Jim Buller
Biographic Data
| ID | 4128693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jim Buller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jim |
| FAMILY NAME | Buller |
| SIGNATURE | BULLER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 222 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Inter-Organisational Distrust and the Political Economy of Central Bank Independence in the UK
This article revisits a puzzle: why did the Conservative Governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major not grant independence to the Bank of England? A substantial literature offers several explanations for why New Labour carried out this reform to UK monetary policy, many of which ought to have been relevant to the Conservatives’ stewardship of the economy in the 1980s and 1990s. So why did the Conservatives fail to see the advantages of a pol…
State spatiality in an era of global and regional interdependence
Since the 1990s, political science has been criticised for its inability to adequately theorise the role and nature of the state in an era of global interdependence. In particular, the discipline is said to have fallen into a ‘territorial trap’. It is founded on a territorial conception of space that both reifies and limits debate about the state to whether it is ‘obsolete’ or ‘obstinate’ in a world where power is increasingly located in transnat…
The importance of being autonomous
Hedging its Bets
Some argue that European financial services regulation is witnessing a shift from a ‘market-making’ to a ‘market-shaping’ paradigm after the global financial crisis. This so-called ‘new’ political economy explanation stresses the role of ideas to understand this change. We consider this claim by providing an in-depth examination of recent European hedge fund legislation from the perspective of two key ‘market-making’ coalition members: the UK gov…
Statecraft and the Assessment of National Political Leaders
This article makes the case for employing the statecraft approach (associated with the late Jim Bulpitt) to assess political leadership in Britain. Rather than ‘importing’ methodologies from the US, as some scholars have done, statecraft is preferred in the UK context for two main reasons. First, statecraft is concerned with the motives and behaviour of leadership cliques, and as a result, it is more appropriate for the collective leadership styl…
Depoliticisation
Depoliticisation
In outlining the depoliticisation framework, Peter Burnham (2001) has made a major contribution to a neglected subject in the study of British politics. Characteristically, Burnham’s (2006) response to our article (Buller and Flinders 2005) contains a number of perceptive observations that in our view serve to advance further the debate on depoliticisation. Among other things, he suggests that rather than conceptualising the post-war development …
Contesting Europeanisation
This article investigates how Europeanisation can sometimes generate controversy at the domestic level by exploring British policy towards ERM in the 1980s and 1990s. It argues that existing approaches which point to the occurrence of ‘misfit’ between domestic and European institutions/policies only go part of the way to explaining the contentious nature of this process. Europeanisation was disputed in this instance because it produced competing …
The Domestic Origins of Depoliticisation in the Area of British Economic Policy
This article seeks to build on Peter Burnham's analysis of New Labour's depoliticisation statecraft as set out in an earlier volume of this journal. While Burnham provides a convincing account of how this new governing strategy differed from earlier ‘politicised’ methods of governance, we know less about why such change took place. Burnham makes a start by suggesting that developments in the international financial system go some way to explainin…
The Europeanization of National Politics
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Understanding the Europeanisation of Public Policy
Conceptualising Europeanisation
This article subjects the existing literature on the concept of Europeanisation to critical scrutiny. It begins by providing a general discussion of the methodology of concept formation. It then goes on to assess five current usages of the tern Europeanisation, before providing an alternative definition. The main argument pursued here is that academics have been too quick to conceptualise Europeanisation as a process which is capable of producing…
Understanding Contemporary Conservative Euro‐Scepticism
A Critical Appraisal of the Statecraft Interpretation
This article subjects the Statecraft interpretation to critical assessment. It argues that, while Bulpitt has provided a parsimonious and stimulating contribution to our understanding of British politics, his work needs to be developed. More specifically, although the Statecraft thesis evolved out of Bulpitt’s concerns with the methodology of political science, a neglect of ontological and epistemological questions has led it to propound explanat…
Britain as an Awkward Partner
This article attempts to do two things. It begins by asserting that there is something that can be called the Awkward Partner thesis, and that this is the dominant academic interpretation of Britain's relations with the European Union. The article then goes on to critically assess this thesis. Particular attention is paid to the concept of awkwardness, and an attempt is made to question its usefulness and validity. The article then goes on to que…
Depoliticisation
Statecraft and the Assessment of National Political Leaders
