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Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the political quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-923X
pISSN - 0032-3179
DOI - 10.1111/1467-923x.12086
Subject(s) - memoir , democracy , george (robot) , interpretation (philosophy) , politics , art history , capitalism , social democracy , sociology , history , law , art , political science , philosophy , linguistics
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.