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 and turning points in […]
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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 assessment from the […]
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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 against history: temporal […]
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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 symposium on the […]
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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 New Labour’, […]
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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 and […]
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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 […]
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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. ward (2009) ‘”Moves […]
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The lastest issue of Prospect (May 2009, pp. 32-6) carries an article by David Willetts, ‘The meaning of Margaret’, 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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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’Sullivan, J. (2006) The president, the pope and the prime minister: three who changed the world. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing.
Wapshott, […]
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