R Barker
Biographic Data
| ID | 11664 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Barker |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Barker |
| SIGNATURE | BARKER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1625-6698 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 145 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
L aski, H arold
Harold Laski's account of pluralism attacked the claims of the national state and the theory of sovereignty, and asserted the personalities, rights, and functions of groups and associations both within and across the boundaries of the territorial state, rights, and functions that derived from those groups and associations, and were not derived from the state but were an empirical feature of pluralism in society and politics. His later work illust…
O akeshott, M ichael
Michael Oakeshott contrasted tradition with radicalism and utopia, habit with rationalism, the rule of law with mission driven states and collectivism, and freedom with collectivism. His work supported an opposition to radical or visionary government and politics, and a disposition in favor of existing distributions of social, economic, and political status and advantage, but only if that were consistent with limited government, in response to th…
From New Jerusalem to New Labour: British Prime Ministers from Attlee to Blair – Edited by Vernon Bogdanor
House of Lords Reform Since 1911: Must the Lords Go? – Edited by Peter Dorey and Alexandra Kelso
Going to War: British Debates from Wilberforce to Blair – By Philip Towle
After Number 10: Former Prime Ministers in British Politics – By Kevin Theakston
The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron – By Tim Bale
Big Societies, Little Platoons and the Problems with Pluralism
Conservative talk of a ‘big society’ is one more mutation of the unstable family of pluralism. It is a large family, with both benign and progressive left wing members and rogue right wing black sheep. The progressive contribution has been substantial, but pluralism is not a homogeneous ideology or set of policies, and the single word conceals stresses and irreconcilable oppositions in theory and practice. An examination of this variety gives clu…
Reinventing Britain: Constitutional Change under New Labour - Edited by Andrew McDonald
Choosing the Tory Leader: Conservative Party Leadership Elections from Heath to Cameron – By Timothy Heppell
The pluralism of British pluralism
Despite the international character of political ideologies, an historically distinct British pluralism can be identified. But it is characterized by a tension inherent in all pluralism, between groups as sources of individual identity, and individuals as components of groups. That is not a cause for concern, since the tensions within political thinking are the source of its dynamism
Labour's Thinkers: The Intellectual Roots of Labour from Tawney to Gordon Brown – By Matt Beech and Kevin Hickson
The British General Election of 2005 – By Dennis Kavanagh and David Butler Britain Decides: The UK General Election 2005 – Edited by Andrew Geddes and Jonathan Tonge
On Stefan Collini: Absent Minds
Enemies of the People
‘The people’ has always been an ambiguous title. Even the emblazoned SPQR comes in at least two versions, as ‘Senatus Populusque Romanus’ or ‘Senatus Populusque Romae’, in the first version making the people the Roman people, in the second, the people of Rome, a slightly more subordinate appellation. And even though the people are there on the standards of the legions, they do not by themselves compose the polity. There is the senate as well, so …
Democratic Legitimation: What Is It, Who Wants It, and Why?
The answers to the questions in the title of this chapter are that democratic legitimation, like a democratic polity, is many things linked by a common phrase, that different people want these different things for many different reasons and with many different expectations, and that it is both easier and more difficult than is often thought to know when their expectations have been realized.1 So before anything else, some definitions are called f…
Making Enemies
Liberal Languages: Ideological Imaginations and Twentieth-Century Progressive Thought
Legitimating Identities: The Self-Presentations of Rulers and Subjects
Rulers of all kinds, from feudal monarchs to democratic presidents and prime ministers, justify themselves to themselves through a variety of rituals, rhetoric, and dramatisations, using everything from architecture and coinage to etiquette and portraiture. This kind of legitimation - self-legitimation - has been overlooked in an age which is concerned principally with how government can be justified in the eyes of its citizens. In this 2001 book…
Hooks and Hands, Interests and Enemies: Political Thinking as Political Action
The long millennium, the short century, and the persistence of legitimation
Political ideas since 1945, or how long was the twentieth century
1945 is given too much importance as a turning point in the history of political thinking. Most of the changes which occurred at and after the end of the Second World War were intensifications of existing conceptions and aspirations, rather than new departures. By the 1990s, in contrast, a new intellectual century, however uncertain its features, had begun. Socialism and conservatism were dead, and in their place was a division between left and r…
The Return of the Political
Why are there no more socialists or conservatives
David Miliband (ed), Reinventing the Left, (Polity, Cambridge 1994). x. + 254 pp. ISBN 0–7456–1390–8 (pb
Associate Democracy: New Forms of Economic and Social Governance
Political Legitimacy and the State
All governments and their supporters attempt to justify their power by the arguments and rituals of legitimacy. In this book Rodney Barker, examines the accounts that have been given of legitimacy within the principal traditions of political analysis.
