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Parliamentary Affairs Advance Access originally published online on December 8, 2008
Parliamentary Affairs 2009 62(1):149-161; doi:10.1093/pa/gsn046
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© The Author [2008]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government; all rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Taking the Temperature of the UK's Political Elite

Michael Kenny, Professor of Politics1

University of Sheffield
UK

Correspondence: m.kenny@ippr.org

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   Introduction
 
THIS series of commentary pieces will alight on some of the major developments and issues in contemporary British party politics and public debate. The rationales that will inform the focus of each contribution are a mixture of the following: (1) the intention to focus on very recent or on-going developments; (2) an interest in providing analysis and commentary from a vantage point that is slightly closer to political action and debate than is normally the case with the articles published by academic journals such as this; and (3) the ambition to excavate or analyse the role of political ideas and thinking in relation to important developments, even when these are buried beneath thickets of interests, calculation and tactics. If pressed to identify an overarching question linking these contributions, I would point to the venerable and still contentious one: do ideas matter in British politics?

Before I proceed to the first . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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