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Book reviewed in this article: Uniting the United Kingdom? The Making of British History, edited by Alexander Grant and Keith J. Stringer. Conquest and Union: Fashioning a British State 1485–1725, edited by Steven G. Ellis and Sarah Barber. A Union for Empire: Political Thought and the Union of 1707, edited by John Robertson. The British Problem, c.1534–1707, edited by Brendan Bradshaw and John Morrill. Macmillan. Three Nations—A Common History? England, Scotland, Ireland and British History c.1600–1920, edited by Ronald G. Asch. Brockmeyer. Scots and Britons: Scottish Political Thought and the Union of 1603, edited by Roger A. Mason. The Monarchy and the Constitution, by Vernon Bogdanor. The Hidden Wiring: Unearthing the British Constitution, by Peter Hennessy. Prime Minster, Cabinet and Core Executive, edited by R. A. W. Rhodes and Patrick Dunleavy. SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party, by Ivor Crewe and Anthony King. Enlightenment's Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age, by John Gray. The Way We Live Now, by Richard Hoggart. Arts and Cultures: The History of the 50 Years of the Arts Council of Great Britain, by Andrew Sinclair. The Faber Book of Science, edited by John Carey. But is it True? by Aaron Wildavsky. Orchestrating Europe: The Informal Politics of the European Union 1973–95, by Keith Middlemas. Living Islam:From Samarkand to Stomoway, by Akbar S. Ahmed. Jihad vs. McWorld: How the Planet is both Falling Apart and Coming Together and What This Means for Democracy, by Benjamin Barber. Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity, by Francis Fukuyama.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Social democracy: Is there any hope left?
 HELEN THOMPSON Making Capitalism Fit for Society, by Colin Crouch. And once again: Social democracy, what is to be done?
 Michele Di Donato Progressive Politics after the Crash. Governing from the Left, edited by Olaf Cramme, Patrick Diamond and Michael McTernan. The surge of ‘post‐ism’: no more comprehensive solutions?
 Derek Hook Psychoanalysis and Social Involvement. Interpretation and Action, by Uri Hadar. A voice from Wales: Unionism, Scotland and the case for federalism
 Jonathan Bradbury The Reformed Union, The UK as a Federation, by David Melding. Democracies don't bluff
 Gianfranco Pasquino The Confidence Trap. A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present, by David Runciman. The revolutionary Pankhurst
 June Hannam Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire, by Katherine Connelly. Orwell, the patriotic rebel
 Lindsay Duguid George Orwell: English Rebel by Robert Colls. Getting on and getting old
 Brian Groombridge Out of Time. The Pleasures and Perils of Ageing, by Lynne Segal. Alan Johnson: the genuine (working‐class) article?
 D. J. Taylor This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood, by Alan Johnson.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Capitalism with a Poker Face
DICK POUNTAIN Cool Capitalism, by Jim McGuigan. Reinvigorating the left—again?
Michael Newman In Search of Social Democracy: Responses to Crisis and Modernisation, edited by John Callaghan, Nina Fishman, Ben Jackson and Martin McIvor Imperialism—again?
Vassilis K. Fouskas Imperialism and Global Political Economy, by Alex Callinicos Rethinking Imperialism: A Study of Capitalist Rule, by John Milios and Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos The making of Thatcherism
Matthew Grant Finding a Role? The United Kingdom, 1970–1990, by Brian Harrison Neo‐liberalism: the case against
Gianfranco Pasquino The Neo‐Liberal State, by Raymond Plant Planetary fantasy or strategic project?
Roland Axtmann The Global Commonwealth of Citizens: Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy, by Daniele Archibugi A bit of anarchy is good for you
Constance Bantman Anarchism and Utopianism, edited by Laurence Davis and Ruth Kinna The godlessness of Englishness
Michael Kenny Is God Still an Englishman? How We Lost Our Faith (but Found New Soul), by Cole Moreton     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Refugees and migrants: the globalisation of indifference
 VICTORIA BRITTAIN Us and Them? The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Control, by Bridget Anderson. Borderline Justice. The Fight for Refugee and Migrant Rights, by Frances Webber. Bad News for Refugees, by Greg Philo, Emma Briant and Pauline Donald. The Walking, by Laleh Khadivi. North Korea: as mysterious as ever
 Seung‐Young Kim Only Beautiful, Please. A British Diplomat in North Korea, by John Everard. World government and realistic utopianism
 Richard Mullender Governing the World: The History of an Idea, by Mark Mazower. Good ol’1970s
 Patrick Diamond Reassessing 1970s Britain, edited by Lawrence Black, Hugh Pemberton and Pat Thane. Progressive Capitalism: How to Achieve Economic Growth, Liberty and Social Justice, by David Sainsbury. Oh why, oh why, oh why?
