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The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron

Vernon Bogdanor — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:07:35 GMT

As an undergraduate at Oxford, David Cameron avoided politics. Vernon Bogdanor, his tutor back then, reflects on if, and how, the Bullingdon Boy has changed.

Nine Wartime Lives: Mass Observation and the Making of the Modern Self

Vernon Bogdanor — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:34:59 GMT

I believe in yesterday

Vernon Bogdanor — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:06:57 GMT

The history of the recent past is more popular with readers than ever � and just as well, because it performs a vital civic function

1974 and all that � the constitutional position

Vernon Bogdanor — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:41:38 GMT

In a hung parliament, Gordon Brown, like Edward Heat, would be constitutionally entitled to seek coalition

Family Britain 1951-57

Vernon Bogdanor — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:43:16 GMT

At last the tide is turning

Vernon Bogdanor — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:35:16 GMT

Until very recently, it was generally assumed that first-past-the-post was natural to Britain. Now, the country has no fewer than four other electoral systems in operation. PR is becoming difficult, if not impossible, to hold back

The battlefield of ideas

Vernon Bogdanor — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:51:49 GMT

In earlier decades, the atmosphere in the universities was optimistic, heady even, stimulated by close ties with Westminster and Whitehall. Now that close relationship seems to have gone. What went wrong, and who is to blame?

End of the party

Vernon Bogdanor — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:10:28 GMT

Unlike the Profumo affair, which had no lasting significance, the scandal over MPs� expenses is the gravest constitutional crisis of modern times

Loosening Labour�s golden straitjacket

Vernon Bogdanor — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:48:19 GMT

Economic crisis presents opportunities as well as stark threats for social democracy, writes the Oxford academic Vernon Bogdanor

The rise and fall of the political party

Vernon Bogdanor — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:00:00 GMT

In an era where individualism, not collectivism, has become the leitmotif, the mass party is dying on its feet. Political leaders, says Vernon Bogdanor, must adapt for an age in which participation reaches beyond party