This volume examines the origins and development of the pressure group, INQUEST, and its struggle for penal reform, against the backdrop of the intense political and social upheaval that characterized the late 1970s and 1980s.
Lobbying From Below Summary
Lobbying From Below by Mick Ryan
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Table of Contents
Introducing INQUEST and inquests: inquests and coroners; causes for concern. Origins: context and background; beginnings; enter the GLC. Campaigns: lobbying from below; the parliamentary road. Defining issues: deaths in police care, custody and during arrest; prison suicides; psychiatric deaths; asylum seekers. Other issues: disasters; deaths at work; race and gender. Keeping afloat: funding and finance; inquest lawyers' group; management and managerialism. Conclusion: the balance sheet; the politics of inquests; the rhetoric and practice of opposition; pressure groups, INQUEST and the limits of political science.
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