 Dick Leonard The Blunders of our Governments, by Anthony King and Ivor Crewe. The social basis of electoral reform
 Geoff Kennedy Wrestling with Democracy: Voting Systems as Politics in the Twentieth‐Century West, by Dennis Pilon. Context rules over electoral rules
 Gianfranco Pasquino Electoral Systems and Political Context, by Robert G. Moser and Ethan Scheiner. Lacan et al. in post‐apartheid South Africa
 Saul Dubow (Post)Apartheid Conditions. Psychoanalysis and Social Formation, by Derek Hook. The expansion of same‐sex marriage
 Donna Smith The Same Sex Unions Revolution in Western Democracies. International Norms and Domestic Policy Change, by Kelly Kollman. Hollywood and the politics of stars
 Mark Glancy Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics, by Steven J. Ross. Gladstone in the left corner, Disraeli in the right
 Richard Briand The Great Rivalry: Gladstone and Disraeli, by Dick Leonard. Loving the Lords?
 Lord Lipsey (David Lipsey) The Contemporary House of Lords. Westminster Bicameralism Revived, by Meg Russell.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Far Right ELISABETH CARTER Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe, by Piero Ignazi. Right‐wing Extremism in the Twenty‐first Century, edited by Peter H. Merkl and Leonard Weinberg. From Tax Populism to Ethnic Nationalism: Radical Right‐wing Populism in Sweden, by Jens Rydgren. Modernity and Secession: The Social Sciences and the Political Discourse of the Lega Nord in Italy, by Michel Huysseune. New Labour new NHS? , Jennifer Dixon New Labour's State of Health. Political Economy, Public Policy and the NHS, by Calum Paton. Bad aid , Norman Flynn The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done so Much III and so Little Good, by William Easterly. Plato Lives! , Richard Mullender Plato's Republic: A Biography, by Simon Blackburn. Plato's Children: The State We Are In, By Anthony O'Hear. plato and the Virtue of Courage, by Linda R. Rabieh. Exporting Burke , Richard Bourke Foreign Affections: Essays on Edmund Burke, by Seamus Deane.     

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European Welfare Futures: Towards a Theory of Retrenchment, by Guiliano Bonoli, Vic George and Peter Taylor‐Gooby The New Politics of the Welfare State, edited by Paul Pierson The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States, by Jacob S. Hacker The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model, by Manuel Castells and Pekka Himanen Market‐Driven Politics: Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest, by Colin Leys The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty‐First Century, by Robert Cooper Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters or Technicians? By Tevi Troy Nehru: A Political Life, by Judith M. Brown The Labour Market under New Labour: The State of Working Britain 2003, edited by Richard Dickens, Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth European Integration, 1950–2003: Superstate or New Market Economy? by John Gillingham Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore     

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Books reviewed: Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman and John McIlroy (eds.), British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics; Volume One: The Post‐war Compromise, 1945‐‐64; Volume Two: The High Tide of Trade Unionism, 1964‐79 Robert E. Lane, The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies Peter Self, Rolling Back the Market: Economic Dogma and Political Choice Anne Phillips, Which Equalities Matter? Royden J. Harrison, The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858‐‐1905: The Formative Years Tim Judah, Kosovo: War and Revenge Michael J. Hogan (ed.), The Ambiguous Legacy: US Foreign Relations in the ‘American Century’ Eric Roll, Where Are We Going? The Next Twenty Years Dennis Smith and Sue Wright (eds.), Whose Europe? The Turn Towards Democracy Meg Russell, Reforming the House of Lords: Lessons from Overseas The Wakeham Report, A House for the Future: The Royal Commission on the Reform of the House of Lords Anthony D. Smith, Myths and Memories of the Nation Phil Mullan, The Imaginary Time Bomb: Why an Ageing Population is not a Social Problem     

