Shamit Saggar
Biographic Data
| ID | 144845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shamit Saggar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shamit |
| FAMILY NAME | Saggar |
| SIGNATURE | SAGGAR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7151-9617 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Race and representation: Electoral politics and ethnic pluralism in Britain
Studies have been devoted to important methodological and conceptual matters to do with how, and how not, to study minority political participation. This continues to be a vexed question despite almost three decades of national surveys on the topic, and this book addresses these points by outlining the rationale for its own development of survey and measurement techniques and the evidence produced therein. One recurring theme has been the relatio…
Just three Skittles in a bowl will kill you. Would you take a handful?’ Evidence, public policy and Islamist-inspired violent extremism
Saggar’s article is concerned with the use of evidence by the UK policy community to tackle Islamist-inspired terrorism. It focuses on how evidence for such terrorism is generated, interpreted and organized, in particular pinpointing the challenges of reliability and prediction facing those with responsibility for tackling terrorism and its associated causes. Counter-terrorism policy is heavily exposed to risks of bias and distortion, but it is a…
Bending without breaking the mould: Race and political representation in the United Kingdom
Saggar draws together research evidence and practitioner insights to evaluate and interpret change in race and political representation in Britain. The starting point is to ask: how far have British democratic institutions been responsive to the emergence of an ethnically diverse society? There have been significant impacts of such diversity on attitudinal change, demographic and electoral composition and political participation. Saggar's article…
Boomerangs and Slingshots: Radical Islamism and Counter-Terrorism Strategy
This essay is concerned with the moral oxygen for Islamist-inspired terrorism in Western countries, i.e. those supplying, often without knowing, the tacit support for both violence and the legitimacy of direct action in support of shared goals. The kinds of intervention needed to tackle terror plots directly will be distinctive and differ from those needed to address the problem of those who ‘look the other way’. But the effects of one kind of po…
Pariah Politics: Understanding Western Radical Islamism and What Should be Done
Pariah Politics breaks new ground in examining the issue of western Islamist extremism from the perspective of government. It links underlying causes to the capacity of governments to respond directly and to influence others. The book contains four main messages. Focusing on causes, not symptoms. The book identifies four big causal drivers: settled disadvantage, social isolation, grievance and oppositional cultures, and the volatile dynamics of g…
Regulation, Equality and the Public Interest
Pariah politics: Understanding Western Islamist extremism and what should be done
The One Per Cent World: Managing the Myth of Muslim Religious Extremism
Immigration and the Politics of Public Opinion
The political incorporation of South Asian elites in Britain
The Race Card, Again
Negative and positive racialisation: Re-examining ethnic minority political representation in the UK
In the 1997 British General Election the race issue appeared to count for little or nothing in constituency battles beyond those 44 seats in which an ethnic minority candidate was fielded. Almost all these constituencies contained sizeable ethnic minority electorates. The exception, whilst interesting and a powerful alternative to the framework discussed in this article, is just that: an exception to an underlying and far-reaching pattern in the …
Smoking guns and magic bullets: The ‘race card’ debate revisited in 1997
The notion that anti‐immigrant and racist voting sentiment underscore mass electoral behaviour has been a familiar aspect of the British political landscape for more than a generation. Although debates persist on the scale and significance of such sentiment, many commentators have agreed that this has been an important influence and effect upon Labour and Conservative electoral strategy for 30 years or more. Indeed, attention has often focused up…
A Late, Though Not Lost, Opportunity: Ethnic Minority Electors, Party Strategy and the Conservative Party
Elites britanniques d'origine indo-pakistanaise et participation politique: Un Test De l'Hypothèse Culturelle
British South Asian Elites and Political Participation : Testing the Cultural Thesis. Shamit Saggar. The article examines the arguments and evidence surrounding the debate over the political importance of ethnic minorities in the British political System and focuses especially on the political participation of the Britain's 1.5 million South Asians. Drawing on fresh and original evidence provided by the 1997 British Election study, the article de…
Racial Politics
Journal Article Racial Politics Get access SHAMIT SAGGAR SHAMIT SAGGAR *Senior Lecturer in Government at Queen Mary and Westfield College University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 50, Issue 4, October 1997, Pages 693–707, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028765 Published: 01 October 1997
