The latest issue of Political Studies Review, vol. 5.1 (January 2007) has a review symposium on Freedman’s recent official history of the Falklands-Malvinas War:
Rogers, P. (2007) ‘A necessary war?’, Political Studies Review, 5 (1), pp. 25-31.
Palermo, V. (2007) ‘The dialogue between history and political culture: the political reception of the work of Sir Lawrence […]
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A couple of useful papers crossed my desk this week:
Gifford, C. (2006) ‘The rise of post-imperial populism: The case of right-wing Euroscepticism in Britain’, European Journal of Political Research, 45 (5), pp. 851-69.
Nickell, S.J. (2005) ‘Practical issues in United Kingdom monetary policy, 2000-2005’, Proceedings of the British Academy, 139, pp. 1-33. Nickell was a MPC […]
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Last year’s 25th anniversary of the 364 economists’ letter of protest about the 1981 budget was the occasion for the IEA to produce a volume of essays on how this episode is now seen, namely:
Booth, P. (ed.) (2006) Were 364 economists all wrong?: a discussion of the impact and legacy of the 1981 budget. London: […]
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I have just ordered for the library:
Klingemann, H.-D. et al. (2006) Mapping policy preferences II: estimates for parties, electors and governments for Eastern Europe, European Union and OECD, 1990-2003. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
and
McDonald, M.D. and I. Budge (2005) Elections, parties, democracy: conferring the median mandate. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
The former is an update and extension […]
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An excellent review article on finance and growth has just been published:
Bordo, M.D. and Rousseau, P.L. (2006) ‘Legal-political factors and the historical evolution of the finance-growth link’, European Review of Economic History, 10 (3), pp. 421-44.
I have also come across a reasonably accessible (for the non-economist) review article which will bring you up to date […]
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