Ian Mclean
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 137744 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ian Mclean |
| NOMBRES | Ian |
| APELLIDO | Mclean |
| FIRMA | MCLEAN I |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5607-5966 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 132 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 525 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 132 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Successes and Failures of Benjamin Disraeli’s Rhetoric and Heresthetics
It is not news that Benjamin Disraeli was a reckless and shape-shifting politician. This chapter claims that he was one of those rare shape-shifters who practised what has been called ‘heresthetics’, namely the art and science of turning a losing position to a winning one. His manoeuvres in 1846 (Corn Laws), 1867‒68 (Reform) and 1876 (Royal Title Bill) show him at his heresthetic finest. Although it took him 30 years, he both destroyed and rebuil…
Hybrid choice systems in small-n elections with sophisticated electorates
Faced with the classic paradoxes of voting, system designers have sometimes offered hybrid systems. The paper reviews Condorcet–Borda hybrids proposed by Daunou, Dodgson, Nanson, and Kemeny; and Borda-Balinski hybrids in use in at least one scientific academy. The justification of the hybrids is practical rather than theoretical, as they cannot escape the known features of their parent systems. In particular, as Condorcet showed in 1788, all Bord…
Synthetic biology education and pedagogy
Synthetic biology is a growing field with an increasing number of successful applications. Yet, synthetic biology (SynBio) education initiatives are underreported and disconnected from each other. In this review we survey the literature on SynBio education and stratify this body of work into three categories: classroom activities, course designs, and program-level curricula-planning. For each category, we discuss the methods used to assess studen…
J. M. R. Lenz and the Problem of Soldiers
In his essay ‘Über die Soldatenehen’ and his fragmentary writings on military reforms Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz uses the distinctly moderate discourse of physiocratic economics to the radical ends of a complete restructuring of social relations. Lenz turns the logic of the physiocrats against more moderate reform efforts and presents a model of economic circulation that emphasises the role of labour in stark opposition to the physiocratic empha…
Of Crises, Constitutionalism and Irresponsible Advisers
Permanent private secretaries to the monarch are not elected, nor are they chosen on civil service criteria. They also have no formal legal training, despite the fact that their advice can be vital during constitutional crises. We test Ivor Jennings's claim that private secretaries serve as ‘irresponsible advisers’ to the Crown, who may have influence in political disputes, and whether that influence may serve political interests. Four case studi…
An Ethics of Appropriation
The No-men of England
The Scotland and Wales Acts 1978 failed on multiple criteria. Although devolution of powers to Scotland and Wales was a principal policy of the UK Labour governments in office from 1974 to 1979, it was defeated in a guillotine vote in 1977. That defeat was orchestrated by the leaders of Tyne & Wear County Council, angry that a government of their own party was apparently neglecting their region in favor of Scotland. The project was rescued in two…
The No‐men of England
The Scotland and Wales Acts 1978 failed on multiple criteria. Although devolution of powers to Scotland and Wales was a principal policy of the Labour governments in office from 1974 to 1979, it was defeated in a guillotine vote in 1977. That defeat was orchestrated by the leaders of Tyne & Wear County Council, angry that a government of their own party was apparently neglecting their region in favour of Scotland. The project was rescued in two s…
The strange history of social choice, and the contribution of the Public Choice Society to its fifth revival
Spending Too Much, Taxing Too Little? Parliaments in Fiscal Federalism
In aggregate, general government spending in a democracy always tends to exceed general government revenue. This is because local orders of government typically raise less than they spend, with the difference covered by a block grant. This sets up well-known moral hazards associated with the resultant vertical fiscal imbalance. Various strategies for reducing this moral hazard are discussed, with foci on the possibilities of secession and of find…
Post‐Western Poetics
For the first time, the exhibition Magicians of the Earth (Pompidou, 1989) put Western artists in competition with large numbers of non-Western ones. This new globalism willfully disregarded a key feature of the modernist period, in which non-Western art was quarantined from the discourse of contemporary art. However, modernism had been challenged a full decade before Magicians of the Earth, with the advent of postmodernism. With this in mind, th…
Overrepresenting Ukip, Underrepresenting the Greens and Lib Dems