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Book reviewed in this issue. ‘Special’ yes, but when and why? Old World, New World: The Story of Britain and America, by Kathleen Burk. God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World, by Walter Russell Mead. Judicial corruption Global Corruption Report 2007: Corruption in Judicial Systems, by Transparency International. Internet crimes Cybercrime: The Transformation of Crime in the Information Age, by David S. Wall. $$ and €€€ in the global world The Euro and the Dollar in a Globalized Economy, edited by Joaquín Roy and Pedro Gomis‐Porqueras. The engagement of media citizens Media Consumption and Public Engagement: Beyond the Presumption of Attention, by Nick Couldry, Sonia Livingstone and Tim Markham. Scotching the Scots The Scots and the Union, by Christopher Whatley. The Union: England, Scotland and the Treaty of 1707, by Michael Fry. The Union of 1707: Why and How, by Paul Henderson Scot. Citizens and supercapitalists Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy and Everyday Life, by Robert Reich. More Blair effects Blair's Britain, 1997–2007, edited by Anthony Seldon. Carl Schmitt: a scholarly Nazi Carl Schmitt and the Jews: The ‘Jewish Question’, The Holocaust and German Legal Theory, by Raphael Gross. Ein gefährlicher Geist. Carl Schmitts Wirkung in Europa, by Jan‐Werner Müller. Carl Schmitt, Ludwig Feuchtwanger, Briefwechsel 1918–1935, edited by Rolf Rieß. Hans Blumenberg, Carl Schmitt, Briefwechsel, edited by Alexander Schmitz and Marcel Lepper. Gretha Jünger, Carl Schmitt, Briefwechsel (1934–1953), edited by Ingeborg Villinger and Alexander Jaser.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Britain's four political traditions Britain since 1918: The Strange Career of British Democracy, by David Marquand. The darker side of nudging Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness, by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein. The almost‐forgotten Korean War The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, by David Halberstam. Reasoning about risk Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years, by Vaclav Smil. The great war on terror Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty‐first Century, by Philip Bobbitt. From terrorism to pop cultural icons? Baader‐Meinhof Returns: History and Cultural Memory of German Left‐wing Terrorism, edited by Gerrit‐Jan Berendse and Ingo Cornils. An incoherent critique of New Labour? The End of Politics: New Labour and the Folly of Managerialism, by Chris Dillow. Top of the paps Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel, by Gordon Burn. The slight hand of history Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland, by Jonathan Powell. Israel–Palestine: insiders and outsiders Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, by Saree Makdisi.     

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Books review: Daniel Cohen, The Wealth of the World and the Poverty of Nations Peter J. Taylor, The Way the Modern World Works: World Hegemony to World Impasse Anton Zijderveld, The Waning of the Welfare State: The End of Comprehensive State Succor Bill Jordan, The New Politics of Welfare: Social Justice in a Global Context Leonard E. Burman, The Labyrinth of Capital Gains Tax Policy TheConstitution of Iran, Asghar Schirazi. James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State Wolfgang Reinicke, Global Public Policy: Governing without Government? Peter Trubowitz, Emily O. Goldman, and Edward Rhodes, eds. The Politics of Strategic Adjustment: Ideas, Institutions, and Interests Frederick W. Mayer, Interpreting NAFTA: The Science and Art of Political Analysis J. Nicholas Ziegler, Governing Ideas: Strategies for Innovation in France and Germany Pietro S. Nivola, Laws of the Landscape: How Policies Shape Cities in Europe and America     

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Books reviewed in this issue. The Real Story of the Romanian ‘Revolution’
SILVIA MARTON 1989 à l'est de l'Europe: une mémoire controversée, edited by Jérôme Heurtaux and Cédric Pellen. La mort des Ceau?escu: la vérité sur un coup d'Etat communiste, by Catherine Durandin and Guy Hoedts. A hedgehog approach to capitalism
Paul Auerbach 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, by Ha‐Joon Chang. A Scottish Salmond in a sea of banalities?
