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⁵ Greaves, H. R. G., The British Constitution (New York: Macmillan, 1941)Google Scholar, published in Britain by Allen & Unwin, 1938.

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⁷ Gooch, Robert K., The Government of England (New York: Van Nostrand, 1937).Google Scholar There were, I believe, one or more other interwar American-authored texts comparable to Gooch's.

⁸ Ogg, Frederic Austin, English Government and Politics (New York: Macmillan, 1929, 1936).Google Scholar A most distinguished American-produced predecessor of Ogg's book was the two-volume work by Lowell, A. Lawrence, The Government of England (New York: Macmillan, 1908).Google Scholar Despite its length, it might have served as a text in the absence of works designed primarily for the purpose.

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¹² I have no full count of how many American political science departments offer an exclusively British politics course for undergraduates. Among five large mid-western state universities whose catalogues I looked at, two listed such a course.

¹³ Beer, Samuel H.. The British Political System (New York: Random House, 1974).Google Scholar Its 243 pages are reprinted as a paperback from Beer, Samuel H. and Ulam, Adam B., eds, The Major Political Systems of Europe (New York: Random House, 1973).Google Scholar

¹⁴ Dragnich, Alex N. and Rasmussen, Jorgen S., Major European Governments (Chicago: Dorsey, 1986).Google Scholar Rasmussen is a well-known specialist on British politics and is the executive secretary of the British Politics Group, which serves American academics interested in Britain.

¹⁵ Bailey, Sydney D., British Parliamentary Democracy (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1958Google Scholar; 1978 reprint of 1971 edition still available); Moodie, Graeme C., The Government of Great Britain (New York: Crowell, 1961 and later editions)Google Scholar; and Rose, Richard, Politics in England (Boston: Little, Brown, 1964)Google Scholar and in successive editions, including that of 1986 whose British publication in 1985 I shall note later.

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³⁷ The abridged college edition of this classic work by David Butler and Donald Stokes has been most useful for students: Political Change in Britain (New York: St. Martin's, 1976).Google Scholar

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