David Richards
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3660055 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Richards |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Richards |
| ASSINATURA | RICHARDS D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6224-165X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 103 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 771 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 102 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1963 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Building place-based capacity in an asymmetric system
The inefficiency of centralised control and political short-termism
A paradox of the New Public Management reform – an influential school of thought in the management of public services in some countries – is that, despite its rhetoric of discretion for public managers, governments frequently reassert direct input controls at the expense of managerial freedoms to deliver – and be held accountable for – agreed output/outcome objectives. The existing literature explains this by highlighting elite incentive structur…
Professor Peter Haggett (1933-2025)
Short AbstractThis is an obituary of the geographer Peter Haggett (1933-2025), written by colleagues at the University of Bristol
Retributivism Gone Mad
Measure for Measure is ostensibly a comedy (no one dies, and the main penalties at the play’s end are, hilariously, requiring marriage), but it is a much darker comedy than any other Shakespeare wrote written after Hamlet, retaining features of that play’s moral nihilism. Its nihilism takes the form of a criticism of the claims of strong retributivism as a basis for criminal justice, namely, that it is necessary and sufficient for punishment that…
Hyper-active incrementalism’ and the Westminster system of governance
This article seeks to explain why spatial policy in England has been so ineffective in recent decades. It offers a novel framework – ‘Hyper-Active Incrementalism’ – to conceptualise the way that public policy in this area is prone to being short-term, under-evaluated, reactive, fragmented, incremental and top-down. It applies this framework to a historical survey of spatial policy, offering a nuanced understanding of the causes of these pathologi…
Crisis what crisis?’ Understanding the recurring problems of the British state
This article seeks to explain the current crises besetting the UK state, arguing their seeds can be traced back to past failures to reform Britain’s pre-modern state arrangements. We argue the perpetuation of a political cutlure organised round the highly centralising British Political Tradition has proved increasingly incompatible with a fragmented governance landscape driven by forty years of New Public Management informed reforms. We posit thi…
Change and Continuity in British Politics
In this article, the key dilemmas that will confront the new Labour administration in Britain during its initial period in power are examined. The Starmer government is seeking to use the state pragmatically to improve British economic performance, stem the crisis in public services and strengthen the strategic capacity of Whitehall. However, embryonic approach represents a melding of disparate ideas and traditions that have yet to cohere into a …
The challenge of devolved English governance and the rise of political spatial inequality
The UK is characterised by spatial inequality between and within regions, alongside an over-centralised asymmetric model of governance. In England especially, these features are stark, and throughout the last decade, politicians have responded by forging a distinctive programme of English devolution focused on city-regions. In this article, we analyse the core drivers of the English devolution agenda to understand its impact on the future traject…
The asymmetric power model 20 years on
It is over 20 years since the publication of the Asymmetric Power Model (APM). In the ensuing period, Britain has faced multiple challenges: the increasing fragmentation of public services; austerity politics; devolution; and, most recently, coronavirus disease and Brexit. It is this backdrop which provides the context to this article. First, it addresses how the literature has subsequently evolved. It then examines what has changed over the last…
Patriarchal Religion in U.S. Constitutional Law ( Dobbs v. Jackson )
Footnote1Abstract. The Supreme Court’s recent overruling of Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson reflects the influence of a group of conservative Catholic thinkers, the “new natural lawyers,”Footnote2 whose views, if made explicit, would be inconsistent with the constitutional requirement that basic rights can only be abridged on a secular basis. This inconsistency has been masked by an appeal to originalism, requiring that constitutional interpretat…
Levelling Up the UK
This article considers the levelling‐up agenda in the UK, examining the Johnson government's original proposals to tackle regional and local inequality and its continuation under new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak following the short‐lived premiership of Liz Truss. The 2022 Levelling Up in the United Kingdom White Paper is notable for the frank and wholesale critique it provides of previous governments’—both Tory and Labour—efforts to address the pre…
Crisis and state transformation
