Political tactics
By: edited by Michael James, Cyprian Blamires and Catherine Pease-Watkin.
Contributors: James, Michael.; Blamires, Cyprian.; Pease-Watkin, Catherine.; Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832.
Series: The collected works of Jeremy Bentham
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford [Oxfordshire]; New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Great Britain. Parliament -- Rules and practice; Parliamentary practice
Other titles: Political writings
Description: Political Tactics, composed for the Estates General in the months just prior to the outbreak of the French Revolution, is one of Bentham's most original works. It contains the first theoretical analysis of parliamentary procedure ever written.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"The present text is, with a few small changes, the text of 'An Essay on Political Tactics' which appeared in the Bowring edition of The Works of Jeremy Bentham, published in 1838-43"--P. xiii.