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This book challenges the idea that Brexit was a contest between heads and hearts, and offers a fresh account of political feelings and the stories we tell about them.

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This book explores the implementation of the UK's FOI law under Tony Blair, showing how the radical policy was weakened by compromises and clandestine agreements before reaching the statute book, though it went on to be controversial and disruptive nonetheless. -- .

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This book explores the implementation of the UK's FOI law under Tony Blair, showing how the radical policy was weakened by compromises and clandestine agreements before reaching the statute book, though it went on to be controversial and disruptive nonetheless. -- .

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This book is about the politics of publicly provided health care. This is a comparative study of health policy and politics focusing on major countries of western Europe: France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the UK.

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This book examines the quest to promote the health and vigour of individuals and populations in Denmark and England. Based on a detailed account of obesity control and mental recovery programs, the book shows that these interventions are supported by a form of optimistic vitalism that seems to have no political limitations. -- .

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This book is concerned with the interaction of traditional politics, culture and social groups, of local and national influences, of ideals and individuals. It looks at local government, social groups and housing policy in the twentieth century. This is a remarkable story of how these factors were interwoven to create and manage policy. -- .

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Systematically explores what it is conceived as 'hunger politics': the articulations of hunger as a tool of protest by poor consumers; its framing as a problem in the making of public policy; and its (elite) political languages and the attendant effects. -- .

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Systematically explores what it is conceived as 'hunger politics': the articulations of hunger as a tool of protest by poor consumers; its framing as a problem in the making of public policy; and its (elite) political languages and the attendant effects. -- .

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This study compares the making and remaking of the political identities of the miners' movements in Britain and Germany. Taking the South Wales and Ruhr coalfields as case studies, it focuses on the discourse of the trade unions and political parties in the two regions to reveal how they constructed organisational identities between 1890 and 1926.

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This book explores identity as contingent, fragmented and dynamic across a range of global sites and approaches that deal with citizenship, security, migration, subjectivity, memory, exclusion and belonging, and space and place. It explores the political and social effects and possibilities of identity practices, discourses and policies.

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How might our friendships shape our politics This new book examines how contemporary American fiction from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States.

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How might our friendships shape our politics This new book examines how contemporary American fiction from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States.

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This study explores how writers reconciled provocative biblical stories with late-medieval culture. Highlighting the many variations and points of conflict across renditions of the same story, the book unfolds a creative theological discourse through which writers attempted to re-construct Christian belief and practice. -- .

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Is democracy in crisis Not according to this book! In this fascinating study, Professor Qvortrup shows that citizens are engaged in politics like never before by voting in referendums and participating in demonstrations and other forms of 'low politics'. -- .

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Reappraises the often complex relationship between British monarchs and some of their more troublesome subjects in the 'age of revolutions'. Casts new light upon the contested languages of constitutionalism, contract theory and the rights of petition and provokes fresh controversy over the viability of monarchies in the modern world. -- .

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This work on the British constitution assesses the properties, dynamics and implications of political exchange. It investigates the methods employed to mobilise and resist the pressure for constitutional change, how political agendas are formed, and reviews different political motivations. -- .

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Including contributions from key early modern historians, this book uses and critiques the notion of the public sphere to produce a new account of England in the post-reformation period from the 1530s to the early eighteenth century. Makes a substantive contribution to the historiography of early modern England. -- .

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The book offers a study of Roma racialisation. Through the idea of unbelonging it demonstrates how the community is placed in a position of visceral visibility by local, national and international institutions and media discourses. It critically evaluates how the unbelonged position impacts Roma's self-representation and political mobilisation.

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Provides a comprehensive, comparative study of global vaccine politics and their social, economic and historical context. -- .

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This book challenges the assumptions that reporters and their audiences alike have about the way the journalistic trade operates and how it sees the world. It unpacks the taken-for-granted aspects of the lives of war correspondents, exposing the principles of interaction and valorisation that usually go unacknowledged. -- .

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Fauset sees Kavanagh as a significant but neglected writer and returns her to her proper place in the history of women's writing. -- .

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Fauset sees Kavanagh as a significant but neglected writer and returns her to her proper place in the history of women's writing. -- .

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A guide to the Constitution which attempts to provide the political terminology for modern political studies. An introductory survey of concepts relating to the constitutional framework leads on to a glossary in which basic terminology is defined in clear terms. Aimed at A level students and first year Undergraduates in Politics and Government.