This article provides a novel account of recent UK governance reforms, describing what can be termed an ‘incoherent’ state, ill-equipped to address complex, multi-dimensional policy challenges. This is evidenced through two interrelated case-studies: Covid-19 and levelling up. We highlight how the tradition of strongly centralised government combined with an ad hoc approach to reform has undermined inter-governmental relations and limited the pos…
English Devolution and the Covid‐19 Pandemic
This article explores the question of devolution in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic's impact on English local government. Criticism of the government's handling of the crisis is widespread and tends to focus on the highly centralised nature of the British state. Here, we attribute the challenges faced by regional and local government in responding to the pandemic primarily to the asymmetric nature of power relations that characterise financial…
The Promise and Betrayal of Italian Revolutionary Constitutionalism
Revolutionary Constitutionalism
American Liberal Nationalism and the Italian Emigration
Multicultural Identity and Human Rights
Human Rights, Public Health, and the Idea of Moral Plague
It is a distinctive feature of Western ethics and law that the best standards of argument in both areas are cultivated by self-critical methodologies of historiography, empirical science, and ethical reflection. We insistently reflect on the history of our ethics and law, and think of such reflection as part of a larger process of cultural self-criticism through which we identify those strands of our tradition worth preserving and elaborating (fo…
How Queer Can Psychoanalysis Be? Reflections on the Encounter Between Analytic Practice and Queer Theorizing of Sexuality
This article offers responses to the book Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice & Queer theory. The author proposes that the book’s dialogic structure itself encourages a particular kind of lively engagement with the ideas, and observes his own experience of reading it and how this has contributed valuably to his stance in clinical work. Each of the book’s three sections is referenced, briefly reflecting on the themes of Queer…
The civil service’s gender diversity agenda under the coalition
This article examines the patterns of gender representation in the UK Civil Service to interrogate the claim that there was a regressive change in the proportion of women in the most senior grades of Whitehall under the UK Coalition Government (2010–2015). It does so by analysing both quantitative data covering civil service employment patterns during the Coalition years, complemented by new, primary qualitative data drawn from interviews conduct…
Westminster’s Brexit Paradox
The embedded nature of the British Political Tradition has created a series of pathologies about the way politics in Westminster is conducted. The endurance of the British Political Tradition emanates from its resilience to pressures for reform. Yet the rising anti-politics tide, the expression of which was vented in the 2016 European Union referendum, presents a critical challenge to the British Political Tradition. Given the political instabili…
O Movimento dos Pequenos Agricultores na interface entre agricultura familiar e educação do campo
The article in question is the result of research carried out by the Tutorial Education Program - PET Rural Education and Social Movements in UFRRJ - Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. It addresses the role of the MPA - Movement of Small Farmers, the interface between family farming and rural education. We work with the peasant plan, one of the main weapons of the MPA. It is a counterpoint to the state's incapacity to create laws to supp…
The Westminster Model and the “Indivisibility of the Political and Administrative Elite
This article argues that the principle of indivisibility in the relationship between political and administrative elites acted as a central convention of the Westminster system for much of the twentieth century. It explores how in more recent decades this principle has been challenged by the shift to a principal–agent approach. It considers the extent to which this shift diminishes the traditional Westminster model's understanding of the minister…
Labouring in the Shadow of the British Political Tradition
The British state is in flux and the Labour party is struggling to shape an effective response to the politics of disunification. This article reflects on the nature of Labour's governing project and its conception of modern statecraft which has evolved since the party became a serious contender for power in the aftermath of the First World War. We argue that Labour's initially pluralising instincts cultivated in opposition have been checked by t…
Italian American
When southern Italians began emigrating to the U.S. in large numbers in the 1870s-part of the "new immigration" from southern and eastern rather than northern Europe-they were seen as racially inferior, what David A. J. Richards terms "nonvisibly" black. The first study of its kind, Italian American explores the acculturation process of Italian immigrants in terms of then-current patterns of European and American racism. Delving into the politica…
Elite Interviewing
Interviews are one of the major tools in qualitative research, although there is a limited literature on the subject of interviewing generally and elite interviewing particularly. The aim of this article is to introduce some of the issues involved in elite interviewing to researchers new to the use of the technique. Emphasis is also placed on the need for the interviewer to know his/her subject thoroughly, and to be prepared to be flexible in an …
Unequal Plurality
