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Putting it Right? The Labour Party's Big Shift on Immigration Since 2010
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Putting it right? The labour party's big shift on immigration since 2010, which has been published in final form at 10.1111/1467-923X.12091. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving
In life as in death? Margaret Thatcher (mis) remembered
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edit version of an article published in British Politics. The definitive publisher-authenticated version of In life as in death? Margaret Thatcher (mis)remembered is available online at: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/bp/journal/v10/n1/full/bp201426a.htm
Solar Wind Electric Fields in the Ion Cyclotron Frequency Range
Measurements of fluctuations of electric fields in the frequency range from a
fraction of one Hz to 12.5 Hz are presented, and corrected for the Lorentz
transformation of magnetic fluctuations to give the electric fields in the
plasma frame. The electric fields are large enough to provide the dominant
force on the ions of the solar wind in the region near the ion cyclotron
frequency of protons, larger than the force due to magnetic fluctuations. They
provide sufficient velocity space diffusion or heating to counteract
conservation of magnetic moment in the expanding solar wind to maintain nearly
isotropic velocity distributions
Immigration and asylum policy under Cameron's Conservatives
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in British Politics. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Partos, Rebecca, and Tim Bale. "Immigration and asylum policy under Cameronâs Conservatives." British Politics 10.2 (2015): 169-184 is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/bp.2015.20© 2015, Palgrave Macmilla
More and More Restrictive-But Not Always Populist: Explaining Variation in the British Conservative Party's Stance on Immigration and Asylum
This is the Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies Vol. 21, Iss. 1, copyright Taylor & Francis 2013, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14782804.2013.766474Centre-right parties are commonly inclined towards appeals and policies on immigration that are both restrictive in nature and populist in tone-in part because this is what they believe in, in part because it affords them an electoral advantage over their rivals on the centre-left. One would expect, however, that the extent to which they focus on immigration and asylum will vary according to public opinion, according to who leads them, and according to whether they are in government or in opposition. This would appear to be the case for the British Conservative Party, but the relationship is not an entirely consistent one. Moreover, while the Party has, for half a century, pursued ever more restrictive policies, the extent to which it has couched its approach in populist rhetoric varies considerably over time-and not always in line with the severity of its stance on immigration. The reason for this lies partly in the social and economic liberalism of some of its leaders (and in their related concern to act 'responsibly' on race and immigration) but also in their anxiety not to alienate key sections of the middle classes who must be persuaded to support the Party if it is to win elections. These considerations are likely to weigh heavily with other centre-right parties, too. © 2013 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC
Local party membersâ views are associated, but not completely congruent, with local constituency opinion
Do local political party members reflect the views of voters in their constituencies? Since candidate selection by local party members is the most common form of candidate selection in the United Kingdom, it is important to understand local party membersâ views, and how those views relate to views in the local area. We investigate the degree to which individual membersâ views match local opinion by combining the results of a large-scale survey of party members in the United Kingdom with estimates of local opinion created using multilevel regression and post-stratification. We find that individual party membersâ views are moderately to strongly associated with local opinion on both left-right and liberty-authority dimensions. Even so, party members are not entirely congruent with opinion in the local area, having opinions which are either to the left or right of voters in their local area, and which are uniformly more liberal than party supporters
Measurement of the electric fluctuation spectrum of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the solar wind is observed to show
the spectral behavior of classical Kolmogorov fluid turbulence over an inertial
subrange and departures from this at short wavelengths, where energy should be
dissipated. Here we present the first measurements of the electric field
fluctuation spectrum over the inertial and dissipative wavenumber ranges in a
plasma. The inertial subrange is observed and
agrees strikingly with the magnetic fluctuation spectrum; the wave phase speed
in this regime is shown to be consistent with the Alfv\'en speed. At smaller
wavelengths the electric spectrum is softer and is consistent
with the expected dispersion relation of short-wavelength kinetic Alfv\'en
waves. Kinetic Alfv\'en waves damp on the solar wind ions and electrons and may
act to isotropize them. This effect may explain the fluid-like nature of the
solar wind.Comment: submitted; 4 pages + 3 figure
Large parallel and perpendicular electric fields on electron spatial scales in the terrestrial bow shock
Large parallel ( 100 mV/m) and perpendicular ( 600 mV/m) electric
fields were measured in the Earth's bow shock by the vector electric field
experiment on the Polar satellite. These are the first reported direct
measurements of parallel electric fields in a collisionless shock. These fields
exist on spatial scales comparable to or less than the electron skin depth (a
few kilometers) and correspond to magnetic field-aligned potentials of tens of
volts and perpendicular potentials up to a kilovolt. The perpendicular fields
are amongst the largest ever measured in space, with energy densities of
of order 10%. The measured parallel electric field
implies that the electrons can be demagnetized, which may result in stochastic
(rather than coherent) electron heating
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