Matt Qvortrup teaches in Comparative Politics and Constitutional Law at Cranfield University. Qvortrup earned his doctorate at Brasenose College, Oxford. He has worked as a consultant for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and was a special envoy for the US State Department in the Sudan in 2009. The winner of the PSA Prize for best paper in British Journal of Politics and International Relations in 2012, and the Oxford University Press Law Prize 2012, he is a regular contributor to current affairs programmes on the BBC.

• Author Biographies Introduction: The British Constitution – Continuity and Change Matt Qvortrup1 The Changing Constitution in Context David Butler2 Constitutional Reform Since 1997: The Historians’ Perspective Mike Finn and Anthony Seldon3 The Constitution and the Public – How Voters Forgot the Constitution Peter Riddell4 ‘Let Me Take You to a Foreign Land’: The Political and the Legal Constitution Matt Qvortrup5 The Politics-Free Dimension to the UK Constitution Dawn Oliver6 Constitutional Conventions David Feldman7 Continuity and Change in Constitutional Conventions Joseph Jaconelli8 ‘The Three Hundred and Seven Year Itch’: Scotland and the 2014 Independence Referendum Stephen Tierney9 Constitutional Change and Parliamentary Sovereignty – the Impossible Dialectic Richard Gordon KC10 Queen Elizabeth II and the Evolution of the Monarchy Robert Blackburn11 Constitutional Justice and Constitutional Politics in France Denis BarangerEpilogue

...a must read [which] deserves a place on the bookshelf of any novice or experienced constitutional explorer.

Matt Qvortrup teaches in Comparative Politics and Constitutional Law at Cranfield University. Qvortrup earned his doctorate at Brasenose College, Oxford. He has worked as a consultant for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and was a special envoy for the US State Department in the Sudan in 2009. The winner of the PSA Prize for best paper in British Journal of Politics and International Relations in 2012, and the Oxford University Press Law Prize 2012, he is a regular contributor to current affairs programmes on the BBC.

• Author Biographies Introduction: The British Constitution – Continuity and Change Matt Qvortrup1 The Changing Constitution in Context David Butler2 Constitutional Reform Since 1997: The Historians’ Perspective Mike Finn and Anthony Seldon3 The Constitution and the Public – How Voters Forgot the Constitution Peter Riddell4 ‘Let Me Take You to a Foreign Land’: The Political and the Legal Constitution Matt Qvortrup5 The Politics-Free Dimension to the UK Constitution Dawn Oliver6 Constitutional Conventions David Feldman7 Continuity and Change in Constitutional Conventions Joseph Jaconelli8 ‘The Three Hundred and Seven Year Itch’: Scotland and the 2014 Independence Referendum Stephen Tierney9 Constitutional Change and Parliamentary Sovereignty – the Impossible Dialectic Richard Gordon KC10 Queen Elizabeth II and the Evolution of the Monarchy Robert Blackburn11 Constitutional Justice and Constitutional Politics in France Denis BarangerEpilogue

...a must read [which] deserves a place on the bookshelf of any novice or experienced constitutional explorer.

Matt Qvortrup teaches in Comparative Politics and Constitutional Law at Cranfield University. Qvortrup earned his doctorate at Brasenose College, Oxford. He has worked as a consultant for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and was a special envoy for the US State Department in the Sudan in 2009. The winner of the PSA Prize for best paper in British Journal of Politics and International Relations in 2012, and the Oxford University Press Law Prize 2012, he is a regular contributor to current affairs programmes on the BBC.

• Author Biographies Introduction: The British Constitution – Continuity and Change Matt Qvortrup1 The Changing Constitution in Context David Butler2 Constitutional Reform Since 1997: The Historians’ Perspective Mike Finn and Anthony Seldon3 The Constitution and the Public – How Voters Forgot the Constitution Peter Riddell4 ‘Let Me Take You to a Foreign Land’: The Political and the Legal Constitution Matt Qvortrup5 The Politics-Free Dimension to the UK Constitution Dawn Oliver6 Constitutional Conventions David Feldman7 Continuity and Change in Constitutional Conventions Joseph Jaconelli8 ‘The Three Hundred and Seven Year Itch’: Scotland and the 2014 Independence Referendum Stephen Tierney9 Constitutional Change and Parliamentary Sovereignty – the Impossible Dialectic Richard Gordon KC10 Queen Elizabeth II and the Evolution of the Monarchy Robert Blackburn11 Constitutional Justice and Constitutional Politics in France Denis BarangerEpilogue

...a must read [which] deserves a place on the bookshelf of any novice or experienced constitutional explorer.