Parliaments and the pandemic /
Study of Parliament Group.
- ii, 208 pages
Mode of access: HL Library SharePoint. Title from cover.
"This collection of essays is about how the parliaments of the United Kingdom and the Crown Dependencies reacted to a medical and economic crisis that has dominated everyone's lives in a way that has not happened in modern times. There are two essential elements to that: how the parliaments have adjusted their own ways of behaving to reflect the duty parliamentarians share with other citizens to curb the spread of the disease together with their special duty to set an example; but also how the functions of legislation, oversight and representation have changed (and become more difficult and more challenging and, often, less effective) because of the pandemic"--
Study of Parliament Group. COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020---Government policy--Channel Islands. COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020---Government policy--Isle of Man. Parliamentary practice--Great Britain. Parliamentary practice--Channel Islands. Parliamentary practice--Isle of Man.