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Apr 26, 2024 · Marquand called them “four distinct strands of rhetoric and feeling”: Whig imperialism, Tory nationalism, democratic centralism (the term Sidney Webb used when he helped turn Labour into a governing party), and democratic republicanism.
At the time of his death, Marquand was a visiting fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Oxford and Honorary Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield. Marquand's writings are broadly based upon issues surrounding British politics and social democracy.
Well, in that belief, Marquand is simply being a Unitarian and confronting the faith’s not always comforting challenges and responsibilities. Or should one focus on the fact that a formerly famous author had a less than perfect father and became a less than perfect husband and father?
- Emily Mace
May 9, 2024 · Marquand’s ambition to develop a ‘new-model, libertarian, decentralist social democracy’ in UK politics has remained so far unrealised. Yet he posed the existential question of British progressive politics more sharply than any other thinker.
Nov 23, 2008 · In his grand study of Britain's democratic traditions, David Marquand offers a history that is also a masterclass in politics.
Apr 26, 2024 · Marquand remembered: an open mind. Neal Lawson. David Marquand, who aged 89 died earlier this week, was one of the founding Editorial Advisory Board members of this journal and, intellectually, one of its leading lights. David was one of a small band of intellectual giants of social democracy in the latter decades of the 20th century, and into ...
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Marquand's book, by contrast, suggests an inherently unstable polity which needs a new settlement. He seeks a republican constitutional democracy to transcend managed populism.
