Just published the second volume of Selsdon’s life of Blair:
Seldon, A., Snowdon, P. and Collings, D. (2007) Blair unbound. London: Simon & Schuster.
The introduction provides a key to understanding how interpretations of Blair’s premiership and legacy are likely to develop.
A useful paper for the Tories and Europe seminar in the way it discusses European having […]
Written by Roger on November 8th, 2007 with no comments.
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Just announced, and a really important development for contemporary British history, the Economist in conjunction with Gale, a publisher, has just completed the digitalisation of this magazine back to its inception; have a look at The Economist: Historical Archive, 1843-2003 and try some searches for yourself. This will be a fabulous resource for anyone doing […]
Written by Roger on October 18th, 2007 with no comments.
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Now published and worth your while obtaining as it is in paperback:
Seldon, A. (ed.) (2007) Blair’s Britain, 1997-2007. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Comprising 28 chapters covering the major policy areas and central political themes of the period this will be an invaluable resource for you] At £15.99 it is also good value .
Also across my […]
Written by Roger on October 12th, 2007 with no comments.
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For those of you trying to make sense of the current state of the economy and why the period since the early 1990s has been ‘NICE’ (Mervyn King’s term for a non-inflationary consistently expansionary economy) you might have a look at:
‘The turning point’, The Economist, 22 September 2007, pp. 33-5.
There is much that is good […]
Written by Roger on September 25th, 2007 with no comments.
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Please call into my office (B48, 13WR) and collect a unit handbook on Tuesday 2 October (am only). The first seminar will be on Tuesday 9 October, starting at 0900. It is essential that you look through the handbook before the first meeting as we will be setting the work programme for the seminars.
Written by Roger on September 24th, 2007 with no comments.
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A political economy and comparative approach to understanding both economic and social policy reform in Britain since the 1970s:
Kus, B. (2006) ‘Neoliberalism, institutional change and the welfare state: the case of Britain and France’, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 47 (6), pp. 488-525.
see also:
Fourcade-Gourinchas, M. and Babb, S.L. (2002) ‘The rebirth of the liberal creed: […]
Written by Roger on August 3rd, 2007 with no comments.
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A varied set of additional readings, beginning with the Campbell diaries in which the reaction to them (week beginning 2 July 2007) is more interesting then the diaries themselves. Nonetheless, now added as a set text:
Campbell, A. (2007) The Blair years: extracts from the Alistair Campbell diaries. London: Hutchinson.
On the key debate over public sector […]
Written by Roger on July 18th, 2007 with no comments.
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The latest issue of British Politics, 2.2 (2007) is devoted to the current state of the Conservative Part and ten years of New Labour, especially:
Dorey, P. (2007) ‘A new direction or another false dawn?: David Cameron and the crisis of British conservatism’, British Politics, 2 (2), pp. 137-66.
Denham, A. and O’Hara, K. (2007) ‘The three […]
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The latest issue of Oxford Review of Economic Policy, vol 23.1 (Spring 2007) is devoted to the Solow growth model on its 50th anniversary, including a retrospective by Solow:
Solow, R.M. (2007) ‘The last 50 years in growth theory and the next 10’, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 23 (1), pp. 3-14.
The latest issue of the […]
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Just published (by the IPPR) and a good place to start considering the post-Blair Labour Party and government:
Pearce, N. and Margo, J. (eds) (2007) Politics for a new generation: the progressive moment. London: Palgrave. On Order.
in particular, the following chapters:
Pearce, N. and Margo, J. (2007) ‘Introduction’, in N. Pearce and J. Margo (eds) Politics […]
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