OXFORD POLITICS IN SCHOOLS: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR), Oxford University, Newsletter for Politics Teachers and Students
Oxford Politics in Schools The DPIR Newsletter for Politics teachers and Students highlights research in Oxford University’s Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) in ways that connect with the study of Politics at A Level and the Department for Education’s Politics GCE AS and A level subject content. OxPol, the Oxford Politics blog site publishes articles from academics at Oxford and other universities.
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Government in the UK The nature and sources of the British Constitution: Magna Carta 1215 An introductory account So, what was Magna Carta by Richard Elliott, DPIR Graduate Student.
What would a new Magna Carta say? Richard Elliot’s winning entry to Constitutional Reform Committee
competition for an introductory statement for a modern written constitution for the UK.
Magna Carta and historical political movements Malcom Chase, Professor of Social History and the University of Leeds, The Great Charter of Liberties, on Magna Carta and the Chartist movement Marcus Morris, a Lecturer in Modern History at Manchester Metropolitan on the link between Magna Carta and the formation of British Socialism in ‘The First Chapter’: Magna Carta and British Socialism’s struggle for freedom in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain . The impact of devolution in England In Devolution in the North of England, Arianna Giovannini, a lecturer in Politics at the University of Huddersfield, discusses devolution and regional assemblies.
Colin Talbot, Professor of Government and Public Administration and Francesca Gains, Professor of Public Policy both from University of Manchester discuss city majors as a feature of regional devolution in Government in Greater Manchester: A Mayor for all seasons and The Making of Greater Manchester Mayor – what next?
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Political Participation in the UK Democracy and participation Stuart White, Tutor in Politics at Oxford University, sets out ways constitutional conventions can be designed and how they might work in So, what is a people’s constitutional convention and in Will a constitutional convention
refound the British state
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The European Union EU Governance: Article 50 Derrick Wyatt QC explains Article 50 of the Treaty of the EU - the starting point for a negotiated withdrawal agreement, should Britain vote to leave Negotiating Brexit: the Legal Framework .
Frontispiece of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, by Abraham Bosse, 1651
Political Ideas Political theorists The BBC’s Daily Politics Show’s 'resident academic', for the series My Favourite Political Thinker, Dr Elizabeth Frazer’s concise introductions to: Mahatma Gandhi, John Locke, Peter Kropotkin, Niccolo Machiavelli, Edmund Burke, Friedrich Hayek, Mary Wollstonecraft, Ayn Rand, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Paine, EF Schumacher and Karl Marx.
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Comparative politics: government and politics of the USA Party Procedures in US politics Blake Ewing, DPIR Graduate Student, on the effects of nomination procedures for the Republican and Democratic Parties.
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Global Politics The political economy of democracy promotion, Susan Dodsworth (DPIR) on new research on how to strengthen legislatures in new democracies.
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