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British Politics (2006) 1, 413–418. doi:10.1057/palgrave.bp.4200027
What is and isn't to be Defended as British Politics: Whose Past, Whose Present, and Whose Future? A Comment on Kerr and Kettell
Ron Johnston1
1School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1SS, UK. E-mail: R.Johnston@bristol.ac.uk
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Abstract
A response to an essay by Kerr and Kettell on British politics, identifying a major lacuna in their coverage and their deployment of the politics of silence to marginalise a particular type of theory and its associated empirical work.
Keywords:
theory, elections, psephology, theory wars