Revisiting a study conducted by McLean and Johnston in 2009, this article analyses the results of the 2014 European elections in Great Britain. Britain uses a regional list system to select its members of the European Parliament. The d'Hondt method, which is used to allocate votes to seats within each of the 11 regional constituencies in Britain, is shown to have allocated three more MEPs to the UK Independence Party (UKIP) than they would have r…
Introduction
Legally Married
What does it really mean to be legally married?GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748683789','ISBN:9780748683796','ISBN:9780748683819','ISBN:9780748683772']);What marriage is is not easy question to answer, considering the variety of cultures, religions and laws of different countries. From English teenagers eloping to Gretna Green to tie the knot without their parents' permission, to whether a wife can own property, it's clear that marriage…
Making Sense as a Cultural Practice
The production of sense is a central field of action of cultural and political practice. The articles examine how, in different contexts, the construction of sense and its outcome as a cultural practice
Contemporaneous Traditions
In the 1980s postmodernism’s retro culture was widely diagnosed as the endgame of modernism. Some suggested that a bigger endgame was in play. Hal Foster glimpsed the end of a ruling civilisation: ‘a moment when the West, its limit apparently broached by an all but global capital, has begun to recycle its own historical episodes’.2 By the end of the century the West’s cultural hegemony did indeed seem over. From about 1990 global capital began de…
Report of the Commission on the Consequences of Devolution for the House of Commons (the McKay Commission)
The report of the McKay Commission on the Consequences of Devolution for the House of Commons is reviewed. The Commission, which contained experts on parliamentary procedure, raised a number of important and difficult questions; the answers are less impressive than the questions. In view of the difficulties of any scheme, including that proposed by the Commission, for what is popularly known as “English Votes on English Laws,” policymakers should…
Deliberation, Single-Peakedness, and the Possibility of Meaningful Democracy
Majority cycling and related social choice paradoxes are often thought to threaten the meaningfulness of democracy. Deliberation can protect against majority cycles—not by inducing unanimity, which is unrealistic, but by bringing preferences closer to single-peakedness. We present the first empirical test of this hypothesis, using data from Deliberative Polls. Comparing preferences before and after deliberation, we find increases in proximity to …
Reinventing the Savage
The noble aims of ‘Exhibitions: L'Invention du Sauvage’ (‘Human Zoos: The Invention of the Savage’) at the Musée du quai Branly were not enough to counter the museum's primitivist postmodern architecture or the exhibition's curatorial strategy. Presenting a large number of archival images, as if documents of a barbaric age, along with declamatory wall texts that outline the sins of colonialism might satisfy the guilty conscience of the postcoloni…
England Does Not Love Coalitions
In mid-2011, it certainly looks as if England does not love coalitions, or at any rate the coalition that is governing it. The phrase was coined by Benjamin Disraeli in 1852. This article begins with the context in which Disraeli spoke, then gradually broadens its scope from England to the UK to the set of advanced democracies. Modern political economy has a great deal to say on the subject of coalitions. In conclusion we return to the prospects …
To what extent does deprivation affect the performance of English local authorities
The UK Government has placed increasing emphasis on the use of performance assessment schemes with the aim of improving the delivery of public services. An example of such schemes is the Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA). The CPA subjects English local authorities to annual audits and the collection of hundreds of performance indicators to arrive at final ratings that lead to corresponding rewards and sanctions. This article shows that t…
Political Science and History
Against Anne Norton, it is argued that political science and history are good neighbours. Instances are given to show that the two disciplines need each other, both in political thought and in comparative government. Political scientists need historians to help understand important but improbable events. Historians need political scientists to help understand sampling issues and statistical methodology
Bedford, Paddy
Aboriginal Australian contemporary art, 1990–2010
Provincialism Upturned
Modernism’s crisis of legitimisation (ie, postmodernism) made one thing very clear: what had previously been given was taken away. This given – the ideology associated with European imperialism and its particular form of modernity – was forever rescinded at the close of the 1980s with the end of the Cold War. This opened new opportunities that chimed with what Araeen called the Third World ‘critical discourse of the globalisation of modernism’ In…
