... and the level of involvement of Parliament. I will then examine the degree of Influence Parliament does hold over policy by explaining its involvement in the three-stage policy making process. I will then look at what Parliaments role in the British political system actually is. Philip Norton argues that throughout the world, there are three different types of legislature. Policy-making legislatures "have the capacity to amend or reject policy brought forward by the executive, and the capacity to formulate and substitute policy of their own." (Norton, p50). Policy-influencing legislatures "have the capacity to amend or reject policy brought forward by the executive, but lack the capacity to formulate and substitute policy of their own." (Norton, p50). Legislatures with little or no policy effect have the ability to do either of the above and are confined to rubber-stamping all that is put before them. Parliament is generally considered as a policy-influencing legislature, ...

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