Tom Gallagher Salmond Against the Odds, by David Torrance. Israel: the politics of brute force
Geoffrey Bindman The Punishment of Gaza, by Gideon Levy. Heath: no need to be loved
Mark Garnett Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography, by Philip Ziegler. The politics of rebellious music
Nico Pizzolato Reds, Whites and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music and Race in the United States, by William G. Roy. Lloyd George's wrong choices
Dick Leonard David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider, by Roy Hattersley. The constraints on American caesars
Richard Briand American Caesars: Lives of the American Presidents, from Franklyn D. Roosevelt to George Bush, by Nigel Hamilton. Faltering Habermas
Gianfranco Pasquino Europe: The Faltering Project, by Jürgen Habermas. Some light on the Prince of Darkness
Andrew Blick The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour, by Peter Mandelson. Trio: Inside the Blair, Brown, Mandelson Project, by Giles Radice.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. A breed apart: the Waziristan model
F. S. AIJAZUDDIN The Thistle and the Drone. How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam, by Akbar Ahmed. Inventing history or inventing Israel?
Dennis Marks The Invention of the Land of Israel, by Shlomo Sands. Explaining the Congo wars
Sara Hellmüller Congo, by Thomas Turner. Not so right‐wing after all
Richard Briand Small Wars, Faraway Places: The Genesis of the Modern World 1945–1965, by Michael Burleigh. Caucasian problems and old Russian questions
Andrew Wachtel The Fire Below. How the Caucasus Shaped Russia, edited by Robert Bruce Ware. Capitalism versus democracy?
Gianfranco Pasquino Politics in The Age of Austerity, edited by Armin Schäfer and Wolfgang Streeck. Anti‐colonialism with a hint of nostalgia
Arifa Akbar From the Ruins of the Empire. The Revolt against the West and the Remaking of Asia, by Pankaj Mishra. What to do with the toffs and the not‐so‐toffs
Meg Russell The House of Lords 1911–2011: A Century of Non‐Reform, by Chris Ballinger. How liberal was John Stuart Mill?
Duncan Kelly Mill and Paternalism, by Gregory Claeys. Liberty Abroad: J. S. Mill on International Relations, by Georgios Varouxakis. War on terror: ‘Collateral damage’ in Britain
Laleh Khalili Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror, by Victoria Brittain.     

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Books reviewed in this article: Multiculturalism and Britishness BERNARD CRICK Multicultural Politics: Racism, Ethnicity and Muslims in Britain, by Tariq Modood No Rock ‘n’ Roll for Joschka Fischer Arne Hofmann Die Rückkehr der Geschichte: Die Welt nach dem 11. September und die Erneuerung des Westens (The Return of History: The World after September 11 and the Reconstruction of the West), by Joschka Fischer Russia and the Kosovo Crisis Vassilis Fouskas Collision Course: NATO, Russia and Kosovo, by John Norris with a Foreword by Strobe Talbott Patten's Progress Mark Garnett Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths about World Affairs, by Chris Patten Civil Society: The Historian's View Matthew Grant Civil Society in British History: Ideas, Identities, Institutions, edited by Jose Harris Not Quite Lawless Pavlos Eleftheriadis Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules, by Philippe Sands The Meanings of Genocide Lars Fischer The Killing Trap: Genocide in the Twentieth Century, by Manus Midlarsky The Meaning of Genocide (Genocide in the Age of the Nation State I), by Mark Levene. I. B. Tauris The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide (Genocide in the Age of the Nation State IT), by Mark Levene. I. B. Lauris Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution, edited by Johannes‐Dieter Steinert and Inge Weber‐Newth Down with Political Parties? Paul Webb The Party's Over: Blueprint for a Very English Revolution, by Keith Sutherland What To Do with the USA? Richard Briand Taming American Power: The Global Response to US Primacy, by Stephen M. Walt. Norton Imperial Delusions: American Militarism and Endless War, by Carl Boggs The 2005 Election Reassessed Richard S. Grayson The British General Election of 2005, by Dennis Kavanagh and David Butler Britain Votes 2005, edited by Pippa Norris and Christopher Wlezien Neither Left nor Right? The Liberal Democrats and the Electorate, by Andrew Russell and Edward Fieldhouse The Importance of the Opponent Yannis Stavrakakis On the Political, by Chantal Mouffe     