Until recently, Rhodes's ‘Differentiate Polity Model’ (DPM) has been the most analytically-developed model of the British political system, but it is not without its problems. Here, we argue that the DPM over-stresses the diffuse nature of power in Britain and the extent to which the state has been hollowed out. Instead, we contend that the British political system is more closed and elitist than the DPM acknowledges; rather than being hollowed-o…
Managing Organisations in Africa
Die zentrale Bedeutung, die dem Aufbau leistungsfahiger im afrikanischen Entwicklungskontext zukommt, ist unbestritten. Internationale Entwicklungsagenturen sehen in der Starkung einheimischer Organisationskapazitaten einen Schlusselfaktor in der Bewaltigung der Entwicklungsprobleme des Kontinents. Vor diesem Hintergrund kann eine Veroffentlichung wie die von Blunt und Jones mit grosem Interesse rechnen. Dabei nehmen sich die Autoren vor, das vor…
Departmentalism and joined-up government
As part of its modernising approach to policy-making, the Blair government has emphasised the need for joined-up government. It is concerned to tackle 'wicked' issues which are not the responsibility of any other department. Departments and units have been urged to concentrate on delivering outcomes regardless of departmental boundaries. The authors show that this approach poses serious challenges to long-established Whitehall and ministerial pat…
Interpreting the World of Political Elites
This paper uses an interpretative approach to analyse the relationship between ministers and officials. It argues that generally, the relationship between ministers and civil servants is harmonious. This can be explained by the fact that both sets of actors tend to draw from the same tradition, the Westminster model. The Westminster model can be understood as the building block from which both ministers and civil servants develop narratives that …
The Tangled Webs of Westminster and Whitehall
In this paper we identify and seek to resolve a certain paradox in the existing litera‐ture on networks and networking. Whilst earlier policy network perspectives have tended to emphasize the structural character of networks as durable, dense and relatively static organization forms, the more recent strategic network literature emphasizes the flexible, adaptive and dynamic quality of networking as a social and political practice. However, neither…
Decentring Policy Networks
This introduction starts by specifying the theoretical and analytical framework underpinning the range of essays in this special issue. It then provides an overview of the existing literature on policy networks and network governance in order to identify what a decentred approach might contribute. What follows is an account of decentred theory, a discussion of the potential alternatives it can offer to existing accounts and how these might be ach…
The Westminster Model and the “Indivisibility of the Political and Administrative Elite
This article argues that the principle of indivisibility in the relationship between political and administrative elites acted as a central convention of the Westminster system for much of the twentieth century. It explores how in more recent decades this principle has been challenged by the shift to a principal–agent approach. It considers the extent to which this shift diminishes the traditional Westminster model's understanding of the minister…
Re‐assessing the Role of Departmental Cabinet Ministers
The study of the core executive has been dominated by discussion of the Prime Ministers and Cabinet with only limited serious treatment paid to ministers. However, ministers and departments are crucial actors in the core executive. This article examines the multiple roles and varying impacts of ministers. More particularly, we initially develop a classification of ministerial roles, which builds upon, but develops, work by Headey, James and Norto…
Devolution in England, the British Political Tradition and the Absence of Consultation, Consensus and Consideration
This article explores the nature of devolution unfolding in England following on from the September 2014 Scottish Referendum. It argues that the process of devolution can best be understood as one of elite co-option. Limited attention is being paid to the interest of citizens and the nature of the process to date reveals little evidence to suggest that the existing structures of power in the British political system are being challenged. These dy…
The public service ethos and the role of the British civil service
The last Conservative administration invested much time and effort in reforming the structure and organisation of the Civil Service. Yet it left untouched the core principles which underpinned Whitehall, often referred to as the public service ethos. In this article, we argue that this ethos has been defended by both conservative and liberal opinion as something fundamentally good. Yet, in reality, the public service ethos is a power/knowledge sy…
Why did they do it? Voting on Homosexuality and Capital Punishment in the House of Commons
Why did they do it? Voting on Homosexuality and Capital Punishment in the House of Commons Get access MELVYN READ, MELVYN READ Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DAVID MARSH, DAVID MARSH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DAVID RICHARDS DAVID RICHARDS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 47, Issue 3, July 1…
Bureaucrats, Politicians and Reform in Whitehall
