Parliamentary Affairs: Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary politics

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The latest issue of Parliamentary Affairs includes a focus on Devolution: Ten Years On.

This special issue of Parliamentary Affairs looks at how devolution has taken place over the past 10 years, examining the devolved institutions and how politics has developed in these differing environs, as well as the implications for Westminster.

As well as abstracts from the articles (see Editor's Notes), Parliamentary Affairs podcasts are also available. These are interviews with the authors designed to explore themes from their work. The podcasts are between 10 and 15 minutes long, and designed to inform researchers and to serve as teaching tools to stimulate discussion amongst students.

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Editors' Notes

• The January 2010 issue contains the following articles. Click on the title to read an abstract from each article:
• Jocelyn Evans and Steven Fielding Editorial
• Galina Borisyuk, Ron Johnston, Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher Parliamentary Constituency Boundary Reviews and Electoral Bias: How Important are Variations in Constituency Size?
• Francesco Cavatorta and Robert Elgie The Impact of Semi-Presidentialism on Governance in the Palestinian Authority
• Éric Bélanger and Jean-François Godbout Why Do Parties Merge? The Case of the Conservative Party of Canada
• Hugh Bochel and Andrew Defty A Question of Expertise: The House of Lords and Welfare Policy

o Devolution : Ten Years On (edited by James Mitchell)

• James Mitchell Introduction: The Westminster Model and the State of the Unions
• Bruce Crawford Ten Years of Devolution
• James Mitchell The Narcissism of Small Differences: Scotland and Westminster
• Alan Trench Wales and the Westminster Model
• Rick Wilford Northern Ireland: The Politics of Constraint
• Vernon Bogdanor The West Lothian Question

o Research Note

• Philip Cowley and Mark Stuart Party Rules, OK: Voting in the House of Commons on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill

o Practitioners

• Jonathan Tonge and Andrew Mycock Citizenship and Political Engagement among Young People: the Workings and Findings of the Youth Citizenship Commission

o Hansard Society

• Alex Brazier and Ruth Fox Enhancing the Backbench MP's Role as a Legislator: The Call for Urgent Reform of Private Members Bills

o Reviews

• Arthur Aughey Devolution in the UK (James Mitchell)
• Cristina Chiva Opposing Europe? The Comparative Party Politics of Euroscepticism, Volume I: Case Studies and Country Surveys; Volume II: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives (Aleks Szczerbiak and Paul Taggart, Eds)

• The next issue of Parliamentary Affairs will be published in April 2010.