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Governing as New Labour
Abstract This chapter examines the varied policies criminal justice civil liberties immigration a... more Abstract This chapter examines the varied policies criminal justice civil liberties immigration and asylum enacted by New Labour through the Home Office since 1997. It argues that these policies represent a complex mix of principle in reference to the ideas of both New ...
The British Journal of Politics and International Relations
Theresa May’s premiership is widely acknowledged to have been a failure, but political commentato... more Theresa May’s premiership is widely acknowledged to have been a failure, but political commentators and the scholarly literature have, thus far, tended to focus on May’s misuse of her agency. This article argues that May’s premiership presents a particularly powerful example of the need to disentangle structure and agency when assessing prime ministerial performance. Drawing upon the work of Stephen Skowronek, it sets out a framework of evaluating prime ministerial agency in ‘political time’. This is then used to show how the conditions and circumstances in which May governed limited the feasibility, increased the costs, and compromised the effectiveness of her actions in office. We argue that this confirms that May was a victim of circumstances as much as a victim of her own agency.
Politique Europeenne, Jun 1, 2002
Cameron and the Conservatives, 2012
The Political Quarterly, 2002
Parliamentary Affairs, 2011
... Alan Bleasdale maintains that Michael Murray was not inspired by Derek Hatton, but that the p... more ... Alan Bleasdale maintains that Michael Murray was not inspired by Derek Hatton, but that the principal characters of GBH were manifestations of ... For Liesbet van Zoonen, 'The actions and promises of politicians make more sense when they can be framed as part of a narrative ...
British Politics, 2009
Abstract This paper seeks to consider the New Labour project using insights drawn from a growing ... more Abstract This paper seeks to consider the New Labour project using insights drawn from a growing literature on temporality. The paper first explores New Labour's partisan and complex mobilisation of memory. It is argued that the disarticulation of the party from its ...
The Political Quarterly, Apr 1, 2009
This article contributes to the developing literature on prime ministerial performance in the Uni... more This article contributes to the developing literature on prime ministerial performance in the United Kingdom by applying a critical reading of Stephen Skowronek’s account of leadership in ‘political time’ to evaluate David Cameron’s premiership. This, we propose, better understands the inter-relationship of structure and agency in prime ministerial performance than existing frameworks, particularly those based on Greenstein’s and Bulpitt’s approaches. We identify Cameron as a disjunctive prime minister, but find it necessary significantly to develop the model of disjunctive leadership beyond that offered by Skowronek. We identify the warrants to authority, strategies and dilemmas associated with disjunctive leadership in the United Kingdom. We argue that Cameron was relatively skilful in meeting many of the challenges confronting an affiliated leader of a vulnerable regime. However, his second term exposed deep fractures in the regime, which proved beyond Cameron’s skills as a disjunctive leader.
Governing as New Labour
Abstract This chapter examines the varied policies criminal justice civil liberties immigration a... more Abstract This chapter examines the varied policies criminal justice civil liberties immigration and asylum enacted by New Labour through the Home Office since 1997. It argues that these policies represent a complex mix of principle in reference to the ideas of both New ...
The British Journal of Politics and International Relations
Theresa May’s premiership is widely acknowledged to have been a failure, but political commentato... more Theresa May’s premiership is widely acknowledged to have been a failure, but political commentators and the scholarly literature have, thus far, tended to focus on May’s misuse of her agency. This article argues that May’s premiership presents a particularly powerful example of the need to disentangle structure and agency when assessing prime ministerial performance. Drawing upon the work of Stephen Skowronek, it sets out a framework of evaluating prime ministerial agency in ‘political time’. This is then used to show how the conditions and circumstances in which May governed limited the feasibility, increased the costs, and compromised the effectiveness of her actions in office. We argue that this confirms that May was a victim of circumstances as much as a victim of her own agency.
Politique Europeenne, Jun 1, 2002
Cameron and the Conservatives, 2012
The Political Quarterly, 2002
Parliamentary Affairs, 2011
... Alan Bleasdale maintains that Michael Murray was not inspired by Derek Hatton, but that the p... more ... Alan Bleasdale maintains that Michael Murray was not inspired by Derek Hatton, but that the principal characters of GBH were manifestations of ... For Liesbet van Zoonen, 'The actions and promises of politicians make more sense when they can be framed as part of a narrative ...
British Politics, 2009
Abstract This paper seeks to consider the New Labour project using insights drawn from a growing ... more Abstract This paper seeks to consider the New Labour project using insights drawn from a growing literature on temporality. The paper first explores New Labour's partisan and complex mobilisation of memory. It is argued that the disarticulation of the party from its ...
The Political Quarterly, Apr 1, 2009
This article contributes to the developing literature on prime ministerial performance in the Uni... more This article contributes to the developing literature on prime ministerial performance in the United Kingdom by applying a critical reading of Stephen Skowronek’s account of leadership in ‘political time’ to evaluate David Cameron’s premiership. This, we propose, better understands the inter-relationship of structure and agency in prime ministerial performance than existing frameworks, particularly those based on Greenstein’s and Bulpitt’s approaches. We identify Cameron as a disjunctive prime minister, but find it necessary significantly to develop the model of disjunctive leadership beyond that offered by Skowronek. We identify the warrants to authority, strategies and dilemmas associated with disjunctive leadership in the United Kingdom. We argue that Cameron was relatively skilful in meeting many of the challenges confronting an affiliated leader of a vulnerable regime. However, his second term exposed deep fractures in the regime, which proved beyond Cameron’s skills as a disjunctive leader.