Dunleavy's bureau-shaping model has breathed new life into existing debates about the behaviour of senior bureaucrats. This article assesses the utility of this model as an explanation of the development of Next Step agencies in the last decade in Britain, using data drawn from a series of extensive interviews with senior civil servants. Our conclusion is that, although the bureau-shaping model represents a significant advance on previous models …
Westminster’s Brexit Paradox
The embedded nature of the British Political Tradition has created a series of pathologies about the way politics in Westminster is conducted. The endurance of the British Political Tradition emanates from its resilience to pressures for reform. Yet the rising anti-politics tide, the expression of which was vented in the 2016 European Union referendum, presents a critical challenge to the British Political Tradition. Given the political instabili…
Labour In and Out of Government
This article is a commentary-style piece on the last Labour administration, reflecting on the relationship between ideas, actors, structures and events in shaping political practice. It is organised around two core but not mutually exclusive themes: the translation of ideas into political practice and the role of the British political tradition in shaping this process. The view offered within is that the British political tradition provides a use…
Central Government Departments and the Policy Process
Government departments are central organizations in the development of public policy. Yet there is very little literature on the political role of departments, their internal relationships and their relationships with other departments and other government actors and institutions. This article reviews the extant literature on government departments. It argues that much of the existing research has either focused on the role of the Prime Minister …
In Defence of British Politics Against the British Political Tradition
This article explores some of the current themes round the perceived crisis in British politics in supposed an age of ‘anti‐politics’. Drawing on Bernard Crick's In Defence of Politics , it offers a critique of what is referred to as a dominant British political tradition and in so doing seeks to challenge ‘demand‐side’ accounts that ostensibly defend the traditional arena politics of the Westminster system. Instead, it argues that developments a…
Decentring Policy Networks
This Conclusion reflects on the contributions the various articles in this special issue have made to decentred studies of policy networks. It concentrates on three areas: the role of meaning in action in shaping networks; new research agendas that have been potentially opened; and key theoretical debates. In considering the theoretical debates, this Conclusion considers various criticisms of the decentred approach to exploring policy networks, b…
Crisis and state transformation
This article provides a novel account of recent UK governance reforms, describing what can be termed an ‘incoherent’ state, ill-equipped to address complex, multi-dimensional policy challenges. This is evidenced through two interrelated case-studies: Covid-19 and levelling up. We highlight how the tradition of strongly centralised government combined with an ad hoc approach to reform has undermined inter-governmental relations and limited the pos…
Hyper-active incrementalism’ and the Westminster system of governance
This article seeks to explain why spatial policy in England has been so ineffective in recent decades. It offers a novel framework – ‘Hyper-Active Incrementalism’ – to conceptualise the way that public policy in this area is prone to being short-term, under-evaluated, reactive, fragmented, incremental and top-down. It applies this framework to a historical survey of spatial policy, offering a nuanced understanding of the causes of these pathologi…
English Devolution and the Covid‐19 Pandemic
This article explores the question of devolution in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic's impact on English local government. Criticism of the government's handling of the crisis is widespread and tends to focus on the highly centralised nature of the British state. Here, we attribute the challenges faced by regional and local government in responding to the pandemic primarily to the asymmetric nature of power relations that characterise financial…
Analysing Policy Delivery in the United Kingdom
For all governments, the principle of how and whether policies are implemented as intended is fundamental. The aim of this paper is to examine the difficulties for governments in delivering policy goals when they do not directly control the processes of implementation. This paper examines two case studies – anti-social behaviour and street crime – and demonstrates the difficulties faced by policy-makers in translating policy into practice when th…
Political Memoirs and New Labour
This article uses the Westminster Model to construct a framework for interpreting the nature of power relations presented in British political memoirs, one that emphasises the role of ‘historical impact’. It then argues that the model's ethos has a culture of honourable secrecy and club regulation which conditions the memoirs of politicians and civil servants in contrasting ways. The article examines the current batch of New Labour memoirs and ob…
Central control and policy implementation in the UK
The election of Tony Blair's Labour government in 1997 led to a significant increase of institutionalisation in the Prime Minister's Office, but the creation of the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit (PMDU) in 2001 has led to a degree of formal, direct control over policy implementation. This paper seeks to explain the development of this capability in the context of contradictory features of the British political system: the high level of prime mini…
