Department News
In 1975 Margaret Thatcher defeated Edward Heath for the Leadership of the Conservative Party. Both have a firm claim to be the Prime Minister with the humblest origin. Both resigned after failing to defeat a challenge to their leadership on the first ballot. In the words of Malcolm Rifkind, both were ‘strong-willed, stubborn and convinced of their own rectitude’ (Thatcher’s most famous quality but also one that Tony Blair cited in his 2005 eulogy for Ted Heath). But these similarities are as tittle tattle compared to the fact that as prime minister both faced the same governing challenge, the same kernel of the same problem: how to govern a country that some said had become ungovernable. |
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Congratulations to Spyros Kosmidis, who has been awarded a grant from Oxford University’s John Fell OUP Research Fund. |
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Congratulations to Catherine de Vries, who has been awarded a grant from Oxford University’s John Fell OUP Research Fund. |
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Every liberal democracy has laws or codes against hate speech—except the United States. For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Against this absolutist view, Jeremy Waldron argues powerfully that hate speech should be regulated as part of our commitment to human dignity and to inclusion and respect for members of vulnerable minorities. |
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In the wake of the Italian foreign minister’s resignation, David Hine was interviewed by the Italian newspaper Lettera43 on the state of Italian foreign policy. |
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Iain McLean is featured in a House of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee report entitled 'Do we need a constitutional convention for the UK?' that was published on 28 March. The report asks whether the Government should consider how the increasingly devolved parts of the United Kingdom interact with each other, and what the residents of the UK want the Union to look like. |
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Scott Moore, a DPhil student in Politics, has published an op-ed in The International Herald Tribune (29 March 2013) on efforts to alleviate water scarcity in China. |
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Congratulations to Petra Schleiter, who has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for a project entitled 'Surviving busts and exploiting booms: the economy, constitutional variation and cabinet survival in Europe'. |
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Congratulations to Catherine De Vries, who has been awared a British Academy grant for a project entitled 'For better and for worse? Grievance asymmetry in economic voting'. |
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Congratulations to Richard Caplan, who has been awarded a British Academy mid-career fellowship for a project entitled 'Measuring Peace Consolidation'. |
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