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Publication year - 2008
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/j.1467-923x.2008.00965.x
Subject(s) - politics , torture , democracy , the arts , competition (biology) , art history , sociology , media studies , law , art , psychoanalysis , political science , psychology , ecology , human rights , biology
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.