abstract:Vernon Bogdanor, CBE, FBA (born 1943) is Research Professor at the Institute for Contemporary British History at King's College London, and a Fellow of Brasenose College, University of Oxford. He is one of Britain's foremost constitutional experts and has written extensively on political and constitutional issues.
Britain is a highly centralised state more so, in the view of VernonBogdanor, of Oxford University, even than France, the paradigm of centralised government.