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 […]
Written by Roger 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. 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.
Written by Roger on May 1st, 2009 with no comments.
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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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Yesterday’s Guardian carried an article (‘How the miner’s strike came close to being settled’) which will be of interest not just on the miner’s strike but the broader issue of how later revelations may change interpretations of an episode. The article refers to a new book by two journalists:
Beckett, F. and Hencke, D. (2009) Marching […]
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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) ‘Is political biography […]
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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 Britain]
Jenkins, […]
Written by Roger on November 6th, 2008 with no comments.
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