TL reading update 24
Across my desk this week:
The latest instalment of Heppell’s work on John Major:
Heppell, T. (2007) ‘A crisis of legitimacy: the Conservative party leadership of John Major’, Contemporary British History, 21 (4), pp. 471-90.
King, A. (2007) The British constitution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Intended as a C21st update of the C19th classic, Walter’s Bagehot’s The English […]
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Across my desk this week:
The latest instalment of Heppell’s work on John Major:
Heppell, T. (2007) ‘A crisis of legitimacy: the Conservative party leadership of John Major’, Contemporary British History, 21 (4), pp. 471-90.
King, A. (2007) The British constitution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Intended as a C21st update of the C19th classic, Walter’s Bagehot’s The English constitution (1867), it is hard to think of a British political scientist better qualified then Anthony King to write on this topic and why it matters for the health of contemporary politics]
Aughey, A. (2007) The politics of Englishness. Manchester: Manchester University Press. [The right book at the right time for cutting through the predominant nonsense about national identity which is spouted at the moment by British politicians; see also Kumar (2003) and - from a very different standpoint - Ware (2007)]
Kumar, K. (2003) The making of English national identity: Englishness and Britishness in comparative perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ware, N. (2007) Who cares about Britishness?: a global view of the national identity debate. London: Arcadia Books.
There are a lot of books published these days by persons purporting to ‘know’ what the classical economists really said/really meant/would have said if they understood their own works. Here is a new edition of a classic by someone who genuinely does know what others ought to know:
O’Brien, D.P. (2004) The classcial economists revisited, 2nd edn.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
By a former chief advisor to Brown (when in opposition), founder of Demos (1993) and stalwart of Prospect, the following should make everyone think about how to regain ‘good’ politicians and politics in Britain:
Mulgan, G. (2007) Good and bad power: the ideas and betrayal of government. London: Penguin Books.
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