Strategic Recovery? The Conservatives Under David Cameron

Conservative Party Statecraft and the Politics of Coalition

This article aims to evaluate the strategic positioning and ideology of the Conservatives in Coalition, under the leadership of David Cameron. In so doing, it seeks to shed light on the key drivers of the party’s elite leadership strategy since entering government in 2010. The analysis is framed in terms of statecraft, namely the attempt to carve out elite control of the main fields of ‘high po...

The Cameron-Martin theorem

The Cameron–Erdős Conjecture

A subset A of the integers is said to be sum-free if there do not exist elements x, y, z ∈ A with x+y = z. It is shown that the number of sum-free subsets of {1, . . . , N} is O(2N/2), confirming a well-known conjecture of Cameron and Erdős.

Are Conservatives Overconfident?∗

Recent studies suggest psychological differences between conservatives and liberals, including that conservatives are more overconfident. We use a behavioral political economy model to show that while this is undoubtedly true for election years in the current era, there is no reason to believe that conservative ideologies are intrinsically linked to overconfidence. Indeed, it appears that in 19...

Liberals vs. Conservatives

John Malcom directed the Student Union plant sale held in LaFortune last week, [photo by Bob Gill] WASHINGTON [AP] Liberal tax activists, facing a heavy sched­ ule of Proposition 13-style initia­ tives and referenda on Election Day next month, are vowing to wrestle the tax issue from conservatives. Their battle cry is a call for “ tax justice,” essentially an increase in corporate tax collectio...