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dc.contributor.authorSkjoensberg, Max
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-11T13:30:06Z
dc.date.available2019-03-11T13:30:06Z
dc.date.issued2016-12
dc.identifier.citationSkjoensberg , M 2016 , ' Lord Bolingbroke’s theory of party and opposition ' , The Historical Journal , vol. 59 , no. 4 , pp. 947-973 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X15000485en
dc.identifier.issn0018-246X
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 255867571
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: e9c98f21-dc24-4c80-ab4d-396b0af185ca
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 84964350636
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/17252
dc.description.abstractBolingbroke has been overlooked by intellectual historians in the last few decades, at least in comparison with ‘canonical’ thinkers. This article examines one of the most important but disputable aspects of his political thought: his views on political parties and his theory of opposition. It aims to demonstrate that Bolingbroke's views on party have been misunderstood and that it is possible to think of him as an advocate of political parties rather than the ‘anti-party’ writer he is commonly known as. It has been suggested that Bolingbroke prescribed a state without political parties. By contrast, this article seeks to show that Bolingbroke was in fact the promoter of a very specific party, a systematic parliamentary opposition party in resistance to what he perceived as the Court Whig faction in power. It will also be argued that Bolingbroke at no time envisaged a final end to political conflict and that his opposition party should not be interpreted as a party to end all parties.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofThe Historical Journalen
dc.rights© Cambridge University Press 2016. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X15000485en
dc.subjectD204 Modern Historyen
dc.subject.lccD204en
dc.titleLord Bolingbroke’s theory of party and oppositionen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Historyen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X15000485
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttp://eprints.lse.ac.uk/68211/en


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