The English Constitution - Tapa blanda

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First published in 1867, this book is the most famous, the most influential and the most enduring assessment of the British parliamentary system, and of the discrepancies between how public business is transacted and how it is described. This edition includes an introduction by Richard Crossman.

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Walter Bagehot is one of the greatest political journalists of his, or indeed of any, age. He was skilled in the crafts of reporter, leader writer and editor. In his description of his contemporary scene of 1867, Bagehot hits upon the secret of British politics: the difference between myth and reality, and also between the dignified and the efficient exercise of power. This new insight provided him with just that precision-instrument of political analysis which Bentham and Mill lacked, and enabled him to penetrate the workings of that still-enigmatic mechanism, the English constitution.

“It is seldom that an introduction matches up to a great book, but R.H.S. Crossman’s analysis of Bagehot’s 'English Constitution' does so...It is unlikely that there will ever be a better introduction to the English constitution or that there will ever be a better and more readable book than Bagehot’s.”
LORD LAMPTON, 'Time and Tide'