BRITAIN’S PARLIAMENT
“Parliamentary Government in England,” by Harold J. Laski (London: Allen and Unwin).
As a treatise, guide an'd handbook, “Parliamentary ‘Government in England” is an invaluable work for political students. The author, Professor Laski, is perhaps the greatest authority on the British Parliamentary system, and his masterly .survey, backed by the weight of his professorship of political science in the University of London, reveals him also as a writer of clarity and briskness who contrives to explore his subject fully within 450 pages. Here is the successor to Bagehot’s “English Constitution,” in which are discussed from it contemporary angle the problems confronting Great Britain as a Parliamentary democracy.
“It is important for me to emphasize,” writes the author in his preface, “that this book is not a formal description of the working of Parliamentary government in England, but essentially a commentary limited to certain aspects of its working.” These aspects include the party system, the Civil Service, the judiciary and the relationship of Parliament to the monarchy.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 72, 17 December 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)
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