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	<title>Professor Roger Middleton</title>
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	<description>Professor of the History of Political Economy, University of Bristol</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>TL reading update 36</title>
		<link>http://www.rogermiddleton.org.uk/2010/02/27/tl-reading-update-36/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Middleton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest issue of Political Studies is a special issue (occasioned by the sixtieth anniversary of the PSA) devoted to &#8216;Dialogue and innovations in contemporary political science&#8217;. Three articles will be of especial interest:
Dunleavy, P. (2010) ‘New worlds in political science’, Political Studies, 58 (2), pp. 239-65.
and the debate:
Norton, A. (2010) ‘Politics against history: temporal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TL reading update 35</title>
		<link>http://www.rogermiddleton.org.uk/2010/01/27/tl-reading-update-35/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Middleton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest crop of PSA journals yields:
Hampsher-Monk, I. and Hindmoor, A. (2010) ‘Rational choice and interpretive evidence: caught between a rock and a hard place?’ Political Studies, 58 (1), pp. 47-65.
which builds upon Green and Shapiro&#8217;s (1994) scepticism about rational choice.
The latest issue of Political Studies Review, 8.1 (January 2010) is a symposium on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TL reading update 34</title>
		<link>http://www.rogermiddleton.org.uk/2009/11/28/tl-reading-update-34/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Middleton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Somehow I missed this when it appeared: a themed issue of Cambridge Journal of Economics devoted to the economics of New Labour. Papers include:
Kitson, M. and Wilkinson, F. (2007) ‘The economics of New Labour: policy and performance’, Cambridge Journal of Economics , 31 (6), pp. 805-16.
Coutts, K., et al. (2007) ‘Structural change under New Labour’, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TL reading update 33</title>
		<link>http://www.rogermiddleton.org.uk/2009/10/07/tl-reading-update-33/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Middleton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Institute for Fiscal Studies has just published a most useful briefing document on public expenditure since the Second World War, A survey of public spending in the UK
In preparing for that part of seminar 1 devoted to Downs and later work there is a paper just published in the British Journal of Politics and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TL reading update 32</title>
		<link>http://www.rogermiddleton.org.uk/2009/08/14/tl-reading-update-31-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Middleton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest issue of the BJPIR, 11.3 (2009)  has a special section on the sub-prime crisis in Britain. Particularly interesting is a further instalment of Colin Crouch&#8217;s privatised Keynesianism hypothesis and a comparative paper by Colin Hay on UK-Ireland (especially housing) inflation:
Crouch, C. (2009) ‘Privatised Keynesianism: an unacknowledged policy regime’, British Journal of Politics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TL reading update 31</title>
		<link>http://www.rogermiddleton.org.uk/2009/05/09/tl-reading-update-31/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 08:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Middleton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Across my desk this week:
Evans, S. (2009) &#8216;The not so odd couple: Margaret Thatcher and one nation conservatism&#8217;, Contemporary British History, 23 (1), pp. 101-21.
Cox, M. J. (2009) ‘Why did we get the end of the Cold War wrong?’ British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 11 (2), pp.161-76.
Allen, N. and H. ward (2009) ‘&#8221;Moves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TL reading update 30</title>
		<link>http://www.rogermiddleton.org.uk/2009/05/01/tl-reading-update-30/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 08:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Middleton</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Thatcherism: Genesis &amp; Performance (SF, TB II)</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lastest issue of Prospect (May 2009, pp. 32-6) carries an article by David Willetts, &#8216;The meaning of Margaret&#8217;, one of the few contemporary Conservatives who was both a participant-observer of the 1980s and is contributing interestingly to the redefinition of contemporary Conservatism today. I have placed a copy in RM.

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		<title>TL reading update 29</title>
		<link>http://www.rogermiddleton.org.uk/2009/04/16/tl-reading-update-29/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Middleton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At a recent conference I heard a paper on US-UK tax reform during the Thatcher-Reagan era. This had a number of references which may be of interest:
Smith, G. A. (1990) Reagan and Thatcher. London: Bodley Head.
O&#8217;Sullivan, J. (2006) The president, the pope and the prime minister: three who changed the world. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing.
Wapshott, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TGP reading update 10</title>
		<link>http://www.rogermiddleton.org.uk/2009/03/10/tgp-reading-update-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Middleton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s Guardian carried an article (&#8216;How the miner&#8217;s strike came close to being settled&#8217;) which will be of interest not just on the miner&#8217;s strike but the broader issue of how later revelations may change interpretations of an episode. The article refers to a new book by two journalists:
Beckett, F. and Hencke, D. (2009) Marching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TL reading update 28</title>
		<link>http://www.rogermiddleton.org.uk/2008/12/10/tl-reading-update-28/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Middleton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Political memoir and contemporary history
I was recently asked for some reading about the utility of political memoirs, especially, although not exclusively, in relation to Thatcher. Here are some key items:
Begin with the series of papers in Contemporary British History, 10.4 (1996). The library cannot locate this issue of the journal:
O&#8217;Brien, P.K. (1996) ‘Is political biography [...]]]></description>
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