The book particularly concentrates on exploring bill of rights outcomes in four Westminster democracies: Australia! Canada! New Zealand! and the UK.-- Zusammenfassung Delegating Rights Protection provides a socially and political grounded analysis of the deliberate political genesis of bills of rights in advanced democratic settings. The book particularly concentrates on exploring bill of rights outcomes in four Westminster democracies: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface List of Charts List of Tables List of Abbreviations Part I: Foundations 1: Introduction 2: The Origins of Bill of Rights: Concepts and Comparative Development 3: Theorizing the Origins of Bills of Rights Part II: Westminster Case Studies 4: Canada and the Canadian Bill of Rights Act (1960) 5: Canada and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1982) 6: New Zealand and the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act (1990) 7: United Kingdom and the Human Rights Act (1998) 8: Australia and the Failure of National Bill of Rights Genesis Part III: Conclusions 9: Postmaterialist Forces and Political Triggers Appendix One: Rights Protected in Government-sponsored Bills of Rights Enacted or Proposed in Westminster Democracies Appendix Two: Bill of Rights Institutionalization: Constructing the Scores Appendix Three: Bill of Rights Institutionalization in Select Democracies: Variable and Sub-variable Scores Bibliography Index ...
