'Talking in Fictions': Jennings on Parliament |
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| Authors: | Adam Tomkins |
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| Affiliation: | University of Glasgow. |
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| Abstract: | Sir Ivor Jennings made many ground-breaking contributions to the study of Parliament. Among them are two books written in the 1930s, while Jennings was at the peak of his powers: Parliamentary Reform in 1934, 1 and Parliament in 1939. 2 This essay offers an assessment of Jennings' scholarship on Parliament. It commences with some observations on his method, and this is followed by an outline of the argument in Parliament and an appraisal of the book's originality and ongoing significance. The essay closes with some brief remarks concerning Jennings' Parliamentary Reform . |
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| Keywords: | Anson, Sir William Bagehot, Walter Blackstone, Sir William Coke, Sir Edward Crick, Bernard Dicey, AV functionalism government opposition and House of Commons House of Lords Jennings, Sir Ivor Laski, Harold legislation London School of Economics Loughlin, Martin Low, Sidney Parliament functions of institutional analysis of parliamentary reform Robson, William |
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