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Papers by Iain McLean
The Political Quarterly, Apr 1, 1976
Political Studies, Mar 1, 1973
Oxford University Press eBooks, Sep 29, 2005
By-Elections in British Politics, 1973
The Oxford and Bridgwater by-elections pose problems of interpretation in many ways similar to th... more The Oxford and Bridgwater by-elections pose problems of interpretation in many ways similar to those at East Fulham five years earlier. The British electorate is notoriously uninterested in, and uninformed about, foreign policy issues; yet here are three by-elections which, in the eyes of the candidates and of most commentators, were won and lost on foreign policy. The results were almost universally regarded as the voters’ verdicts on the foreign policy issues of the day. Baldwin thought that East Fulham had been fought and lost ‘on no issue but the pacifist’, and that the voters’ verdict made it impossible to present the country with a rearmament programme. In October and November 1938 Oxford and Bridgwater were taken to be the voters’ commentary on Munich, though there was some dispute as to what the voters were saying.
Adam Smith, Radical and Egalitarian, 2006
Three of Gordon Brown’s questions in the Edinburgh speech which set the framework for this book a... more Three of Gordon Brown’s questions in the Edinburgh speech which set the framework for this book are: Is Smith, the author of the invisible hand, also the Smith of the helping hand?
The Economic History Review, 1984
The Political Quarterly, 2016
choix social moderne, c'est-à-dire celles de Copeland (généralisation de la règle de Condorc... more choix social moderne, c'est-à-dire celles de Copeland (généralisation de la règle de Condorcet) et de Borda, ont été proposées par Llull et Cusanus plusieurs siècles avant l'«âge d'or » du choix social à la fin du XVIIIème siècle. Les deux approches modernes fondamentales du choix social sont déjà formulées dans ces travaux de l'époque médiévale: l’approche aléatoire (agrégation de jugements imparfaits) et l'approche d'agrégation des intérêts. Nous examinons les procédures d'élection des papes au Moyen-âge, ainsi qu'au sein des ordres religieux. We take institutions seriously as both a rational response to dilemmas in which agents found themselves and a frame to which later rational agents adapted their behaviour in turn. Medieval corporate bodies knew that they needed choice procedures. Although the social choice advances of ancient Greece and Rome were not rediscovered until the high middle ages, the rational design of choice institutions pr...
Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law, 2014
The Politics of Regulation
Adam Smith, Radical and Egalitarian, 2006
Adam Smith led a quiet, uneventful life. As a child, he was initially sickly and protected by his... more Adam Smith led a quiet, uneventful life. As a child, he was initially sickly and protected by his widowed mother. As an adult, he was notoriously absent-minded. In 1767 a society hostess recorded in her diary: I said many things in his [AS’s] praise, but added that he was the most Absent Man that ever was … Mr Darner … made him a visit the other morning as he was going to breakfast, and, falling into discourse, Mr Smith took a piece of bread and butter, which, after he had rolled round and round, he put into the teapot and pour’d the water upon it; some time after he poured it into a cup, and when he had tasted it, he said it was the worst tea he had ever met with. (Lady Mary Coke, aunt of AS’s tutee the Duke of Buccleuch. Cited by Ross 1995, p. 226)
Adam Smith, Radical and Egalitarian, 2006
In this chapter I attempt to pick up all the threads that I have deliberately left loose so far. ... more In this chapter I attempt to pick up all the threads that I have deliberately left loose so far. Probably, Smith was no great sympathiser with the French Revolution. But his writing supports all three of the slogans of that revolution. He was in favour of liberty, of equality and of the one that is most usually ignored nowadays, namely fraternity. Therefore the first half of this chapter reviews what Smith has to say to us on each of those three subjects.
Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, 1992
List of plates List of abbreviations Introduction From a colliery boy to an engineer: the birth o... more List of plates List of abbreviations Introduction From a colliery boy to an engineer: the birth of an agitator Social democracy: new hopes and disenchantment The London dock strike: i) The revolt of the dockers The London dock strike: ii) 'The Tanner or a General Strike' New Unionism and class conflict Labour politics: new vistas and labyrinths International trade unionism An Australasian interlude Syndicalism and labour unrest War and revolution: i) A responsible patriot War and revolution: ii) The road to communism Last missions: i) The RILU and the minority movement Last missions: ii) The Chinese Revolution: A journey to Wuhan Last missions: iii) Militant trade unionism and the unemployed march Twilight years Epilogue Select bibliography Index
The Political Quarterly, Apr 1, 1976
Political Studies, Mar 1, 1973
Oxford University Press eBooks, Sep 29, 2005
By-Elections in British Politics, 1973
The Oxford and Bridgwater by-elections pose problems of interpretation in many ways similar to th... more The Oxford and Bridgwater by-elections pose problems of interpretation in many ways similar to those at East Fulham five years earlier. The British electorate is notoriously uninterested in, and uninformed about, foreign policy issues; yet here are three by-elections which, in the eyes of the candidates and of most commentators, were won and lost on foreign policy. The results were almost universally regarded as the voters’ verdicts on the foreign policy issues of the day. Baldwin thought that East Fulham had been fought and lost ‘on no issue but the pacifist’, and that the voters’ verdict made it impossible to present the country with a rearmament programme. In October and November 1938 Oxford and Bridgwater were taken to be the voters’ commentary on Munich, though there was some dispute as to what the voters were saying.
Adam Smith, Radical and Egalitarian, 2006
Three of Gordon Brown’s questions in the Edinburgh speech which set the framework for this book a... more Three of Gordon Brown’s questions in the Edinburgh speech which set the framework for this book are: Is Smith, the author of the invisible hand, also the Smith of the helping hand?
The Economic History Review, 1984
The Political Quarterly, 2016
choix social moderne, c'est-à-dire celles de Copeland (généralisation de la règle de Condorc... more choix social moderne, c'est-à-dire celles de Copeland (généralisation de la règle de Condorcet) et de Borda, ont été proposées par Llull et Cusanus plusieurs siècles avant l'«âge d'or » du choix social à la fin du XVIIIème siècle. Les deux approches modernes fondamentales du choix social sont déjà formulées dans ces travaux de l'époque médiévale: l’approche aléatoire (agrégation de jugements imparfaits) et l'approche d'agrégation des intérêts. Nous examinons les procédures d'élection des papes au Moyen-âge, ainsi qu'au sein des ordres religieux. We take institutions seriously as both a rational response to dilemmas in which agents found themselves and a frame to which later rational agents adapted their behaviour in turn. Medieval corporate bodies knew that they needed choice procedures. Although the social choice advances of ancient Greece and Rome were not rediscovered until the high middle ages, the rational design of choice institutions pr...
Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law, 2014
The Politics of Regulation
Adam Smith, Radical and Egalitarian, 2006
Adam Smith led a quiet, uneventful life. As a child, he was initially sickly and protected by his... more Adam Smith led a quiet, uneventful life. As a child, he was initially sickly and protected by his widowed mother. As an adult, he was notoriously absent-minded. In 1767 a society hostess recorded in her diary: I said many things in his [AS’s] praise, but added that he was the most Absent Man that ever was … Mr Darner … made him a visit the other morning as he was going to breakfast, and, falling into discourse, Mr Smith took a piece of bread and butter, which, after he had rolled round and round, he put into the teapot and pour’d the water upon it; some time after he poured it into a cup, and when he had tasted it, he said it was the worst tea he had ever met with. (Lady Mary Coke, aunt of AS’s tutee the Duke of Buccleuch. Cited by Ross 1995, p. 226)
Adam Smith, Radical and Egalitarian, 2006
In this chapter I attempt to pick up all the threads that I have deliberately left loose so far. ... more In this chapter I attempt to pick up all the threads that I have deliberately left loose so far. Probably, Smith was no great sympathiser with the French Revolution. But his writing supports all three of the slogans of that revolution. He was in favour of liberty, of equality and of the one that is most usually ignored nowadays, namely fraternity. Therefore the first half of this chapter reviews what Smith has to say to us on each of those three subjects.
Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, 1992
List of plates List of abbreviations Introduction From a colliery boy to an engineer: the birth o... more List of plates List of abbreviations Introduction From a colliery boy to an engineer: the birth of an agitator Social democracy: new hopes and disenchantment The London dock strike: i) The revolt of the dockers The London dock strike: ii) 'The Tanner or a General Strike' New Unionism and class conflict Labour politics: new vistas and labyrinths International trade unionism An Australasian interlude Syndicalism and labour unrest War and revolution: i) A responsible patriot War and revolution: ii) The road to communism Last missions: i) The RILU and the minority movement Last missions: ii) The Chinese Revolution: A journey to Wuhan Last missions: iii) Militant trade unionism and the unemployed march Twilight years Epilogue Select bibliography Index