The PIR Virtual Library

 

Welcome to the PIR Virtual Library, where you can read electronic copies of recent publications, selections, and works in progress of members of staff of the Politics and International Relations Department. Simply click on the titles below to go to a magazine view of each piece. By holding the mouse icon over the text, you can view in fullscreen mode and also zoom into the text further.

 

 

Nicholas Allen

Allen, Nicholas (2006) 'A Restless Electorate: Stirrings in the Political System', in John Bartle and Anthony King (eds), Britain at the Polls 2005 (Washington, D.C.: C.Q. Press), pp. 54-77.

 

Allen, Nicholas and Dean, Jonathan (2008) 'No (Parliamentary) Gender Gap Please, We're British', The Political Quarterly 79 (2), pp. 212-220.

 

Allen, Nicholas (2008) 'A new ethical world of British MPs?', The Journal of Legislative Studies 14 (3), pp. 297-314.

 

Allen, Nicholas and Ward, Hugh (2009) '"Moves on a Chess Board": A Spatial Model of British Prime Ministers' Powers over Cabinet Formation', British Journal of Politics and International Relations 11 (2), pp. 238-258.

 

Allen, Nicholas (2009) 'Voices from the shop floor: MPs and the domestic effects of ethics reforms', Parliamentary Affairs, 62 (1), pp. 88-107.

 

 

Akil N Awan

Awan, A. N. (2007) 'Virtual Jihadist media: Function, legitimacy, and radicalising efficacy', European Journal of Cultural Studies (Special Issue), 10 (3), pp. 389-408.

 

Awan, A. N. (2008) 'Antecedents of Islamic Political Radicalism Among Muslim Communities in Europe', Political Science & Politics 41 (1): 13-17.

 

Awan, A. N. & Al-Lami, M. (2009) 'Al-Qaeda’s Virtual Crisis', Journal of the Royal United Services Institute 154 (1), pp. 56-64.

 

 

Michael Bacon

Bacon, Michael (2003) 'Liberal Universalism: On Brian Barry and Richard Rorty', Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 6 (2), pp. 41 – 62.

 

Bacon, Michael (2005) 'A Defence of Liberal Ironism', Res Publica: A Journal of Legal and Social Philosophy 11 (4), pp. 403-425.

 

Bacon, Michael (2006), 'Rorty and Pragmatic Social Criticism', Philosophy and Social Criticism 32 (6), pp. 739 – 756.

 

Bacon, Michael (forthcoming, 2009) 'The politics of truth: a critique of Peircean deliberative democracy’, Philosophy and Social Criticism (35).

 

 

Giacomo Benedetto

Benedetto, Giacomo and Hix, Simon (2007) 'The Rejected, the Ejected and the Dejected: Explaining Government Rebels in the 2001-5 British House of Commons', Comparative Political Studies 40 (7), pp. 755-781.

 

Benedetto, Giacomo and Hoyland, Bjorn (2007), 'The reform of the EU Annual Budgetary Procedure: Existing Rules, the Convention Proposal and the Intergovermental Conference, 2002-2004', Journal of Common Market Studies, 45 (3), pp. 565-587.

 

Benedetto, Giacomo (2008) 'Explaining the failure of Euroscepticism in the European Parliament', in Szczerbiak, Aleks and Taggart, Paul (eds.) The Comparative Party Politics of Euroscepticism (Oxford University Press, Oxford).

 

 

Andrew Chadwick

Chadwick, Andrew (2001) 'The Electronic Face of Government in the Internet Age: Borrowing from Murray Edelman', Information, Communication and Society, 4 (3), pp. 435-457.

 

Chadwick, Andrew (2003) 'Bringing E-Democracy Back In: Why It Matters For Future Research On E-Governance', Social Science Computer Review, 21 (4), pp. 443-455.