Legitimating Identities: The Self-Presentations of Rulers and Subjects
Rulers of all kinds, from feudal monarchs to democratic presidents and prime ministers, justify themselves to themselves through a variety of rituals, rhetoric, and dramatisations, using everything from architecture and coinage to etiquette and portraiture. This kind of legitimation - self-legitimation - has been overlooked in an age which is concerned principally with how government can be justified in the eyes of its citizens. In this 2001 book…
Hooks and Hands, Interests and Enemies: Political Thinking as Political Action
Legitimacy in the United Kingdom: Scotland and the Poll Tax
The community charge has been described as the flagship of Thatcherism. It was also the issue which, together with Europe, brought the Prime Minister's voyage to an end and set her adrift as a political Captain Bligh whilst her parliamentary and cabinet crew sailed on without her. But though the prospect of English electoral disaster was the most immediate and obvious political effect of the new tax, its introduction a year earlier in Scotland ha…
The Return of the Political
Big Societies, Little Platoons and the Problems with Pluralism
Conservative talk of a ‘big society’ is one more mutation of the unstable family of pluralism. It is a large family, with both benign and progressive left wing members and rogue right wing black sheep. The progressive contribution has been substantial, but pluralism is not a homogeneous ideology or set of policies, and the single word conceals stresses and irreconcilable oppositions in theory and practice. An examination of this variety gives clu…
The pluralism of British pluralism
Despite the international character of political ideologies, an historically distinct British pluralism can be identified. But it is characterized by a tension inherent in all pluralism, between groups as sources of individual identity, and individuals as components of groups. That is not a cause for concern, since the tensions within political thinking are the source of its dynamism
On Stefan Collini: Absent Minds
The Politics and Political Ideas of Moisei Ostrogorski
Legitimacy: The Identity of the Accused
Political Myth: Ramsay Macdonald and the Labour Party
The long millennium, the short century, and the persistence of legitimation
Political ideas since 1945, or how long was the twentieth century
1945 is given too much importance as a turning point in the history of political thinking. Most of the changes which occurred at and after the end of the Second World War were intensifications of existing conceptions and aspirations, rather than new departures. By the 1990s, in contrast, a new intellectual century, however uncertain its features, had begun. Socialism and conservatism were dead, and in their place was a division between left and r…
Why are there no more socialists or conservatives
David Miliband (ed), Reinventing the Left, (Polity, Cambridge 1994). x. + 254 pp. ISBN 0–7456–1390–8 (pb
Associate Democracy: New Forms of Economic and Social Governance
Civil Disobedience as Persuasion: Dworkin and Greenham Common
Protests against nuclear weapons which involve conflict with the law have been criticized as ‘blackmail’ or obstruction by Ronald Dworkin and hence not as an acceptable form of civil disobedience. This is to misunderstand both their nature and that of civil disobedience. Such protests are an example of a particular kind of persuasive civil disobedience which cannot be disallowed without disallowing civil disobedience itself
Guild Socialism Revisited
High Politics and Low Cunning
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The Labour Party and Education for Socialism
No socialist since Robert Owen has had any excuse for being unaware of the relationship between educational reform and social and political change, and a perception of this relationship was a feature of nineteenth century socialism and liberalism. The attention which the educational principles and policies of socialist, labour, and radical movements in Europe have recently received has thus been well deserved. The socialists have however come off…
Books reviewed
The First Emancipation, The Abolition of Slavery in the North. By Arthur Zilversmit. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago and London. 1967. $6.95. The Secret City: A History of Race Relations in the Nation's Capital. By Constance McLaughlin Green. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1967. 389 pp. $8.50. Railroad Labor Disputes. The Beginnings of Federal Strike Policy. By Gerald G. Eggert. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 1967. 313 …
