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Argues for a body to consider areas of policy with a view to giving advice on how to improve the institutional and procedural framework of policy analysis. (JMM)

Attempts to explain constitutional principles and the nature of legal regulation in relation to extended government in Britain. The recent policies of privatisation of national assets lend piquancy to constitutional debates which have smouldered over the last decade or so. Comparisons are made with the regulatory techniques adopted in the USA, where heavy reliance is placed upon the use of law for the purposes of confining and exposing discretionary administrative and political action. Modern trends in Britain, it is concluded, leave traditional constitutional claims even more threadbare than formerly. (Abstract amended)

This work argues that the ancient underlying principles of public law are as crucial as they ever were - they simply need to be experimentally updated to address the changing face of "governance". The author describe the challenges and points up possible directions in which we might move