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Oct 2013
43m 51s

Party games: coalition government in Bri...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
About this episode
This session will look at the history of coalition government in British politics over the past 200 years and discuss some of the constitutional implications of the current Conservative-Liberal Democrat government under David Cameron and Nick Clegg. Professor Angus Hawkins is Director of Public and International Programmes. 
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