Thatcherism’s Legacy (SS, TB I)
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I have been reviewing for TCBH: Flinders, M., et al., (eds) (2009) The Oxford handbook of British politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. and would recommend the first three chapters; also those on rational choice, political journalism, biography and central state. Other summer reading which will be of interest: John, P. and Jennings, W.I. (2010) ?Punctuations [...]
Written by Roger Middleton on August 23rd, 2010 with no comments.
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In contemplation of the impending examination the following will be helpful: First, from the established stable of the ‘Essex’ psephologists, an update on Clarke et al. (2004): Clarke, H.D., Sanders, D., et al. (2009) Performance politics and the British voter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Second, ten years on from Rawnsley (2000) we have this journalist’s [...]
Written by Roger Middleton on April 24th, 2010 with no comments.
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The latest issue of Political Studies is a special issue (occasioned by the sixtieth anniversary of the PSA) devoted to ‘Dialogue and innovations in contemporary political science’. 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 [...]
Written by Roger Middleton on February 27th, 2010 with no comments.
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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’s (1994) scepticism about rational choice. The latest issue of Political Studies Review, 8.1 (January 2010) is a [...]
Written by Roger Middleton on January 27th, 2010 with no comments.
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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 [...]
Written by Roger Middleton on November 28th, 2009 with no comments.
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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 [...]
Written by Roger Middleton on October 7th, 2009 with no comments.
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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’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 [...]
Written by Roger Middleton on August 14th, 2009 with no comments.
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Across my desk this week: Evans, S. (2009) ‘The not so odd couple: Margaret Thatcher and one nation conservatism’, 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. [...]
Written by Roger Middleton on May 9th, 2009 with no comments.
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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’Brien, P.K. (1996) [...]
Written by Roger Middleton on December 10th, 2008 with no comments.
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Whilst in the LSE I came across the following which I’ll put on next year’s reading list: Flinders, M. (2008) Delegated governance and the British state: walking without order. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Along with Moran (2007) on the British regulatory state, this is the most compelling analysis of the current state of governance in [...]
Written by Roger Middleton on November 6th, 2008 with no comments.
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