Abstract
This chapter argues that the term ‘Westminster Model’ is still a useful on in categorising politico-legal systems which, although capable of accommodating much diversity in term of institutional design, share unmistakable family resemblances. It shows that, amongst Westminster Model democracies, the UK – although the originator – is now the outlier. Charting the historical development of the Westminster Model in dominions and former colonies, it demonstrates that today Westminster-derived democracies usually have written and procedurally entrenched constitutions, bills of rights, judicial review, independent ‘fourth branch’ institutions, provision for referendums, and other innovations. To include such features in a Scottish Constitution would be in keeping with the globally developed Westminster Model, not a repudiation of it.
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