Opposition questions

Government and Opposition

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1997, Pages

  Parry, Geraint ^a  

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EID: 0039921607     PISSN: 0017257X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-7053.1997.tb00440.x     Document Type: Review

References (11)

1. G. Ionescu and I. de Madariaga, Opposition, London, Watts, 1968, p. 2.
2. R. A. Dahl (ed.), Political Oppositions in Western Democracies, New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1966. This was followed by R. A. Dahl (ed.), Regimes and Oppositions, New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1973.
3. R. A. Dahl (ed.), Political Oppositions in Western Democracies, New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1966. This was followed by R. A. Dahl (ed.), Regimes and Oppositions, New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1973.
4. Allen Potter, 'Great Britain: Opposition with a Capital "O"', in Dahl (ed.), Political Oppositions, op. cit., pp. 3-33.
5. See A.S. Foord, His Majesty's Opposition 1714-1830, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1964, p. 1.
6. Classically on such rhetoric see Quentin Skinner, 'The Principles and Practice of Opposition: The Case of Bolingbroke versus Walpole', in N. McKendrick (ed.), Historical Perspectives: Studies in English Thought and Society in Honour of J. H. Plumb, London, Europa Publications, 1974, pp. 93-128.
7. Dahl, 'Preface', Political Oppositions, op. cit., p. xiv.
8. Amongst a growing literature see J. Fishkin, Democracy and Deliberation: New Directions for Democratic Reform, New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1991; J. Burnheim, Is Democracy Possible?, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1994; and A. Gutmann and D. Thompson, Democracy and Disagreement, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1996.
9. Amongst a growing literature see J. Fishkin, Democracy and Deliberation: New Directions for Democratic Reform, New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1991; J. Burnheim, Is Democracy Possible?, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1994; and A. Gutmann and D. Thompson, Democracy and Disagreement, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1996.
10. Amongst a growing literature see J. Fishkin, Democracy and Deliberation: New Directions for Democratic Reform, New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1991; J. Burnheim, Is Democracy Possible?, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1994; and A. Gutmann and D. Thompson, Democracy and Disagreement, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1996.
11. The essays in this collection were first presented at a Conference on the Repositioning of Opposition sponsored by Government and Opposition and held at the University of Reading. In addition to the contributors the following delegates attended: Sir Nicholas Bayne, Professor Richard Bellamy (University of Reading), Professor Michael Biddiss (University of Reading), Professor Christoph Bluth (University of Reading), Dr Ken Dark (University of Reading), Miss Sarah Evans (University of Reading), Mr Ken Gladdish (University of Reading), Professor Roy Gregory (University of Reading), Professor Charles Hauss (University of Reading), Dr Jude Howell (University of East Anglia), Dr Barry Jones (University of Reading), Mrs Rosalind Jones (Government and Opposition), Dr Sunil Khilnani (Birkbeck College, University of London), Dr Andy Knapp (University of Reading), Professor Isabel de Madariaga (University of London), Professor Elizabeth Meehan (Queen's University, Belfast), Dr Patrizia Messina (University of Padua), Professor Kenneth Minogue (London School of Economics), Professor Gordon Smith (London School of Economics), Professor Sir Trevor Smith (Vice-Chancellor, University of Ulster), Professor Alan Ware (Worcester College, Oxford), Professor Roger Williams (Vice-Chancellor, University of Reading) and Dr Stewart Wood (Madgalen College, Oxford).