Anthony King

The British Constitution

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Produktbeschreibung

Anthony King, political commentator and distinguished academic, brings a lifetime of insight into a re-examination of the British constitution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 164mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 810g
• ISBN-13: 9780199232321
• ISBN-10: 0199232326
• Artikelnr.: 22922777

Autorenporträt

Anthony King, a Canadian by birth, came to Britain as a Rhodes Scholar. Before moving to the University of Essex in the mid 1960s, he was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He has been Professor of Government at Essex since 1969 and has also taught at Princeton and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is a member of the Academia Europaea, a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an honorary life fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Professor King writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph and broadcasts frequently on politics and elections for the BBC.

Inhaltsangabe

1: What Is a 'Constitution'?
2: The Canonical Sextet
3: Britain's Traditional Constitution
4: The Impetus to Change
5: Britain's Near Abroad
6: The Judges Come Out
7: The Ghost of Local Government
8: John Bull's Other Lands
9: Mandarins as Managers
10: Democracy Rampant
11: References to the People
12: Their Lordships
13: Great British Icons
14: Britain's New Constitution
Notes
Bibliography
Index