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There are times in the political life of any nation in which its imagining and reimagining become more intensely political, more conscious and more consciously intersubjective. Brexit has provided ... Left Books. Ashcroft , Richard T., and Mark Bevir . 2018 . Multiculturalism in contemporary Britain: Policy, law and theory . Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 21 ( 1 ): 1
This article contributes to the literature on Conservative Party politics through an exploration of the political rhetoric of former Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader, Harold Macmillan in ... Africa . The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 632 : 41 - 54 . Bitzer , L. 1968 . The Rhetorical Situation . Philosophy and Rhetoric 1 : 1 - 14 . Butler , L. , and S. Stockwell
This article explores and compares the political leadership of two successive British Prime Ministers, Theresa May and Boris Johnson, in their handling of the domestic politics of Brexit. Despite ... argument developed here, using Richard Heffernan's power resources model, is that the explanation for these outcomes does not only arise from a different political context and circumstances under which each
Over the last three decades, there has been a significant growth in media control policies in the UK. Nonetheless, academic literature has so far failed to examine British political elites ... examine British political elites' understandings of the relationship between the media and political violence. This article makes an original contribution by conducting a historical comparison of political
The political salience of local identities has received limited academic attention in the British political science literature. This paper is a step towards addressing this, through a case study of ... explores the political salience and consequences of the Scouse identity and places it in the comparative context of sub-state national identities across Great Britain, namely Englishness, Scottishness, and
mechanisms that bring the ‘voice’ of citizens to the ‘ears’ of political elites. This article responds to this gap, presenting original empirical research examining the UK House of Commons’ e-petitions system ... Political Philosophy 20 ( 1 ): 23 - 44 . Saward , M. 2001 . Making Democratic Connections: Political Equality. Deliberation and Direct Democracy . Acta Politica 36 ( 4 ): 361 - 379 . Schmidt , V. 2013
construction of Boris Johnson's pandemic narrative. The article makes the case for viewing Johnson’s COVID-19 narrative in light of broader political dynamics within UK politics, particularly adaptations of ... argues that the narrative itself can be a product of multiple political crises and projects. Specifically, Johnson's pandemic narrative 'fused' and 'layered' elements of two other narratives advanced
autobiographies and biographies of prominent Scottish female politicians. The findings demonstrate that Scottish feminine political leadership has been strongly moulded by a rejection of Westminster’s archaic and ... early twenty-first century by exploring the gendered dimensions of female Scottish political leadership. We argue that the rising prominence of women in Scottish politics is the outcome of decades of
politics’ preoccupation with the philosophy and political economy of the governing party. Other topics that feature prominently were leader selection and Europe broadly (including Brexit). Meanwhile, in ... understanding of the political world that can be used to find solutions to important social and political problems. In other words, we know that many of the most urgent problems we face as a society are rooted
results demonstrate that the conservation situation faced by a primate species can differ greatly depending on local, national, and range wide political and social situations. Therefore, we recommend that ... species crosses political boundaries, it is unlikely that the threats it faces in one area will be the same across the range due to differences in history, cultures, laws, and social issues in different
Department of Social and Political Sciences , Philosophy, and Anthropology , University of Exeter , Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ , UK 1 Department of International Relations , Politics and History
, constructions of temporality were fundamental to the social, political, and historical positioning of the virus. Second, these constructions were constitutively important in producing, explaining, justifying and ... political; the Prime Minister's own recent recovery from the coronavirus providing a productive metonym for his cautiously optimistic narrative of national resilience. Less obvious, perhaps, but as vital to
democratic institutions. The direct role of political alienation in building support for such anti-establishment causes has, however, barely been examined. This study addresses this gap and uses previous ... literature on political alienation to build a model to test the claim that Brexit was (at least in part) driven by political alienation in UK citizens. The analyses show that while political alienation did
This article outlines the Conservative Party’s approach to climate change from 2015 to 2022; focusing on its governing policy record and the wider political considerations that shaped it. During this ... competing political incentives for its leaders and internal party division on the issue. A detailed exploration of Conservative climate policies allows for two broader contributions. European centre-right
dynamics have resulted in and reflected a deeply fractured British society and have highlighted the prevalence of political amateurism in the British political class. ... parochialism.16 Such negative appeals championed a pro-Europeanism that “became a proxy for the fusion of economic and social liberalism that had been a dominant philosophy of the political mainstream for a
Weinberg 0 0 Lecturer in Political Behaviour, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield , Elmfield Building, Northumberland Road, Sheffield S10 2TU , UK In the original
Entrenched inequalities in political participation have made the questions of who participates and when, why, or how some of the most frequently asked and researched in political science. Building on
’, selecting methodological approaches necessarily built on particular political economic assumptions. Finally, a ‘politics of numbers’ sees politicians cooking the books to present their economic record ... fiscal yardsticks. Successive governments have altered UK fiscal rules, informed by different political economic principles. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) sees itself as a technocratic and
In recent years, many scholars, mainly those focusing on populism, have analysed the role of ‘the people’ in politics. This has allowed us to understand how many political actors emphasize the ... measured using the following question: How do political leaders use the word 'people'? The analysis was conducted on Twitter through the study of the accounts of the foremost political leaders in the UK
over time. Gendered accounts of political parties emphasise that a feminised party must—at its core—integrate women into its structures, and address women’s policy concerns, acknowledging that the latter ... are complex and contested (Lovenduski 2005; Childs 2008; Childs and Webb 2012) . We explore these different dimensions of descriptive and substantive feminisation across the main Scottish political
