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Volume 19, 2009/10
Politics Review is written for students.
Each 36-page issue contains specially commissioned articles to update students’ knowledge of key AS and A2 topics.
Regular columns Success at AS and Achieve at A2 will help students develop essential skills.
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Volume 19
Issue 1: September 2009
Issue 2: November 2009
Issue 3: February 2010
Issue 4: April 2010
September 2009

Contents
AS: Democracy and Participation:
Is there a participation crisis?
Paul Whiteley
AS: Whatever Happened to New Labour?
Steven Fielding
AS: Pressure Groups in the UK: Good or bad for democracy?
Wyn Grant
AS: Constitutional Reform Under Gordon Brown
Philip Norton
A2: US Political Parties: More
differences within than between?
Edward Ashbee
A2: Multiculturalism, Identity and Diversity
Andrew Heywood
Success at AS: Edexcel Unit 2
– Governing the UK
Neil McNaughton
Achieve at A2: AQA Unit 3A
– The politics of the USA
Colleen Harris
Focus on…UK electoral systems
Nick Gallop
UK Update
Paul Fairclough and Philip Lynch
US Update
Edward Ashbee
November 2009

Contents
Electoral reform: is FPTP defensible?
Mike Simpson
Success at AS
AQA Government and Politics
Unit 2 Governing modern Britain
Whatever happened to cabinet government?
Rob McMahon
US pressure groups: a blight on democracy?
Anthony Batchelor
Focus on… The US cabinet
Constitutional reform:
why has it stalled under Gordon Brown?
Philip Norton
UK update
Selecting Conservative candidates; MPs’ expenses
The first billion-dollar US election
Clodagh Harringon
Achieve at new A2
Edexcel Government and Politics
Unit 3C
Representative processes in the USA
Has conservatism moved beyond Thatcherism?
Paul Graham
US update
Sarah Palin for president?;
Blue Dog Democrats
Highlights
What is the budget deficit?
February 2010

Contents
Congress: watchdog or lapdog? Anthony J. Bennett
Focus on… UK select committees
Enhancing democracy:
how might participation be improved?
Paul Whiteley
Success at AS
Revision and exam technique
Sovereignty and devolution: quasi-federalism?
Vernon Bogdanor
UK update Electoral reform back on the agenda?; Policing popular protests; Recall of MPs
The UK judiciary: renewal or just more rivalry?
Mark Garnett
Ecologism and the politics of sensibilities
Andrew Heywood
Achieve at new A2
OCR Government and Politics
Unit F853 Contemporary US government and politics
Conservative policy under Cameron
Philip Lynch
US update The November 2009 elections: a bad result all round?
Highlights Presidential firsts
April 2010

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