Obituary: Sir Bernard Crick (1929-2008)

Jeffrey presents an obituary for British political theorist and writer Sir Bernard Crick, who died on 2008 at the age of 79. His most influential academic work was in the first decade of his career, with two influential books The American Science of Politics (1959) and The Reform of Parliament (1964)--sandwiching his classic, In Defence of Politics (1962; 1964). His biggest impacts were much later: the prototype he drew up in 1995 with David Millar on how the future Scottish Parliament should work, much of which was adopted when the Parliament was established in 1999; and the work he led for David Blunkett on citizenship education and naturalization into UK citizenship between 1997 and 2005.