None of the above: The UK house of commons votes on reforming the House of Lords, February 2003

Political Quarterly

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 298-310

  McLean, Iain ^a,b   Spirling, Arthur ^c   Russell, Meg ^a,b  

^a NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0042730259     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-923x.00539     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. New Labour: Because Britain Deserves Better. London: Labour Party, 1997, pp. 32-3.
2. Reform of the House of Lords: Analysis of Responses to the Government White Paper 'The House of Lords - Completing the Reform', London, Lord Chancellor's Department, 2002.
3. Hansard, Commons, 4 February 2003, cols 161, 243.
4. Steven J. Brams and Peter C. Fishburn, Approval Voting, Boston, Birkhäuser, 1983.
5. Gerald Kaufman MP (Lab.) complained about the absence of the 25 per cent and 75 per cent points, but this was in the context of a broad-brush attack on the joint committee rather than a claim that he would have voted for one of these points (Hansard, Commons, 4 February 2003, col. 177). Mr Kaufman had been a member of the Royal Commission, which did not propose either 25 per cent or 75 per cent elected. No other Commons speaker took up the point.
6. Interview with Labour MP.
7. Erskine May's Treatise on The Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament, 22nd edn, ed. D. Limon and W. R. McKay, London, Butterworths, 1997, pp. 343-6.
8. Duncan Black, The Theory of Committees and Elections, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1958.
9. For the technically minded, a description of what we did is available at http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/Politics/papers/2003/ McLeanpercent20Spirlingpercent20Russell.pdf.
10. If the four 'Democrats' who mistakenly voted against 80 per cent elected are added, this number rises to 323.
11. For the avoidance of offence: 'weak' is here used in its mathematical sense of 'not contradicting' and 'strong' in its mathematical sense of 'exactly corresponding to'.