 

Chadwick, Andrew and May, Chris (2003) 'Interaction between states and citizens in the age of the Internet: "e-government" in the United States, Britain and the European Union', Governance: International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions, 16 (2), pp. 271-300.

 

Chadwick, Andrew (2007) 'Digitial Network Repetoires and Organizational Hybridity', Political Communication, 24:283-301.

 

Anstead, Nick and Chadwick, Andrew (2008) 'Parties, Election Campaigning and the Internet: Toward A Comparative Institutional Approach' in Chadwick, Andrew and Howard, Philip N. (eds) The Handbook of Internet Politics (Routledge), pp. 56-71.

 

Chadwick, Andrew (2009) 'Web 2.0: New Challenges for the Study of E-Democracy in an Era of Informational Exuberance', I/S: Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, 5 (1), pp. 9-41.

 

 

Sandra Halperin

Halperin, Sandra (2005) 'The Post-Cold War Political Topography of the Middle East: Prospects for Democracy', Third World Quarterly 26 (7) (2005), pp. 1135-1156.

 

Halperin,Sandra (2007) 'Re-Envisioning Global Development: Conceptual and Methodological Issues', Globalizations 4 (4) (December), pp. 543–558.

 

Halperin, Sandra (2009) 'Power to the People: nationally-embedded development and mass armies in the making of democracy', Millennium: Journal of International Studies 37 (3) (May), pp. 605-630.

 

Halperin, Sandra (2009) 'Nationalism Reconsidered: The Local/Trans-local Nexus of Globalisation', Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 9 (3) (Dec), pp. 465-480.

 

 

Oliver Heath

Heath, Oliver (2007) 'Explaining turnout decline in Britain, 1964-2005: party identification and the political context', Political Behavior, 29 (4), pp. 493-517.

 

Heath, Oliver (2008) 'Triggers for protest: Modelling responses to the political context in Britain, 2000–2002', European Journal of Political Research, 47 (4), pp. 489-509.

 

Heath, Oliver (2009) 'Explaining the Rise of Class Politics in Venezuela', Bulletin of Latin American Research, 28 (2), pp. 185-203.

 

Curtice, John and Heath, Oliver (2009) 'Do people want Choice and diversity of provision in public services?' in Park, Alison, Curtice, John, Thomson, Katarina, Philips, Miranda, and Clery, Elizabeth (eds) British Social Attitudes: the 25th Report (London: Sage).

 

 

Ronnie D. Lipschutz

Lipschutz, Ronnie D.(2001) 'Environmental History, Political Economy and Change: Frameworks and Tools for Research and Analysis', Global Environmental Politics, 1, #3 (August), pp. 72-91.

 

Lipschutz, Ronnie D. (2005) 'Global Civil Society and Global Governmentality: Resistance, Reform or Resignation?' in G. Baker and D. Chandler (eds) Global Civil Society: Contested Futures (London: Routledge), pp. 171-85.

 

Lipschutz, Ronnie D. (2005) 'Environmental regulation, certification, and corporate standards: A critique', in Peter Dauvergne (ed.), Handbook of Global Environmental Politics (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar), pp. 218-32.

 

Lipschutz, Ronnie D. (2006) Civil Societies and Social Movements: Domestic, Transnational, Global (Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing). Library of Essays in International Relations.

 

Lipschutz, Ronnie D. (2009) 'Flies in our Eyes: Man, the Economy and War', Millennium: Journal of International Studies 39 (2), pp. 1-27.

 

 

Alister Miskimmon

Miskimmon, Alister (2004) 'Continuity in the face of upheaval - British Strategic Culture and the impact of the Blair Government', in Kerry Longhurst and Marcin Zaborowski (eds) Old Europe, New Europe and Transatlantic Security, Special Edition of European Security, 13 (3), pp. 87-113.

 

Longhurst, Kerry and Miskimmon, Alister (2007) 'Same Challenges, Diverging Responses: Germany, the UK and European Security', German Politics, Vol. 16, No.1.

