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- The uncertain boundary between politics and law - 24/11/2011Here is an interesting examination of the interaction between politics and law in the British political system, delivered by leading barrister (and future judge) Jonathan Sumption QC. Delivered as the...
- The report on funding for political parties published today outlines some interesting ideas for reforming the way that politics works in the United Kingdom, improving it in some ways but...
- Letter published in the Times, 20 August 2011 Sir, Professor Bogdanor’s warnings of possible gridlock between two elected Houses in Parliament are well made but one might question the assumption...
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- The lady in the lake - 03/02/2012Taking a break from thinking about the future of the eurozone or the prospects for a UN Parliamentary Assembly, I took a trip to 1940s California in the company of...
- Incident on the A598 - 25/01/2012This is the story of an accident. It wasn’t a bad one, but it could have been, and it set me thinking. I was pushing my daughter in her buggy...
- The Republican opponents of Barack Obama - 13/01/2012The presidential primaries are finally underway in the United States, with candidates competing for the right to be the Republican challenger to Barack Obama in November. (Obama is unopposed as...
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Are all voters equal?
Posted on 02/09/2010 | 1 CommentOne of the basic tenets of federalism is that all citizens should be equal. People living in different member states within a federation might have different rights and duties with respect to those states, but they have equal rights and duties with respect to the... -
Can Australian states survive?
Posted on 10/12/2009 | No CommentsA very interesting talk on the state of federalism in Australia yesterday, given by Geoff Anderson of Flinders University, Adelaide. The discussion about whether federalism is primarily about centralisation or decentralisation gets some extra dimensions from the discussion in Australia. On one side, there is... -
What makes an Australian?
Posted on 11/06/2008 | 2 CommentsAn interesting discussion at a Federal Union seminar this evening on the experience of federalism in Australia. It was founded as a federation in 1901, one of a series of federations created in the British empire (although one place that federalism was not tried was,... -
Federalism in Australia: How much have we learned from experience?
Posted on 11/06/2008 | No CommentsA lecture by Frank Bongiorno, Senior Lecturer, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King’s College London, at the Australian High Commission on 11 June 2008 Federalism in Australia
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