Politics Review
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Regular columns develop students’ skills. These include:
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- In focus
- US update
- Fact file
- Success at NEW AS
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Editorial board
- Chair John Benyon
- Commissioning Editors Philip Lynch and Eric Magee
- Editorial assistant Isobel Woodliffe
Department of Politics
University of Leicester
128 Regent Road
Leicester LE1 7PA
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Fax: 0116 252 5909
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Volume 18
Issue 1: September 2008
Issue 2: November 2008
Issue 3: February 2009
Issue 4: April 2009
September 2008

Contents:
A codified constitution for Britain Sample pages
Vernon Bogdanor
US update
Why Hillary Clinton lost the primary race
AS concept
Direct and representative democracy
Liberalism, toleration and diversity
Andrew Heywood
Success at NEW AS Edexcel Government and Politics Unit 1 People and politics
Pressure groups: identifying the target
for study
Grant Jordan
A decade of electoral reform in the UK
Thomas Lundberg
Conservative Justice? The Roberts
Supreme Court
Robert Singh
And lots more...
November 2008

Contents:
Articles
Referendums in the UK
Matt Qvortrup
The House of Commons: unimportant, unreformable, unrepresentative and unloved?
Philip Cowley
The US presidential veto
Anthony Bennett
Socialism and equality
John Hoffman
Primaries and caucuses evaluated
Edward Ashbee
Valence and volatility: explaining party choice
in the twenty-first century
David Denver
Columns
What’s new?
Managing Labour’s strategy; Constitutional renewal; Glasgow East by-election;
Ratifying the Lisbon Treaty
AS concept
Majoritarian and proportional representation
US update
Lame-duck presidents
Success at NEW AS
AQA Government and Politics
Unit 1 People, politics and participation
Achieve at A2
OCR Government and Politics
Modules 2695 and 2699: how to write a good Political Ideas and Concepts essay
In focus
Globalisation