文档介绍：BAGEHOT
The English Constitution
Walter Bagehot’s anatomy of the English constitution is a classic of English
political writing. In this new Cambridge Texts edition it appears for the first
time in its original () book version, with Bagehot’s original conclusion,
and the substantial introduction written for the second edition of . Paul
Smith’s introduction places Bagehot’s views in the context of contemporary
events and prevalent views of the working of the constitution, indicating their
relation to his developing ideas on the anthropological and sociological
springs of authority. He assesses the accuracy of Bagehot’s account of parlia-
mentary government in operation, and the way in which Bagehot exemplifies
the difficulties faced by British liberalism ing to terms with the
approach of democracy. All the usual student-friendly features of the
Cambridge Texts series are present, including a select bibliography and brief
biographies of key figures, and annotation which explains some of Bagehot’s
more arcane contemporary allusions.
was formerly Professor of Modern History at the University of
Southampton. He is the author of Disraeli: A Brief Life () and has edited
Government and the Armed Forces in Britain –() and The Self-
Fashioning of Disraeli –(, with C. B. Richmond).
CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE
HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Series editors
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Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Cambridge
Q S
Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge
Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought is now firmly estab-
lished as the major student textbook series in political theory. It aims to make
available to students all the most important texts in the history of western
political thought, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century. All the
familiar classic texts will be included, but the series seeks at the same time to
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