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T.H. Green, advanced liberalism and the reform question 1865-1876 (2007)
Book Chapter
Tyler, C. (2007). T.H. Green, advanced liberalism and the reform question 1865-1876. In J. Morrow (Ed.), T.H. Green (487-508). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351148245-22

© John Morrow 2007. All rights reserved. This paper examines Thomas Hill Green's changing attitude to the Reform Question between 1865 and 1876. Section 1 sketches the Radical landscape against which Green advocated reform between 1866 and 1867, payi... Read More about T.H. Green, advanced liberalism and the reform question 1865-1876.

Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments: The Initial Decade (2007)
Book
Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2007). Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments: The Initial Decade. Routledge

The sudden collapse of communism stimulated both the rapid emergence of fledgling democracies and scholarly attention to the post-communist transition. These newly democratized parliaments have been described as "parliaments in adolescence". This boo... Read More about Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments: The Initial Decade.

Human welfare and the future of the world trade organization: Rethinking the international institutional architecture (2007)
Book Chapter
Tyler, C. (2007). Human welfare and the future of the world trade organization: Rethinking the international institutional architecture. In S. Lee, & S. Mcbride (Eds.), Neo-Liberalism, State Power and Global Governance (217-230). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6220-9_14

The 2004 report of the Consultative Board to the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), entitled The Future of the WTO, was bullish regarding the correlation between trade liberalization and human well-being: It is argued by some tha... Read More about Human welfare and the future of the world trade organization: Rethinking the international institutional architecture.

Lula's development council: Neo-corporatism and policy reform in Brazil (2007)
Journal Article
Doctor, M. (2007). Lula's development council: Neo-corporatism and policy reform in Brazil. Latin American perspectives, 34(6), 131-148. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X07308265

Brazil's recently created Council for Economic and Social Development was designed to enhance democratic governance and socioeconomic development via consultation and dialogue with civil society actors. In its first years of operation, it served to a... Read More about Lula's development council: Neo-corporatism and policy reform in Brazil.

Four models of political representation: British MPs and the use of ICT (2007)
Journal Article
Norton, P. (2007). Four models of political representation: British MPs and the use of ICT. Journal of Legislative Studies, 13(3), 354-369. https://doi.org/10.1080/13572330701500771

This paper tests four models of political representation in the UK Parliament: the traditional, party, representative and tribune. Each involves a different usage of the Internet in order to fulfil a particular role. A rational choice approach emphas... Read More about Four models of political representation: British MPs and the use of ICT.

The digital revolution and development: The impact of Chinese policy and strategies (2007)
Journal Article
Dai, X. (2007). The digital revolution and development: The impact of Chinese policy and strategies. Development = Développement = Desarrollo, 50(3), 24-29. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.development.1100400

Xiudian Dai looks at how new information and communications technologies have impacted upon China's policy thinking on economic development and vice versa. The message is that China is able to become an important player in shaping the global digital... Read More about The digital revolution and development: The impact of Chinese policy and strategies.

Labour’s Thinkers: The Intellectual Roots of Labour from Tawney to Gordon Brown (2007)
Book
Beech, M. A., & Hickson, K. E. (2007). Labour’s Thinkers: The Intellectual Roots of Labour from Tawney to Gordon Brown. I.B. Tauris

"Labour's Thinkers" seeks to examine the key ideas emphasised by the twelve individuals whom the authors judge to have made the most significant development to the political thought of the Labour Party since the 1930s. Hickson and Beech argue the Lab... Read More about Labour’s Thinkers: The Intellectual Roots of Labour from Tawney to Gordon Brown.

Bilateral Stability, Global Instability: The Political Economy of Contemporary Anglo-Japanese Economic Relations (2007)
Book Chapter
Lee, S. (2007). Bilateral Stability, Global Instability: The Political Economy of Contemporary Anglo-Japanese Economic Relations. In P. Towle, & . N. M. Kosuge (Eds.), Britain and Japan in The Twentieth Century: One Hundred Years of Trade and Prejudice (138-151). London: Bloomsbury Publishing

After the horrors of World War II in Asia - not least the systematic appalling mistreatment of Allied prisoners-of-war by the Japanese military - few would have predicted that Britain's relationship with Japan would flourish into a booming partnershi... Read More about Bilateral Stability, Global Instability: The Political Economy of Contemporary Anglo-Japanese Economic Relations.

Boosting investment and growth: the role of social pacts in the Brazilian automotive industry (2007)
Journal Article
Doctor, M. (2007). Boosting investment and growth: the role of social pacts in the Brazilian automotive industry. Oxford development studies, 35(1), 105-130. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600810601167629

The article examines why the automotive industry invested over US$20 billion in Brazil in the second half of the 1990s, focusing on how political economy factors influenced investment decisions. It is argued that, in a context of economic and policy... Read More about Boosting investment and growth: the role of social pacts in the Brazilian automotive industry.

Chinese cyberspaces: technological changes and political effects. Edited by Jens Damm and Simona Thomas. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. The Internet in China: unlocking and containing the public Sphere. Johan Lagerkvist. Lund: Lund University, 2006 (2007)
Journal Article
Dai, X. (2007). Chinese cyberspaces: technological changes and political effects. Edited by Jens Damm and Simona Thomas. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. The Internet in China: unlocking and containing the public Sphere. Johan Lagerkvist. Lund: Lund University, 2006. The China quarterly, 196 - 198

The Constitution (2007)
Book Chapter
Norton, P. (2007). The Constitution. In A. Seldon (Ed.), Blair's Britain, 1997–2007 (104-122). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490828.007

One area in which there was a clear divide between the parties in 1997 was that of constitutional reform. The Conservatives were defenders of existing arrangements. Labour advocated a major overhaul of the nation's constitutional arrangements. The pa... Read More about The Constitution.