The politics of 'race policy' in Britain
This paper explores the ways in which the local politics of race have been shaped by national concerns and priorities. It argues that the centre-periphery relationship has been a central theme of the liberal settlement that underpins the British tradition of 'race policy'. The settlement offered to remove race from national political debate and relegate it to the supposedly non-political world of local politics. How ever, it was at the local leve…
Books
Shammit Saggar, Race and Politics in Britain, Hemel Hempstead: Prentice‐Hall, 1992, 236 pp., £9.95 p.b. Alexander DeConde, Ethnicity, Race, and American Foreign Policy: A History, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992, 270 pp., n.p., cloth Caroline Knowles, Race, Discourse and Labourism, London: Routledge, 1992, 206 pp., £40.00 h.b. Steven Fielding, Class and Ethnicity: Irish Catholics in England, 1880–1939, Buckingham: Open University Pres…
Can political parties play the race card in general elections? The 1992 poll revisited
(1993). Can political parties play the race card in general elections? The 1992 poll revisited. New Community: Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 693-699
Black participation and the transformation of the 'race issue' in British politics
Following Enoch Powell's prediction in 1968 that a national calamity would follow in the wake of immigration from the Caribbean and from the Sub‐Continent, ‘race’ became an issue of major significance, with 43 per cent of the population supporting forced repatriation by 1974. Less than a decade later barely one per cent of the electorate considered immigration to be one of the two most important issues facing the country. Rather than public opini…
Courting The Ethnic Vote in British Politics1
1992). Courting The Ethnic Vote in British Politics. Representation: Vol. 31, No. 114, pp. 29-33
The Changing Agenda of Race Issues in Local Government: The Case of a London Borough
The paper argues that race issues in local government are not composed of a single uniform agenda. Instead, the agenda varies between locality and over time. These agendas are the product of the interaction between the level of organizational coherence and the degree of racial explicitness of local politics and policy-making. The case of Ealing Borough demonstrates the extent to which the language and substance of race policy debate – the agenda …
Discovering and Rediscovering Race
DISCOVERING AND REDISCOVERING RACE Get access Shamit Saggar Shamit Saggar Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 43, Issue 3, July 1990, Pages 392–395, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052263 Published: 01 July 1990
The 1984 labour Force Survey and Britain's ‘Asian’ population
The 1983 labour force survey and Britain's ‘Asian’ population: A research note
(1985). The 1983 labour force survey and Britain's ‘Asian’ population: A research note. New Community: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 418-429
Negative and positive racialisation: Re-examining ethnic minority political representation in the UK
In the 1997 British General Election the race issue appeared to count for little or nothing in constituency battles beyond those 44 seats in which an ethnic minority candidate was fielded. Almost all these constituencies contained sizeable ethnic minority electorates. The exception, whilst interesting and a powerful alternative to the framework discussed in this article, is just that: an exception to an underlying and far-reaching pattern in the …
Immigration and the Politics of Public Opinion
A Late, Though Not Lost, Opportunity: Ethnic Minority Electors, Party Strategy and the Conservative Party
Boomerangs and Slingshots: Radical Islamism and Counter-Terrorism Strategy
This essay is concerned with the moral oxygen for Islamist-inspired terrorism in Western countries, i.e. those supplying, often without knowing, the tacit support for both violence and the legitimacy of direct action in support of shared goals. The kinds of intervention needed to tackle terror plots directly will be distinctive and differ from those needed to address the problem of those who ‘look the other way’. But the effects of one kind of po…
The One Per Cent World: Managing the Myth of Muslim Religious Extremism
The Race Card, Again
Bending without breaking the mould: Race and political representation in the United Kingdom
Saggar draws together research evidence and practitioner insights to evaluate and interpret change in race and political representation in Britain. The starting point is to ask: how far have British democratic institutions been responsive to the emergence of an ethnically diverse society? There have been significant impacts of such diversity on attitudinal change, demographic and electoral composition and political participation. Saggar's article…
Racial Politics
Journal Article Racial Politics Get access SHAMIT SAGGAR SHAMIT SAGGAR *Senior Lecturer in Government at Queen Mary and Westfield College University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 50, Issue 4, October 1997, Pages 693–707, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028765 Published: 01 October 1997
