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Editorial

• Where were you on June 7?   

Features

• Looking out from Brussels - The EU’s External Role
  Chris Patten gives his views on how the EU - and the Commission in particular - is meeting the very considerable challenges it has to address.
• General Election Special
  How devolution changes the General Election and why so many voters stayed at home.
• Banking on Economic Stability
  The Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury explains how a decision taken in the days after the 1997 General Election was the key to establishing a new framework of stability in Britain.   

Profile

• Frances Cairncross - Taking the Chair
  How will Frances Cairncross, Management Editor of The Economist be seeking to reshape the ESRC?    

Research Special

• Parents, Work and Worries
  Part-time work offers the best balance between work and life for mothers but there are big variations in the willingness of employers to offer it.    

Research News

•  Managers struggle to succeed at work and family life
• Are we saving enough?
• A question of identity
• High staff turnover spells problems for call centre operations
• Better branding leads to more charitable giving
• Firms still love expats
• Who pays low wages?
• A new look at the business cycle   

Looking Forward

• A selection of new ESRC-funded research