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Finally catching up on a bit of journal reading, and need to draw attention to some recent issues of Political Quarterly.
Vol 79.2 (2008) has a symposium on inheritance tax.
Vol 79.1 (2008) has a symposium to mark the October 2007 inauguration of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Also caught my attention:
Crick, B. (2008) ‘The four […]
Written by Roger on June 4th, 2008 with no comments.
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Across my desk this past couple of weeks (also of some relevance to TL):
The latest issue of the British Journal of Political Science, 38.2 (2008) has four papers of interest:
Jacobs, A.M. (2008) ‘The politics of when: redistribution, investment and policy making for the long term’, British Journal of Political Science, 38 (2), pp. 193-220.
Denny, K. […]
Written by Roger on February 14th, 2008 with no comments.
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Across my desk this week:
The latest issue of the EJ has two papers of particular interest, the first demonstratinbg that labour market flexibility has increased in Britain and the second a concise account of why the new political economy matters for policy:
Barwell, R.D. and Schweitzer, M.E. (2007) ‘The incidence of nominal and real wage rigidities […]
Written by Roger on December 14th, 2007 with no comments.
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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 […]
Written by Roger on December 2nd, 2007 with no comments.
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Across my desk this week:
McLaren, L. and Johnson, M. (2007) ‘Resources, group conflicts and symbols: explaining anti-immigration hostility in Britain’, Political Studies, 55 (4), pp. 709-32. [Makes good use of BSA materials to produce a conclusion that self-interest is not a prime determinant of attitudes towards immigration]
Latest volume in the Palgrave Contemporary Political Studies series:
Kuhn, […]
Written by Roger on November 21st, 2007 with no comments.
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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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