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Who Cares? True Stories of the NHS Reforms Peter Bruggen A Damn Bad Business: The NHS Deformed Jeremy Lee-Potter The Politics of Change in the Health Service Brian Salter The National Health Service: A Political History Charles Webster Cyberdemocracy: Technology, Cities and Civic Networks edited by Roza Tsagarousianou, Damian Tambini and Cathy Bryan Governing in the Digital Age Christine Bellamy and John A. Taylor Coordinating the Internet edited by Brian Kahin and James H. Keller Raymond Williams Fred Inglis The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism Richard Sennett Political Theory of European Constitutional Choice edited by Michael Nentwich and Albert Weale Citizenship and Citizenship Education in a Changing World edited by Orit Ichilov Work, Consumerism and the New Poor Zygmunt Bauman Feminism and Citizenship Rian Voet Conscience and Parliament edited by Philip Cowley     

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Book reviewed in this issue. The Dogs of Journalism. STEVEN BARNETT. Flat Earth News, by Nick Davies. Public intellectual: The art of making oneself up. Richard Mullender. Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers, Volume 4, by Richard Rorty. The Second Plane: September 11: 2001–2007, by Martin Amis. Planning and all that. Matthew Grant. From Dreams to Disillusionment: Economic and Social Planning in 1960s Britain, by Glen O'Hara. Let a hundred flowers bloom. Munira Mirza Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts, by Caroline Levine. How to change your brains. Dick Pountain On Deep History and the Brain, by Daniel Lord Smail. ‘Clean’ torture. Caroline Fournet Torture and Democracy, by Darius Rejali. Reforming Italy. Gianfranco Pasquino Political Institutions in Italy, by Maurizio Cotta and Luca Verzichelli. Choice and competition in health care. Jennifer Dixon The Other Invisible Hand: Delivering Public Services through Competition and Choice, by Julian Le Grand, Afterword by Alain Enthoven. Who is afraid of politics?. Meg Russell Politics and the People: A History of British Democracy since 1918, by Kevin Jefferys. Why Politics Matters: Making Democracy Work, by Gerry Stoker, Palgrave Macmillan. Why We Hate Politics, by Colin Hay.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Pakistan: The Hope of Wiser Mornings
F. S. AIJAZUDDIN The Future of Pakistan, by Stephen P. Cohen and others. The euro crisis: will the left awaken?
Jon Bloomfield The Future of Social Democracy: Building the Good Society, by Henning Meyer and Jonathan Rutherford. Nudging or nagging? Nudge, Nudge, Think, Think: Experimenting with Ways to Change Civic Behaviour, by Peter John, Sarah Cotterill, Alice Moseley, Liz Richardson, Graham Smith, Gerry Stoker, Corinne Wales, Hanhua Liu and Hisako Nomura. Is Berlusconi history?
Claudia Capelli Berlusconi passato alla storia. L'Italia nell'era della democrazia autoritaria, by Antonio Gibelli. Berlusconismo. Analisi di un sistema di potere, edited by Paul Ginsborg and Enrica Asquer. Island story or real history?
Kate Moorse The Right Kind of History: Teaching the Past in Twentieth‐century England, by David Cannadine, Jenny Keating and Nicola Sheldon. The Tea Parties: neither crazies nor righteous
Martin Durham The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism, by Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williams. A global mafia?
John Dickie Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories, by Federico Varese. What now, America?
Ilaria Poggiolini Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power, by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Knaves not fools
Dick Pountain The Cost of Inequality: Three Decades of the Super‐Rich and the Economy, by Stewart Lansley.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. ‘It's Inequality, Stupid!’
PHILIP ARMSTRONG AND BOB SUTCLIFFE Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, by Raghuram G. Rajan. Economic Collapse, Economic Change: Getting to the Roots of the Crisis, by Arthur MacEwan and John A. Miller. Politics without power
Richard Briand A Walk‐On Part, by Chris Mullin. Debunking Afghan myths
Joanna Buckley Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground, by Jonathan Steele. The way after the Third Way
Patrick Diamond Social Democracy and Capitalism in the Knowledge Age, by Jenny Andersson. Latin America: the left returns
Richard Gott The Triumph of Politics: The Return of the Left in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, by George Philip and Francisco Panizza. The Resurgence of the Latin American Left, edited by Steven Levitsky and Kenneth M. Roberts. The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American Left, by Emir Sader, translated by Iain Bruce. (Re)inventing political culture?