Lowbury Hill, Oxon
Following earthwork, geophysical andfield-walking survey, a limited evaluation was carried out by excavation of the enclosure and Anglo-Saxon barrow on Lowbury Hill, Oxon. in 1992. Evidence for prehistoric activity on the hilltop is provided by a few sherds of beaker/collared urn, and a more substantial quantity of late bronze age/early iron age pottery. The combination of the new field evidence and a reappraisal of the excavation and finds made …
Zamyatin
Becoming a dentist
A Theory of Reasons for Action
Book Reviews Get access A Theory of Human Action. By Alvin I. Goldman. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall 1970. Pp. xii + 318. Price not given.) Les Holborow Les Holborow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 91, April 1973, Pages 182–184, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217500 Published: 01 April 1973
A Theory of Reasons for Action
Health Care and Popular Medicine in Nineteenth Century England
Health Care and Popular Medicine in Nineteenth-Century England
Health Care and Popular Medicine in Nineteenth-Century England
Health Care and Popular Medicine in Nineteenth Century England
Health Care and Popular Medicine in Nineteenth-Century England
America Conquers Britain
Shakespeare in the Theatre
Homosexual Acts and the Constitutional Right to Privacy
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Rights, Utility, and Crime
John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971) launched important jurisprudential rethinking of criminal law doctrine, policy, and practice. The opposing theories of Kant (natural rights) and Bentham (utilitarianism) are brought into new perspective by the human rights analysis flowing from Rawls's innovative theory. The traditional antagonism between the natural rights and utilitarian positions can no longer be sustained at least in its traditional for…
Terror and the Law
The subject of this inquiry is based upon Telford Taylor's last sentence: 'They, of all Germans, should have understood and valued justice. Indeed, there is no aspect of the Nazi terror more incomprehensible, nor more offensive to an American lawyer (such as Taylor or myself) than the complicity of lawyers in the terror. It is even more unimaginable in light of the fact that these lawyers were trained in a German academic legaf traditin, which ha…
Sex, Drugs, Death and the Law
Among the most commonly argued legal questions are those involving 'victimless' crimes consensual adult sexual relations (including homosexuality and prostitution), the use of drugs, and the right to die. How can they be distinguished from proper crimes, and how can we, as citizens, judge the complex moral and legal issues that such questions entail? David Richards, a teacher of law in the areas of constitutional and criminal law, and a moral and…
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The Voice of a Giant
Contributors, v Preface, ix I Pushkin: The Queen of Spades (1834) W.J. Leatherbarrow, 1 II Lermontov: A Hero of our Time (1840) D.J. Richards, 15 III Gogol: The Greatcoat (1842) R.A. Peace, 27 IV Turgenev: Fathers and Sons (1862) A.D.P. Briggs, 41 V Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground (1864) Malcolm V. Jones, 55 VI Tolstoy: War and Peace (1865-69) C.R.S. Cockrell and D.J. Richards, 67 VII Chekhov: The Lady with the Dog (1899) C.R.S. Cockrell, 81 R…
Moral rationality
Toleration and the Constitution
Journal Article Toleration and the Constitution. By David A. J. Richards. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. xvii + 348 pp. $29.95.) Get access G. Edward White G. Edward White School of Law, University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 1, June 1987, Pages 149–150, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908522 Published: 01 June 1987
Toleration and the Constitution
Making Law Bind
Foundations of American Constitutionalism
Journal Article Foundations of American Constitutionalism Get access Richards David A.J., Foundations of American Constitutionalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. xi, 315 pp.$32.50. Robert Jerome Glennon Robert Jerome Glennon University of Arizona, College of Law Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 35, Issue 1, January 1991, Pages 102–103, https://doi.org/10…
Managing Organisations in Africa
Die zentrale Bedeutung, die dem Aufbau leistungsfahiger im afrikanischen Entwicklungskontext zukommt, ist unbestritten. Internationale Entwicklungsagenturen sehen in der Starkung einheimischer Organisationskapazitaten einen Schlusselfaktor in der Bewaltigung der Entwicklungsprobleme des Kontinents. Vor diesem Hintergrund kann eine Veroffentlichung wie die von Blunt und Jones mit grosem Interesse rechnen. Dabei nehmen sich die Autoren vor, das vor…
Liberal Political Culture and the Marginalized Voice
Central Government Departments and the Policy Process
Government departments are central organizations in the development of public policy. Yet there is very little literature on the political role of departments, their internal relationships and their relationships with other departments and other government actors and institutions. This article reviews the extant literature on government departments. It argues that much of the existing research has either focused on the role of the Prime Minister …
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