Vernon Bogdanor
Articles by Vernon Bogdanor
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Books
The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron
- 25 February 2010
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.
Ideas
I believe in yesterday
- 17 December 2009
The history of the recent past is more popular with readers than ever – and just as well, because it performs a vital civic function
UK Politics
1974 and all that – the constitutional position
- 26 November 2009
In a hung parliament, Gordon Brown, like Edward Heat, would be constitutionally entitled to seek coalition
UK Politics
At last the tide is turning
- 11 November 2009
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
Education
The battlefield of ideas
- 29 October 2009
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?
UK Politics
End of the party
- 28 May 2009
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Unlike the Profumo affair, which had no lasting significance, the scandal over MPs’ expenses is the gravest constitutional crisis of modern times
UK Politics
Loosening Labour’s golden straitjacket
- 19 March 2009
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Economic crisis presents opportunities as well as stark threats for social democracy, writes the Oxford academic Vernon Bogdanor
Politics
The rise and fall of the political party
- 23 October 2006
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