Between first and second order
In Britain, both local elections and European elections can be regarded as second–order. However, voters believe that even less is at stake in European elections than in local elections, and their behaviour is congruent with this: voters are more likely to turn out in local elections, they are more likely to ‘split their ticket’ they are more likely to report that they vote on issues specific to the second–order arena. Logistic regression of part…
UK OC OK? Interpreting Optimal Classification Scores for the U.K. House of Commons
Poole's (2000, Non-parametric unfolding of binary choice data. Political Analysis 8:211–37) nonparametric Optimal Classification procedure for binary data produces misleading rank orderings when applied to the modern House of Commons. With simulations and qualitative evidence, we show that the problem arises from the government-versus-opposition nature of British (Westminster) parliamentary politics and the strategic voting that is entailed there…
Deliberation, Single-Peakedness, and the Possibility of Meaningful Democracy
Majority cycling and related social choice paradoxes are often thought to threaten the meaningfulness of democracy. Deliberation can protect against majority cycles—not by inducing unanimity, which is unrealistic, but by bringing preferences closer to single-peakedness. We present the first empirical test of this hypothesis, using data from Deliberative Polls. Comparing preferences before and after deliberation, we find increases in proximity to …
Comparative Journal Ratings
The expert survey and bibliometric methods of assessing the quality of work in political science are complementary. This project builds on previous surveys of academic political science journals conducted among US political scientists. The current wave extends the survey to political scientists in Canada and the UK. Preliminary results suggest both similarities and differences across the three countries. These results matter for policy debate in …
Are Scotland and Wales Over‐represented in the House of Commons
Apportionment and the boundary commission for England
None of the Above
The Rights and Wrongs of Roll Calls
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Power, Power Indices and Blocking Power
R. J. Johnston produces two striking and counter-intuitive results on bargaining power in a European Union Council of Ministers expanded by the addition of the four states applying for entry in 1994. One is that the ‘big four’ member states, including the United Kingdom, have more power if the minority with power to block a proposal is set at 27 rather than 23. UK Prime Minister John Major damaged himself politically by first insisting that he wo…
Irish Potatoes and British Politics
The Repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 remains one of the most fascinating events in the history of political economy. A parliament securely controlled by the party of agriculture, which was the main beneficiary of protection, abolished protection. Explanations have included the hegemony of Manchester School economics; class conflict; the effectiveness of the Anti-Corn Law League; the personality of Sir Robert Peel; and evangelical religion. We aim …
A note on rose's proportionality index
The Social Contract in Leviathan and the Prisoner's Dilemma Supergame
The familiar problem of whether Hobbesian men in the state of nature would ever abide by an agreement to obey a Sovereign is a version of the puzzle now known as ‘Prisoner's Dilemma’. The present paper has the following aims: (1) To establish that the game-theory approach is a legitimate way to study Hobbes. (2) To see whether a proposed ‘solution’ to the paradox of Prisoner's Dilemma applies to this example. The paradox is that individually rati…
Fiscal Federalism in Australia
Australia displays high vertical fiscal imbalance (VFI) for historical and constitutional reasons. It also attempts to achieve the highest degree of horizontal fiscal equalization (HFE) to be found in any democratic federation. The Commonwealth Grants Commission (CGC), a non‐partisan body at arm's length from politicians, oversees the regime. A recent report claims that equity, efficiency and transparency would all improve if the regime were abol…
Supply-Side Shocks
A literature has developed recently to analyze the disruptive effects on small, open economies of a sudden change in the value of their natural resources. The paper looks to that literature to explain the effect on the Australian colonies of the discovery of substantial gold deposits in the 1850s. The price and quantity adjustments predicted by the model are found to be well supported by the historical experience with one important exception. Imm…
The Problem of Proportionate Swing
The Rise and Fall of the Scottish National Party
Can the Boundary Commissions Help the Conservative Party? Constituency Size and Electoral Bias in the United Kingdom
As part of a strategy to remove perceived biases operating against it in the system used for elections to the House of Commons, the British Conservative party is promoting a revision of the rules used by the Boundary Commissions to ensure greater equality in constituency electorates. A Bill designed to achieve this—and also to reduce the size of the House—was introduced to the House of Lords in 2007. This paper critiques that Bill and suggests an…
