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Category Archives: British and Irish Politics and Policy
Jun 16 2013
Book Review: A Life in Education and Architecture: Mary Beaumont Medd
Leave a commentTweet This book seeks to provide a detailed exploration of the relationships between individual architects, educators, artists and designers that laid the foundation and shaped the approach to designing new school buildings in postwar Britain. It explores the life and … Continue reading
Posted by: June 16, 2013
Jun 9 2013
Book Review: The Great University Gamble: Money, Markets and the Future of Higher Education
Leave a commentTweet In The Great University Gamble, Andrew McGettigan surveys the emerging brave new world of higher education, asking what the role of universities within society might become, how they might be funded, and what kind of experiences will be on offer … Continue reading
Posted by: June 9, 2013
Jun 2 2013
Book Review: Defectors and the Liberal Party 1910-2010
Leave a commentTweet This book investigates all the Liberal/Liberal Democrat MPs and former MPs who defected from the party between the elections of December 1910 and May 2010 – around one sixth of all those elected – as well as the smaller … Continue reading
Posted by: June 2, 2013
May 26 2013
Book Review: Dickens and Race
Leave a commentTweet Dickens and Race offers a unique contextualisation of Dickens’s fictional engagements with race in relation to his lesser-known journalism, with wider nineteenth-century debates about differences between humans, with issues of empire, and with the race shows of London. A potentially … Continue reading
Posted by: May 26, 2013
Tagged with: Dickens, literature, race
May 26 2013
Book Review: Refugees, Capitalism and the British State: Implications for Social Workers, Volunteers and Activists
1 CommentTweet In this period of economic crisis, public sector cuts, and escalating class struggles, Marxist theory offers social workers and service users important tools to help understand the structures of oppression they face and to devise effective means of resistance. This book … Continue reading
Posted by: May 26, 2013
Tagged with: activists, Marxist theory, refugees, social workers
May 19 2013
Book Review: The Population of the UK
Leave a commentTweet The Population of the UK explains the geographical differences in key socio-economic variables – like education, health, and work – that illustrate the UK’s stark social inequalities and how these affect everyone’s lives. Ludi Simpson thinks this book is commendably rich in quantitative … Continue reading
Posted by: May 19, 2013
Tagged with: population studies
May 19 2013
Book Review: Justifying New Labour Policy
Leave a commentTweet Justifying New Labour Policy presents a detailed empirical analysis of the ideas, language and policy of New Labour. Politicians often appeal to moral principles and arguments in their efforts to win support for new policy programmes. Yet the question of … Continue reading
Posted by: May 19, 2013
May 16 2013
Accurate predictions of property price effects can help realise transport infrastructure projects
1 CommentTweet If it were possible to predict property price effects during the planning stage of a transport project, the revenues of such schemes could be taken into account in the financing scheme. Gabriel Ahlfeldt has constructed such a tool, which may help … Continue reading
Posted by: May 16, 2013
Tagged with: infrastructure policy, transport
