Vernon Bogdanor

Articles by Vernon Bogdanor

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Family Britain 1951-57

  • 12 November 2009

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

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?

End of the party

  • 28 May 2009
  • 2 comments

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

  • 19 March 2009
  • 3 comments

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

  • 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

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

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