Electing Popes
July 01 1998 Electing Popes: Approval Balloting and Qualified-Majority Rule Josep M. Colomer, Josep M. Colomer Professor of Political Science at the Higher Council of Scientific Research, Barcelona, and Georgetown University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Iain McLean Iain McLean Professor of Politics, Oxford University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Infor…
Condorcet
Journal Article Condorcet: Foundations of Social Choice and Political Theory. Get access Condorcet: Foundations of Social Choice and Political Theory, Translated and Edited by Mclean (Iain) and Hewitt (Fiona). (Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar, 1994. Pp. ix + 370. £59.95 hardback. ISBN 1 85898 068 2.) Robert Sugden Robert Sugden University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Econom…
England Does Not Love Coalitions
In mid-2011, it certainly looks as if England does not love coalitions, or at any rate the coalition that is governing it. The phrase was coined by Benjamin Disraeli in 1852. This article begins with the context in which Disraeli spoke, then gradually broadens its scope from England to the UK to the set of advanced democracies. Modern political economy has a great deal to say on the subject of coalitions. In conclusion we return to the prospects …
In Riker’s Footsteps
Three important books have recently been published in the long shadow of William H. Riker (1920–93). Norman Schofield declares himself a friend of Riker; Gerry Mackie, an enemy; Anthony McGann, a mere acquaintance. However, Riker’s legacy gives shape to all three. The main elements of the Riker programme are explained in this article, and then how far each book under review advances or undermines it is examined
Climate Change and UK Politics
In 2000 the UK Labour government abandoned annual real fuel duty increases ‐ a policy it had inherited from the preceding Conservative administration ‐ in the face of direct action by farmers and hauliers. A short‐term Conservative lead in the polls opened up. In 2006, the same Chancellor, Gordon Brown, announced an increase in air passenger duty from February 2007 in the light of the newly published Stern Review. The opposition parties denounced…
Duverger's Law, Penrose's Power Index and the Unity of the UK
As predicted by Duverger's Law, the UK has had two-party competition for long periods in most electoral districts. However, there are different patterns of two-party competition in different districts and more than two effective parties in the Commons. Since 1874, parliament has always contained parties wishing to modify the Union and contesting seats only outside England. By calculating the Penrose power index for all parties in the House of Com…
Scotland
Scottish devolution is an accomplished fact. It will not be reversed. Even the political agents who originally opposed it now benefit from its continuation. But will it remain unchanged? Is Scottish devolution a slippery slope towards independence, or a stable resting point? This article studies the interactive dynamics of devolution. Devolution allows policies to diverge in the self-governing parts of the UK. But it raises difficult financial an…
Political Culture in Contemporary Britain
The Rise and Fall of the Scottish National Party
The Scientific Status of Political Science’ — Two Comments
Mr Ake is not the first mechanical determinist to argue for the possibility of a political science analogous to natural science. He is aware that there are objections to this position, but he scarcely meets them
The Problem of Proportionate Swing
Devolution
The Politics of Nationalism and Devolution
Trade Unions in Politics
Journal Article TRADE UNIONS IN POLITICS: BOSSES OR DUPES? Get access Iain McLean Iain McLean Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume XXX, Issue 1, Winter 1977, Pages 122–124, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a054356 Published: 01 January 1977
Another Part of the Periphery
Journal Article ANOTHER PART OF THE PERIPHERY: REACTIONs TO DEVOLUTION IN AN ENGLISH DEVELOPMENT AREA Get access Roger Guthrie, Roger Guthrie Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Iain McLean Iain McLean Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume XXXI, Issue 2, Spring 1978, Pages 190–200, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a054253 Published: 01 M…
The New Corporatism? Still More on Trade Unions and Politics
Journal Article THE NEW CORPORATISM? STILL MORE ON TRADE UNIONS AND POLITICS Get access Iain McLean Iain McLean Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 32, Issue 1, 1979, Pages 109–112, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051764 Published: 01 January 1979
A Non-Zero-Sum Game of Football
A recent unusual event in the First Division of the English (Association) Football League provides an interesting example of how a game that is normally zero-sum can be converted into a non-zero-sum game. The political implications are, I hope, obvious. If politics consists of zero-sum games such as Diplomacy, Marx's conception of class conflict, or some non-Marxists' conceptions of ethnic, language, or boundary disputes, then no long-run co-oper…
