The Engagement of Theory: Recent Episodes
Oxford University
The theory of politics is sometimes seen as abstract, ivory-tower thinking, detached from reality. But the challenges that face Britain today—constitutional reform, possible secession by Scotland, our relation to the authorities in Brussels and in Strasbourg, and our views about immigration and financial equity—all involve fundamental concepts and values. And it is the mission of political theorists to think about how those values and concepts affect the issues that face our politicians and voters. So an Oxford based team has been assembled to present some of our latest thinking on these topics, to show how theory affects practice and how practice generates the problems that engage and fascinate our theorists. This podcast is a recording of a Department of Politics & International Relations Alumni event that took place in the Manor Road Building, University of Oxford, on Saturday 30 November 2013.
Iain McLean talks about his early research into the pioneering work on the mathematics of voting undertaken by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll
Iain McLean talks about his early research into the pioneering work on the mathematics of voting undertaken by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll
Jeremy Waldron talks about what the right to vote is, and isn't, and how it applies to those in the penal system
Jeremy Waldron talks about what the right to vote is, and isn't, and how it applies to those in the penal system
Iain McLean asks for a rethink of the structure of the law of the United Kingdom after A.V. Dicey
Iain McLean asks for a rethink of the structure of the law of the United Kingdom after A.V. Dicey
Daniel Butt talks about the practicalities of the paying of reparations for acts committed in the decline of Empire
Daniel Butt talks about the practicalities of the paying of reparations for acts committed in the decline of Empire