Jack Hayward (political scientist)
British political scientist
Jack Ernest Shalom Hayward FBA (18 August 1931 – 8 December 2017) was an English writer and academic.
Until his death, he was the Professor of Politics at the University of Hull.
Published works
Jack Ernest Shalom Hayward (1983). Governing France: the one and indivisible republic. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 978-0-297-78235-3.
Jack Ernest Shalom Hayward (1986). The state and the market economy: industrial patriotism and economic intervention in France. Wheatsheaf Books. ISBN 978-0-7450-0012-1.
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