This book reconsiders the relationship between the British legal system and British politics.

Creating Constitutionalism? integrates political debates about legal accountability in the administrative state into analyses of British politics in the twentieth century. After addressing arguments about the role legal accountability should play, this book revisits the patterns of decisions the courts have made, arguing that they have not uniformly deferred to administrative decisions as many have argued. The growing support among elites for a written constitution is traced back to World War II.

And questions such as how Britain has chosen to govern administrative procedures and how immigrants use law to make claims against administrators are explored. Political scientists interested in comparative politics, law, and the politics of rights will find their concerns addressed in this work. This book will appeal to legal scholars interested in administrative law and those interested in comparative regulatory issues.