Parliamentary Influence on Brexit Legislation, 2017–2019

IF 1.3 3区社会学 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Parliamentary Affairs Pub Date : 2022-06-13 DOI:10.1093/pa/gsac014

Thomas G. Fleming, L. James

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Abstract

The UK parliament’s role in the Brexit process has been closely scrutinised and fiercely contested. Despite this, we still have relatively little systematic evidence about parliament’s role in shaping Brexit legislation. This article therefore analyses the extent and nature of parliamentary influence on Brexit-related legislation between 2017 and 2019. Using new data on the legislative passage of 13 different bills, including over 3000 proposed amendments, we measure the prominence of three different kinds of parliamentary influence, and compare this to findings from earlier periods. We show that some Brexit bills had a fairly typical parliamentary experience, with very few successful non-government amendments but numerous government concessions. However, a dramatic change from earlier periods was the large number of Brexit-related bills that were simply paused once the government encountered parliamentary difficulties. Parliament’s influence over Brexit legislation in this period therefore showed elements of both continuity and change. This finding contributes to our understanding of the Brexit process, and of parliament’s role in recent British politics.

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议会对英国脱欧立法的影响，2017-2019

英国议会在脱欧进程中的角色一直受到密切关注和激烈质疑。尽管如此，关于议会在制定英国退欧立法方面的作用，我们仍然没有相对较少的系统证据。因此，本文分析了2017年至2019年期间议会对英国脱欧相关立法的影响程度和性质。利用13项不同法案的立法通过的新数据，包括3000多项拟议修正案，我们衡量了三种不同类型的议会影响的突出程度，并将其与早期的调查结果进行了比较。我们表明，一些脱欧法案具有相当典型的议会经验，很少有成功的非政府修正案，但有许多政府让步。然而，与早期相比，一个巨大的变化是，一旦政府在议会遇到困难，大量与英国脱欧相关的法案就被暂停了。因此，这一时期议会对英国脱欧立法的影响既表现出连续性，也表现出变化性。这一发现有助于我们理解英国脱欧进程，以及议会在近期英国政治中的作用。

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Parliamentary Affairs POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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3.00

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8.30%

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期刊介绍： Parliamentary Affairs is an established, peer-reviewed academic quarterly covering all the aspects of government and politics directly or indirectly connected with Parliament and parliamentary systems in Britain and throughout the world. The journal is published in partnership with the Hansard Society. The Society was created to promote parliamentary democracy throughout the world, a theme which is reflected in the pages of Parliamentary Affairs.