Larry Siedentop

Profile: Full name: Larry Siedentop Area of interest: Political history Journals/Organisation: Email: Personal website: Website: Blog: Representation: David Higham Networks:

Biography: About: Education: Hope College, Michigan; Harvard University: AM degree; Magdalen College, Oxford - DPhil degree on the thought of Joseph de Maistre and Maine de Biran (under the supervision of Sir Isaiah Berlin) Career: Dr. Larry Siedentop was for three decades Fellow of Keble College and Faculty Lecturer in Political Thought at the University of Oxford. He is one of the most distinguished and penetrating political historians Current position/role: political historian also writes/written for: Other roles/Main role: Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: "I am in favour of building Europe slowly", interview by Sylvester Hoogmoed, 2001 Broadcast media: Video: Video: Controversy/Criticism: Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other:

Books & Debate: File:Larry Siedentop Democracy in Europe.jpg The Nature of political theory OCLC 8553529, 1983 (with David Miller) Tocqueville OCLC 28890135, 1994 Francois Guizot: The history of civilization in Europe OCLC 59654229 - editor, 1997 Democracy in Europe OCLC 45630498, 2001 Latest work: Speaking/Appearances: Debate:

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Articles: It is time to update the ancient constitution - Britain needs a charter of rights, a parliament reformed by serious bicameralism and symmetrical devolution - 24th May, 2009 The Dutch MP and the retreat of British liberalism - 16th February 2009 Europe is failing to restore idealism - The referendum is a device viewed with suspicion by those who believe in representative government. Yet first the French and Dutch, and now the Irish, have used the referendum to defend representative governmen - 1st July 2008 Do you realise Europe is in the throes of civil war? - A battle of ideas that is blinding the West - Europe is in the midst of an undeclared “civil war” — a struggle that has been boiling away since the 18th century. It is a war between religious believers and secularists - The Times, 27th February 2007 Give power to the people - Larry Siedentop says we should wake up to the yawning democratic deficit across Europe - The Spectator, 4th August 2001 Aux armes, citoyens! The French way will ruin Europe - We need their idealism, but must fight their love of the autocratic state - The Independent, 2nd July 2000 A nation stuck in selfish mode - Too much liberalism is quite the wrong diagnosis for British decline - 14th October 1993

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