Baroness Shirley Williams: 'Are Political Parties Fit for Purpose?'
Duration: 50 mins 45 secs
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| Description: | Public lecture by Baroness Williams of Crosby, former Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords and Professor Emeritus of Elective Politics at Harvard University. This lecture was held at St Edmund's College on Friday 26 June 2015 as part of the Themed Lecture Series: 'Ethical Standards in Public Life' co-sponsored by the Von Hugel Institute, Cambridge, St Mary’s University Twickenham and Las Casas Institute, Blackfriars, Oxford. Weblink: http://www.vhi.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/events/lecture-series2014-15/lecture2-2015 |
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| Created: | 2015-06-29 21:58 |
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| Collection: | Von Hugel Institute |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Von Hügel Institute |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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| Keywords: | Government; Party system; Ethical Standards; UK; political class; |
| Explicit content: | No |
| Abstract: | Baroness Williams asks the question as to whether the current political parties and the party system itself is fit for purpose, that is, whether they still perform that key function of legitimately representing the nation in its government. |
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