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The summer issue of Parliamentary Affairs (July 2011) contains a variety of articles including an examination of the antecedents of the Big Society, a survey of ideological tendencies among Conservative Party members and an analysis of legislative committee activity in the Scottish Parliament .
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Editors’ Notes
- The Hansard Society is the UK’s leading non-partisan political research and education charity which exists to strengthen parliamentary democracy and encourage greater public involvement in politics.
- The July 2011 issue of Parliamentary Affairscontains the following articles. Click on the title to read an abstract from each article:
- Paul Webb and Sarah Childs Wets and Dries Resurgent? Intra-Party Alignments Among Contemporary Conservative Party Members
- Charles Pattie and Ron Johnston How Big is the Big Society?
- Tom Louwerse The Spatial Approach to the Party Mandate
- Jennifer M. Piscopo Rethinking Descriptive Representation: Rendering Women in Legislative Debates
- John Coakley The Challenge of Consociation in Northern Ireland
- Martin Battle Second-Class Representatives or Work Horses? Committee Assignments and Electoral Incentives in the Scottish Parliament
- Steve Williams and Peter Scott The Nature of Conservative Party Modernisation Under David Cameron: The Trajectory of Employment Relations Policy
- Liam Weeks Tolerable Chance or Undesirable Arbitrariness? Distributing Surplus Votes Under PR-STV
- Dean McSweeney Early Voting and Informed Voters in America
- Matt Korris Standing up for Scrutiny: How and Why Parliament Should Make Better Law
- Reviews
- Jonathan Tonge reviews Devolution and the Governance of Northern Ireland by Colin Knox
- Kevin Hickson reviews Losing Labour’s Soul? New Labour and the Blair Government 1997-2007 by Eric Shaw and The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron by Tim Bale