ABSTRACT
The purpose of Accountability, Impeachment and the Constitution: The Case for a Modernised Process in the United Kingdom is to explore whether impeachment, reimagined and modernised might offer a way to enhance the political accountability of the executive within the United Kingdom. It will seek to place impeachment within a political context and set out a case for how impeachment could serve as a way to protect the existing constitutional norms. This first chapter is designed to establish the groundwork for the argument advanced. It will set out the central question that will be addressed throughout, before then considering the aims of the book and the research methodology used, and providing a definition of impeachment. Finally, this chapter will provide an overview of the eight other chapters within this book.
