Finer's Sixth Constitution: The Continuing Debate on a Written Document for Britain

In: Government & opposition: an international journal of comparative politics, Band 29, Heft 5, S. 652-675

Abstract

It is a Recurrent Theme of Comments on Sammy Finer's writing that, like his talk, it dazzled. Perhaps, as he himself said of his Compurutiue Government text compared to his own lectures, the written version might be 'less picturesque and Mediterranean' but it could still enliven the most apparently dull topics within political science. Thus it may seem curious to draw attention to a work of his which betrays fewer of these qualities. The work is Five constitutions published in 1979.