The 1983 labour force survey and Britain's ‘Asian’ population: A research note
(1985). The 1983 labour force survey and Britain's ‘Asian’ population: A research note. New Community: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 418-429
Elites britanniques d'origine indo-pakistanaise et participation politique: Un Test De l'Hypothèse Culturelle
British South Asian Elites and Political Participation : Testing the Cultural Thesis. Shamit Saggar. The article examines the arguments and evidence surrounding the debate over the political importance of ethnic minorities in the British political System and focuses especially on the political participation of the Britain's 1.5 million South Asians. Drawing on fresh and original evidence provided by the 1997 British Election study, the article de…
Courting The Ethnic Vote in British Politics1
1992). Courting The Ethnic Vote in British Politics. Representation: Vol. 31, No. 114, pp. 29-33
The Changing Agenda of Race Issues in Local Government: The Case of a London Borough
The paper argues that race issues in local government are not composed of a single uniform agenda. Instead, the agenda varies between locality and over time. These agendas are the product of the interaction between the level of organizational coherence and the degree of racial explicitness of local politics and policy-making. The case of Ealing Borough demonstrates the extent to which the language and substance of race policy debate – the agenda …
Smoking guns and magic bullets: The ‘race card’ debate revisited in 1997
The notion that anti‐immigrant and racist voting sentiment underscore mass electoral behaviour has been a familiar aspect of the British political landscape for more than a generation. Although debates persist on the scale and significance of such sentiment, many commentators have agreed that this has been an important influence and effect upon Labour and Conservative electoral strategy for 30 years or more. Indeed, attention has often focused up…
Can political parties play the race card in general elections? The 1992 poll revisited
(1993). Can political parties play the race card in general elections? The 1992 poll revisited. New Community: Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 693-699
The 1984 labour Force Survey and Britain's ‘Asian’ population
The 1983 labour force survey and Britain's ‘Asian’ population: A research note
(1985). The 1983 labour force survey and Britain's ‘Asian’ population: A research note. New Community: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 418-429
The 1984 labour Force Survey and Britain's ‘Asian’ population
Discovering and Rediscovering Race
DISCOVERING AND REDISCOVERING RACE Get access Shamit Saggar Shamit Saggar Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 43, Issue 3, July 1990, Pages 392–395, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052263 Published: 01 July 1990
The Changing Agenda of Race Issues in Local Government: The Case of a London Borough
The paper argues that race issues in local government are not composed of a single uniform agenda. Instead, the agenda varies between locality and over time. These agendas are the product of the interaction between the level of organizational coherence and the degree of racial explicitness of local politics and policy-making. The case of Ealing Borough demonstrates the extent to which the language and substance of race policy debate – the agenda …
Courting The Ethnic Vote in British Politics1
1992). Courting The Ethnic Vote in British Politics. Representation: Vol. 31, No. 114, pp. 29-33
The politics of 'race policy' in Britain
This paper explores the ways in which the local politics of race have been shaped by national concerns and priorities. It argues that the centre-periphery relationship has been a central theme of the liberal settlement that underpins the British tradition of 'race policy'. The settlement offered to remove race from national political debate and relegate it to the supposedly non-political world of local politics. How ever, it was at the local leve…
Books
Shammit Saggar, Race and Politics in Britain, Hemel Hempstead: Prentice‐Hall, 1992, 236 pp., £9.95 p.b. Alexander DeConde, Ethnicity, Race, and American Foreign Policy: A History, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992, 270 pp., n.p., cloth Caroline Knowles, Race, Discourse and Labourism, London: Routledge, 1992, 206 pp., £40.00 h.b. Steven Fielding, Class and Ethnicity: Irish Catholics in England, 1880–1939, Buckingham: Open University Pres…
Can political parties play the race card in general elections? The 1992 poll revisited
(1993). Can political parties play the race card in general elections? The 1992 poll revisited. New Community: Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 693-699
Black participation and the transformation of the 'race issue' in British politics
Following Enoch Powell's prediction in 1968 that a national calamity would follow in the wake of immigration from the Caribbean and from the Sub‐Continent, ‘race’ became an issue of major significance, with 43 per cent of the population supporting forced repatriation by 1974. Less than a decade later barely one per cent of the electorate considered immigration to be one of the two most important issues facing the country. Rather than public opini…
