Articles
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‘The Liberal echo chamber’
A consideration of what Liberal politics gained and lost with Liberal clubs.
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Coalition and the 2015 election
Targeting and its effect on Liberal Democrat performance in the 2015 general election; Can Liberals learn from history?
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Madam Mayor
The first wave of Liberal women in local government leadership 1918–1939.
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Comparing coalitions
A comparison of the coalition with the Scottish experience of 1999–2007; and a look at parallels from history.
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The 2015 election campaign and its outcome
Analyses of the election result, and a look at what happened to the party’s campaigning machine.
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The impacts of coalition
The coalition and Liberal Democrat members; and the impact on the party in Scotland.
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Managing the coalition
How did the coalition work as a government? And how was the party itself managed?
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Why did it go wrong?
Analyses of why the coalition experiment ended so disastrously for the Liberal Democrats; plus a review of Seldon and Finn, The Coalition Effect 2010–2015.
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Coalition and the deluge
Interviews with Nick Clegg and ten other former Liberal Democrat ministers on their experiences of the 2010–15 coalition.