Word: bogdanor
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Amid the burgeoning scandals, the question remains, Does it matter? The British are often tolerant of people's weaknesses and foibles. "The monarchy has not lost the support of public opinion," claims Vernon Bogdanor, Oxford's constitutional expert, and indeed, according to a Gallup poll, support for ending it has held steady at 15% for the past five or six years. Republicanism remains, as author Julian Barnes pointed out in the New Yorker, "a spindly growth." The Guardian, a newspaper that endorses it, ran a poll a year ago that showed support for a republic...
...upward social mobility, increased access to property -- has lifted most of them into the middle class and deprived socialist parties of their natural electoral base. "As a result of economic changes, the working class all over the West has been shrinking since the 1960s," says Oxford University lecturer Vernon ) Bogdanor. "The old icons, the old ideology are outmoded." That leads some observers to pronounce the movement dead. "It's finished," says French social philosopher Jean-Francois Revel. "It was a great intellectual adventure that turned out to be a historical parenthesis...
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