 

Miskimmon, Alister (2009) 'Falling into line? Kosovo and the course of German foreign policy', International Affairs, 85: 3, pp. 561–573.

 

 

Ben O'Loughlin

Hoskins, Andrew and O'Loughlin, Ben (2007) Television and Terror: Conflicting Times and the Crisis of News Discourse (Palgrave, Basingstoke), chapter 2, 'Television and Time'. (NB: PROOFS)

 

Moss, Giles and O'Loughlin, Ben (2008) 'Convincing Claims: Representation and Democracy in Post-9/11 Britain', Political Studies, Vol. 56:3, pp.705-724.

 

O'Loughlin, Ben (2008) 'The role of academics as security "experts" for news media', Royal Holloway Department of Politics and International Relations/New Political Communication Unit, Working Paper No. 7.

 

Hoskins, Andrew and O'Loughlin, Ben (2009) 'Pre-mediating guilt: Radicalisation and mediality in British news', Critical Terrorism Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1 (April), pp. 81–93.

 

Hoskins, Andrew and O'Loughlin, Ben (2009) 'Media and the Myth of Radicalisation', Media, War & Conflict 2 (2), pp. 107-110.

 

 

Chris Rumford

Rumford, Chris (2010) 'Confronting "uncivil society" and the “dark side of globalization”: are sociological concepts up to the task?', Sociological Research Online 6 (3).

 

Rumford, Chris (2006) 'Borders and rebordering' in G. Delanty (ed) Europe and Asia: Towards a New Cosmopolitanism. Routledge (2006).

 

Rumford, Chris (2007) 'More than a game: globalization and the post-Westernization of world cricket', Global Networks 7 (2), pp. 202-214.

 

Rumford, Chris and Delanty, Gerard, 'Political globalization' in Blackwell Companion to Globalization, ed. George Ritzer (Oxford: Blackwell).

 

Rumford, Chris (2008) 'Social policy beyond fear: the globalization of strangeness, the "War on Terror", and "Spaces of Wonder"', Social Policy and Administration 42 (6), pp. 630-644.

 

Rumford, Chris (2008) 'Finding meaning in meaningless times: emotional responses to terror threats in London' in Terrorism and the Politics of Response: London in a Time of Terror, eds. A. Closs Stephens and N. Vaughan-Williams (London: Routledge).

 

Rumford, Chris (with others) (2009) 'Interventions in the new political geographies of the European "neighborhood"', Political Geography 28, pp. 79-89.

 

 

Jonathan Seglow

Seglow, Jonathan (2009) 'Arguments for Naturalisation', Political Studies, 57.4 (December, forthcoming).

 

Seglow, Jonathan (2010) 'Theories of Religious Exemptions', in Calder, Gideon and Ceva, Emanuela (eds) Diversity in Europe: Dilemmas of Diffential Treatment in Theory and Practice (London: Routledge).

 

Seglow, Jonathan (2010) 'Associative Duties and Global Justice', Journal of Moral Philosophy 7/1.

 

 

Nathan Widder

Widder, Nathan (2000) 'What's Lacking in the Lack: A Comment on the Virtual', Angelaki, 5 (3) pp. 117-138.

 

Widder, Nathan (2001) 'The Rights of Simulacra: Deleuze and the Univocity of Being', Continental Philosophy Review, 34 (4), pp. 437-453.

 

Widder, Nathan (2002) Genealogies of Difference (University of Illinois Press, Chicago), 204pp.

 

Widder, Nathan (2004) 'Foucault and Power Revisited', European Journal of Political Theory, 3 (4), pp. 411-432.

 

Widder, Nathan (2004) 'The Relevance of Nietzsche to Democratic Theory: Micropolitics and the Affirmation of Difference', Contemporary Political Theory, 3 (2), pp. 188-211.

 

Widder, Nathan (2008) Reflections on Time and Politics (Penn State University Press), 220pp.