TL reading update 43

Knowing how much some people seem to like memoirs here at least is a way of thinking more systematically about them: Richards, D. and Mathers, H. (2010) ?Political memoirs and New Labour: interpretations of power and the “club rules”?, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 12 (4), pp. 498-522. A neat quantitative study, again [...]

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Knowing how much some people seem to like memoirs here at least is a way of thinking more systematically about them:

Richards, D. and Mathers, H. (2010) ?Political memoirs and New Labour: interpretations of power and the “club rules”?, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 12 (4), pp. 498-522.

A neat quantitative study, again showing how systematic study can be brought to subjects hitherto considered basically the realm of qualitative sources:

Jennings, W.I., et al. (2011) ?The agenda of British government: the speech from the throne, 1911-2008?, Political Studies, 59 (1), pp. 74-98.

Relevant for seminar 1:
Adcock, R., et al. (eds) (2007) Modern political science: Anglo-American exchanges since 1880. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

The last of the Toynbee verdicts:
Toynbee, P. and Walker, D. (2010) The verdict: did Labour change Britain? London: Granta.

Contemporary Conservatism:
Snowdon, P. (2010) Back from the brink: the extraordinary fall and rise of the Conservative Party. London: Harper Press.
Bale, T. (2010) The Conservative Party: from Thatcher to Cameron. London: Polity.

On the New Right:
Peck, J. (2010) Constructions of neoliberal reason. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mirowski, P. and Plehwe, D., (eds) (2009). The road from Mont Pelerin: the making of the neoliberal thought collective. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

New Labour:
Shaw, E. (2007)
Losing Labour’s soul: New Labour and the Blair government, 1997-2007. London: Routledge. [There is a really useful symposium on this in British Politics, 6.1 (2011), pp. 101-25 with Anderson, Kelly and Wickham-Jones, with a response by Shaw]
Hale, S. (2010) Blair’s community: communitarian thought and New Labour. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

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