The Labour Party and Education for Socialism
No socialist since Robert Owen has had any excuse for being unaware of the relationship between educational reform and social and political change, and a perception of this relationship was a feature of nineteenth century socialism and liberalism. The attention which the educational principles and policies of socialist, labour, and radical movements in Europe have recently received has thus been well deserved. The socialists have however come off…
Parliamentary Reformers
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Education and Politics 1900-51: A Study of the Labour Party
High Politics and Low Cunning
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Guild Socialism Revisited
Education and English Politics
The Politics and Political Ideas of Moisei Ostrogorski
Political Myth: Ramsay Macdonald and the Labour Party
Taking Uncivil Liberties with Sexuality
A Handbook on the Methodology for an Integrated Experiment-Survey on Rice Yield Constraints
Political Legitimacy and the State
All governments and their supporters attempt to justify their power by the arguments and rituals of legitimacy. In this book Rodney Barker, examines the accounts that have been given of legitimacy within the principal traditions of political analysis.
Civil Disobedience as Persuasion: Dworkin and Greenham Common
Protests against nuclear weapons which involve conflict with the law have been criticized as ‘blackmail’ or obstruction by Ronald Dworkin and hence not as an acceptable form of civil disobedience. This is to misunderstand both their nature and that of civil disobedience. Such protests are an example of a particular kind of persuasive civil disobedience which cannot be disallowed without disallowing civil disobedience itself
Legitimacy in the United Kingdom: Scotland and the Poll Tax
The community charge has been described as the flagship of Thatcherism. It was also the issue which, together with Europe, brought the Prime Minister's voyage to an end and set her adrift as a political Captain Bligh whilst her parliamentary and cabinet crew sailed on without her. But though the prospect of English electoral disaster was the most immediate and obvious political effect of the new tax, its introduction a year earlier in Scotland ha…
Aneurin Bevan on the National Health Service (Book)
Historical saturated thickness of the Edwards-Trinity aquifer system and selected contiguous hydraulically connected units, west-central Texas
The Edwards-Trinity Regional Aquifer-System Analysis (RASA) is one of 25 completed or ongoing studies conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey on regional aquifer systems that individually provide essential quantities of ground water to large parts of the country. Underlying about 42,000 mi2 of west-central Texas, the Edwards-Trinity aquifer system extends approximately from Atascosa County in the southeast to Culberson County in the northwest and…
The Legitimation of Power
Legitimacy: The Identity of the Accused
Why are there no more socialists or conservatives
David Miliband (ed), Reinventing the Left, (Polity, Cambridge 1994). x. + 254 pp. ISBN 0–7456–1390–8 (pb
Associate Democracy: New Forms of Economic and Social Governance
Whose legitimacy? Elites, nationalism and ethnicity in the United Kingdom
The most powerful form of legitimation in the contemporary world is nationalism. A widespread assumption, in describing nationalism both within the United Kingdom and in the world as a whole, has been that nationalism is a movement of peoples against states. But there are good initial reasons to be sceptical of the national or ethnic claim to speak for a community of equals. As a form of legitimacy, nationalism familiarly presents the leader, reg…
Political ideas since 1945, or how long was the twentieth century
1945 is given too much importance as a turning point in the history of political thinking. Most of the changes which occurred at and after the end of the Second World War were intensifications of existing conceptions and aspirations, rather than new departures. By the 1990s, in contrast, a new intellectual century, however uncertain its features, had begun. Socialism and conservatism were dead, and in their place was a division between left and r…
The Return of the Political
Hooks and Hands, Interests and Enemies: Political Thinking as Political Action
The long millennium, the short century, and the persistence of legitimation
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