Advisors and Constitutions
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The subject of this episode is ‘Advisors and Constitutions’, considering why rulers - past and present - have advisors and whether special advisors pose a threat to constitutional rule. Discussants are Ali Ansari, Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews, Senior Associate Fellow at Royal United Services Institute and currently an AHRC/ESRC FCDO Fellow at the Foreign Office; Caroline Humfress, Director of the Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research, University of St Andrews; and Jacqueline Rose, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of St Andrews and co-editor of Political Advice: Past, Present and Future (I.B. Taurus, at press: https://bit.ly/3hVmjV8). John Hudson, Professor of Legal History at the University of St Andrews, chairs the discussion.
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