The Clift and Tomlinson (2007) paper on the Keynesianism of New Labour which was criticised by Hay (2007) has brought forth a response by Clift and Tomlinson:
Clift, B. and J.D. Tomlinson (2007) ‘Complexity, constraint and New Labour’s putative neo-liberalism’, British Journal of Political Science, 37 (2), pp. 378-81.
It is extremely unlikely that this is the […]
Written by Roger on March 21st, 2007 with no comments.
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The latest issue of the journal British Politics, which alas we do not have in UBL (rather embarrassing when I’m on the editorial board), has a number of papers of interest if you can get hold of a copy, in particular on ten year’s of Blair’s premiership and the prospects for New Labour. Andrew Taylor’s […]
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The latest issue of the journal British Politics, which alas we do not have in UBL (rather embarrassing when I’m on the editorial board), has a number of papers of interest if you can get hold of a copy. I have printed off (and placed in RM) the most immediately relevant:
Tomlinson, J. (2007) ‘Mrs Thatcher’s […]
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News just received from the library, they have just obtained a copy of:
Politicos Media (1998). Party political broadcasts: the greatest hits. - Video
I suggest you get a group together and have a session to watch and discuss this.
I have also placed a copy of my recent paper on benchmarking the Thatcher years (as Middleton 2007) […]
Written by Roger on March 1st, 2007 with no comments.
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Also of relevance to TGP and DisUK:
The latest issue of Prospect, March 2007, carries a major feature on, if left vs right defined the twentieth century, what’s next? You can also follow this up on their web site.
Other things I’ve been reading recently which may be of interest:
Russell, A. and E. Fieldhouse (2005) Neither left […]
Written by Roger on February 28th, 2007 with no comments.
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I have placed today a sign up list on my office door for the reading that needs to be done for next week’s case study on the return to gold. There are ten topics and we do need to fill each one please. The handbook gives the full references for all of the reading.
In addition […]
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The latest issue of Political Studies Review, vol. 5.1 (January 2007) has a review symposium on Freedman’s recent official history of the Falklands-Malvinas War:
Rogers, P. (2007) ‘A necessary war?’, Political Studies Review, 5 (1), pp. 25-31.
Palermo, V. (2007) ‘The dialogue between history and political culture: the political reception of the work of Sir Lawrence […]
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A couple of useful papers crossed my desk this week:
Gifford, C. (2006) ‘The rise of post-imperial populism: The case of right-wing Euroscepticism in Britain’, European Journal of Political Research, 45 (5), pp. 851-69.
Nickell, S.J. (2005) ‘Practical issues in United Kingdom monetary policy, 2000-2005’, Proceedings of the British Academy, 139, pp. 1-33. Nickell was a MPC […]
Written by Roger on January 19th, 2007 with no comments.
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Last year’s 25th anniversary of the 364 economists’ letter of protest about the 1981 budget was the occasion for the IEA to produce a volume of essays on how this episode is now seen, namely:
Booth, P. (ed.) (2006) Were 364 economists all wrong?: a discussion of the impact and legacy of the 1981 budget. London: […]
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I have just ordered for the library:
Klingemann, H.-D. et al. (2006) Mapping policy preferences II: estimates for parties, electors and governments for Eastern Europe, European Union and OECD, 1990-2003. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
and
McDonald, M.D. and I. Budge (2005) Elections, parties, democracy: conferring the median mandate. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
The former is an update and extension […]
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