The Social Contract in Leviathan and the Prisoner's Dilemma Supergame
The familiar problem of whether Hobbesian men in the state of nature would ever abide by an agreement to obey a Sovereign is a version of the puzzle now known as ‘Prisoner's Dilemma’. The present paper has the following aims: (1) To establish that the game-theory approach is a legitimate way to study Hobbes. (2) To see whether a proposed ‘solution’ to the paradox of Prisoner's Dilemma applies to this example. The paradox is that individually rati…
Tit-for-Tat’ and Ethical Computers
Supply-Side Shocks
A literature has developed recently to analyze the disruptive effects on small, open economies of a sudden change in the value of their natural resources. The paper looks to that literature to explain the effect on the Australian colonies of the discovery of substantial gold deposits in the 1850s. The price and quantity adjustments predicted by the model are found to be well supported by the historical experience with one important exception. Imm…
Dealing in Votes
The form of the book is of a series of essays in which the details and consequences of the unintended consequences are worked out for different topics. One of the most impressive of these is the critique originally published in French of John Rawls' famous book, A Theory of Justice. Boudon shows convincingly that the fundamental error of Rawls' whole approach is that it treats society in general as just a particularly large form of complex organi…
Red Clydeside
The Legend of Red Clydeside
The Legend of Red Clydeside
Good Blood, Bad Blood, and the Market
The Gift Relationship (Titmuss, 1970) argued that the UK system of voluntary blood donation was economically, medically, and morally superior to the American system, in which many blood suppliers are paid. The argument was badly put and fiercely attacked, but substantially correct. Developments since Titmuss wrote, especially AIDS, have tragically reinforced his main point: more than half of the severe haemophiliacs in the UK have been infected w…
Some Recent Work in Public Choice
The standing of the public choice approach to politics is ambiguous. Most people now accept that there is something in it, even if the ‘something’ is restricted to Arrow'sSocial Choice and Individual Values, Downs'sAn Economic Theory of Democracy, Olson'sThe Logic of Collective Action, and (perhaps) Riker'sThe Theory of Political Coalitions. The Logic, for instance, is a cult abbreviation propagated by Olson himself but accepted by others. Three …
Political Theory and Methodology
Gregory S. Kavka, Hobbesian Moral and Political Theory (Princeton, N. J., Princeton University Press, 1986) Patrick Riley, The General Will Before Rousseau: The Transformation of the Divine into the Civic (Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1986) Brian C. J. Singer, Society, Theory and the French Revolution: Studies in the Revolutionary Imaginary (London, Macmillan, 1986) Robert A. Gorman (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of Marxism (Londo…
Ships That Pass in the Night
Wealth, Poverty and Politics
Problems of majority voting An economic analysis of political choice Entry barriers in politics The general irrelevance of the general impossibility theorem Social cost and government action The social cost of reducing social cost Why so much stability? The short way with dissenters A simple algebraic logrolling model Income testing and dissenters: A theoretical model A partial rehabilitation of the public interest theory How to do well while doi…
The Politics of Corn Law Repeal
McKeown's excellent article (thisJournal, 19 (1989), 353–80) excavates a rich seam and shows that there is much more to be dug out. By voting for the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846, a substantial number of MPs palpably voted against their economic interest. Even though many of the switchers can be shown to be Peelite office-holders with a vested interest in staying in office (p. 378), they cannot be described simply as Virginian (Chicagoan) self…
Democracy and New Technology
Preface. Introduction. 1. What is Democracy? Some Traditional Answers. 2. Are Modern Western Societies Democratic? 3. New Technology and Democracy. 4. What New Technology can do for Direct Democracy. 5. What New Technology can do for Representative Democracy. 6. Conclusions. Appendix. Glossary of Technical Terms. Notes
A note on rose's proportionality index
Rational Choice and Politics
The rational-choice approach brings scientific deductive methods to bear on politics. Appropriate methods are derived from physics, when actors interact probabilistically but non-rationally, and from game theory when they interact rationally. Collective action problems occur in the provision of public goods. As policies are themselves public goods, this leads to the game-theoretic analysis of voting, bureaucracy and lobbies. It is inconsistent to…
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