Gianfranco Pasquino Reinventing Political Culture: The Power of Culture versus the Culture of Power, by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb. When the middle began to be squeezed
Dick Pountain Winner‐Take‐All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson. Italy: endlessly resisting
John Foot The Legacy of the Italian Resistance, by Philip Cooke. Plus ça change …
Mark Garnett Eighteenth‐century British Premiers: Walpole to the Younger Pitt, by Dick Leonard. Gridlock or peak travel?
David Metz Gridlock Nation, by Kwasi Kwarteng and Jonathan Dupont. TINA (there is no etc.): the sequel
Jim Tomlinson UK Economy: The Crisis in Perspective, edited by Gabriele Giudice, Robert Kuenzel and Thomas Springbett.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Making the Market Behave
COLIN CROUCH The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition and the Common Good, by Robert H. Frank. The Oil‐rich Revolutionary
Maurice Walsh Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution, by Richard Gott. Demonising Muslims
Victoria Brittain Pointing The Finger: Islam and Muslims in the British Media, edited by Julian Petley and Robin Richardson. The Strange Non‐death of Multiculturalism
Karim Murji Multiculturalism: A Very Short Introduction, by Ali Rattansi. What did Atatürk Read?
Rifat Kandiyoti Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography, by M. Sükrü Hanioglu. Muddling through the Constitution (Again)
Ben Yong The Coalition and the Constitution, by Vernon Bogdanor Lefty Brits on a Visit to China in 1954
Matthew Grant Passport to Peking: A Very British Mission to Mao's China, by Patrick Wright. American Republicans may Harm Your Health
Gianfranco Pasquino Why Some Politicians are More Dangerous than Others, by James Gilligan. The Possible Death of American Imperialism
Vassilis K. Fouskas Rethinking Imperialism, by Ray Kiely. Neoliberalism Lives On
Michael Rustin The Strange Non‐death of Neoliberalism, by Colin Crouch.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Conciliating the Irish Ireland: The Politics of Enmity, 1789–2006, by Paul Bew. The lobby of all lobbies? The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, by John J. Meirsheimer and Stephen M. Walt. Algeria's dead—does anyone care? Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed, by Martin Evans and John Phillips. Patriotic intentions Patriotism and Other Mistakes, by George Kateb. Tony Benn, Human Being More Time for Politics: Diaries, 2001–2007, by Tony Benn, selected and edited by Ruth Winstone. Churchill the Zionist Churchill and the Jews, by Martin Gilbert. British communists under the microscope Communists and British Society, 1920–1991, by Kevin Morgan, Gidon Cohen and Andrew Flinn. The Romanian revolution revisited The Romanian Revolution of December 1989, by Peter Siani‐Davies. Comrades of the world: you are history! Comrades: A World History of Communism, by Robert Service.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Shock! Horror! America shocks Europe
 DONALD SASSOON The Shock of America. Europe and the Challenge of the Century, by David Ellwood. Greedy grey voters?
 David Metz Going Grey: the Mediation of Politics in an Ageing Society, by Scott Davidson. How to hate Muslims in America
 Tahir Abbas The Islamophobia Industry: How the Far Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims, by Nathan Lean. Planning urban blight
 Joseph Rykwert A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys through Urban Britain, by Owen Hatherley. The self‐appointed imperial umpire
 Andrew Johnstone American Umpire, by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman. Daddy knows best?
 Dick Pountain Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism by Sarah Conly. Advice to (male) politicians: keep trousers zipped up
 Dick Leonard Intimate Politics: Publicity, Privacy and the Personal Lives of Politicians in Media‐Saturated Democracies, by James Stanyer. Christians and Muslims facing the world
 Alessandra Cecolin Christian Response to Islam. Muslim–Christian relations in the modern world, edited by Anthony O'Mahony and Emma Loosley. The sweet charms of the upper‐class voice
 Gianfranco Pasquino The Unheavenly Chorus. Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy, by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba and Henry E. Brady. Integration, again: the Frenchness of a British nationalist
 Daniel Gordon The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post‐War Immigration, by David Goodhart.