Racial Politics
Journal Article Racial Politics Get access SHAMIT SAGGAR SHAMIT SAGGAR *Senior Lecturer in Government at Queen Mary and Westfield College University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 50, Issue 4, October 1997, Pages 693–707, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028765 Published: 01 October 1997
Smoking guns and magic bullets: The ‘race card’ debate revisited in 1997
The notion that anti‐immigrant and racist voting sentiment underscore mass electoral behaviour has been a familiar aspect of the British political landscape for more than a generation. Although debates persist on the scale and significance of such sentiment, many commentators have agreed that this has been an important influence and effect upon Labour and Conservative electoral strategy for 30 years or more. Indeed, attention has often focused up…
A Late, Though Not Lost, Opportunity: Ethnic Minority Electors, Party Strategy and the Conservative Party
Elites britanniques d'origine indo-pakistanaise et participation politique: Un Test De l'Hypothèse Culturelle
British South Asian Elites and Political Participation : Testing the Cultural Thesis. Shamit Saggar. The article examines the arguments and evidence surrounding the debate over the political importance of ethnic minorities in the British political System and focuses especially on the political participation of the Britain's 1.5 million South Asians. Drawing on fresh and original evidence provided by the 1997 British Election study, the article de…
Negative and positive racialisation: Re-examining ethnic minority political representation in the UK
In the 1997 British General Election the race issue appeared to count for little or nothing in constituency battles beyond those 44 seats in which an ethnic minority candidate was fielded. Almost all these constituencies contained sizeable ethnic minority electorates. The exception, whilst interesting and a powerful alternative to the framework discussed in this article, is just that: an exception to an underlying and far-reaching pattern in the …
The political incorporation of South Asian elites in Britain
The Race Card, Again
Immigration and the Politics of Public Opinion
The One Per Cent World: Managing the Myth of Muslim Religious Extremism
Pariah Politics: Understanding Western Radical Islamism and What Should be Done
Pariah Politics breaks new ground in examining the issue of western Islamist extremism from the perspective of government. It links underlying causes to the capacity of governments to respond directly and to influence others. The book contains four main messages. Focusing on causes, not symptoms. The book identifies four big causal drivers: settled disadvantage, social isolation, grievance and oppositional cultures, and the volatile dynamics of g…
Regulation, Equality and the Public Interest
Pariah politics: Understanding Western Islamist extremism and what should be done
Boomerangs and Slingshots: Radical Islamism and Counter-Terrorism Strategy
This essay is concerned with the moral oxygen for Islamist-inspired terrorism in Western countries, i.e. those supplying, often without knowing, the tacit support for both violence and the legitimacy of direct action in support of shared goals. The kinds of intervention needed to tackle terror plots directly will be distinctive and differ from those needed to address the problem of those who ‘look the other way’. But the effects of one kind of po…
Bending without breaking the mould: Race and political representation in the United Kingdom
Saggar draws together research evidence and practitioner insights to evaluate and interpret change in race and political representation in Britain. The starting point is to ask: how far have British democratic institutions been responsive to the emergence of an ethnically diverse society? There have been significant impacts of such diversity on attitudinal change, demographic and electoral composition and political participation. Saggar's article…
Just three Skittles in a bowl will kill you. Would you take a handful?’ Evidence, public policy and Islamist-inspired violent extremism
Saggar’s article is concerned with the use of evidence by the UK policy community to tackle Islamist-inspired terrorism. It focuses on how evidence for such terrorism is generated, interpreted and organized, in particular pinpointing the challenges of reliability and prediction facing those with responsibility for tackling terrorism and its associated causes. Counter-terrorism policy is heavily exposed to risks of bias and distortion, but it is a…
Race and representation: Electoral politics and ethnic pluralism in Britain
Studies have been devoted to important methodological and conceptual matters to do with how, and how not, to study minority political participation. This continues to be a vexed question despite almost three decades of national surveys on the topic, and this book addresses these points by outlining the rationale for its own development of survey and measurement techniques and the evidence produced therein. One recurring theme has been the relatio…
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