This article makes the case for employing the statecraft approach (associated with the late Jim Bulpitt) to assess political leadership in Britain. Rather than ‘importing’ methodologies from the US, as some scholars have done, statecraft is preferred in the UK context for two main reasons. First, statecraft is concerned with the motives and behaviour of leadership cliques, and as a result, it is more appropriate for the collective leadership styl…
The Domestic Origins of Depoliticisation in the Area of British Economic Policy
This article seeks to build on Peter Burnham's analysis of New Labour's depoliticisation statecraft as set out in an earlier volume of this journal. While Burnham provides a convincing account of how this new governing strategy differed from earlier ‘politicised’ methods of governance, we know less about why such change took place. Burnham makes a start by suggesting that developments in the international financial system go some way to explainin…
Conceptualising Europeanisation
This article subjects the existing literature on the concept of Europeanisation to critical scrutiny. It begins by providing a general discussion of the methodology of concept formation. It then goes on to assess five current usages of the tern Europeanisation, before providing an alternative definition. The main argument pursued here is that academics have been too quick to conceptualise Europeanisation as a process which is capable of producing…
A Critical Appraisal of the Statecraft Interpretation
This article subjects the Statecraft interpretation to critical assessment. It argues that, while Bulpitt has provided a parsimonious and stimulating contribution to our understanding of British politics, his work needs to be developed. More specifically, although the Statecraft thesis evolved out of Bulpitt’s concerns with the methodology of political science, a neglect of ontological and epistemological questions has led it to propound explanat…
Britain as an Awkward Partner
This article attempts to do two things. It begins by asserting that there is something that can be called the Awkward Partner thesis, and that this is the dominant academic interpretation of Britain's relations with the European Union. The article then goes on to critically assess this thesis. Particular attention is paid to the concept of awkwardness, and an attempt is made to question its usefulness and validity. The article then goes on to que…
Contesting Europeanisation
This article investigates how Europeanisation can sometimes generate controversy at the domestic level by exploring British policy towards ERM in the 1980s and 1990s. It argues that existing approaches which point to the occurrence of ‘misfit’ between domestic and European institutions/policies only go part of the way to explaining the contentious nature of this process. Europeanisation was disputed in this instance because it produced competing …
Understanding the Europeanisation of Public Policy
Understanding Contemporary Conservative Euro‐Scepticism
The Europeanization of National Politics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Hedging its Bets
Some argue that European financial services regulation is witnessing a shift from a ‘market-making’ to a ‘market-shaping’ paradigm after the global financial crisis. This so-called ‘new’ political economy explanation stresses the role of ideas to understand this change. We consider this claim by providing an in-depth examination of recent European hedge fund legislation from the perspective of two key ‘market-making’ coalition members: the UK gov…
Depoliticisation
In outlining the depoliticisation framework, Peter Burnham (2001) has made a major contribution to a neglected subject in the study of British politics. Characteristically, Burnham’s (2006) response to our article (Buller and Flinders 2005) contains a number of perceptive observations that in our view serve to advance further the debate on depoliticisation. Among other things, he suggests that rather than conceptualising the post-war development …
Britain as an Awkward Partner
This article attempts to do two things. It begins by asserting that there is something that can be called the Awkward Partner thesis, and that this is the dominant academic interpretation of Britain's relations with the European Union. The article then goes on to critically assess this thesis. Particular attention is paid to the concept of awkwardness, and an attempt is made to question its usefulness and validity. The article then goes on to que…
A Critical Appraisal of the Statecraft Interpretation
This article subjects the Statecraft interpretation to critical assessment. It argues that, while Bulpitt has provided a parsimonious and stimulating contribution to our understanding of British politics, his work needs to be developed. More specifically, although the Statecraft thesis evolved out of Bulpitt’s concerns with the methodology of political science, a neglect of ontological and epistemological questions has led it to propound explanat…
Understanding Contemporary Conservative Euro‐Scepticism
Understanding the Europeanisation of Public Policy
Conceptualising Europeanisation
This article subjects the existing literature on the concept of Europeanisation to critical scrutiny. It begins by providing a general discussion of the methodology of concept formation. It then goes on to assess five current usages of the tern Europeanisation, before providing an alternative definition. The main argument pursued here is that academics have been too quick to conceptualise Europeanisation as a process which is capable of producing…
The Europeanization of National Politics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Domestic Origins of Depoliticisation in the Area of British Economic Policy
This article seeks to build on Peter Burnham's analysis of New Labour's depoliticisation statecraft as set out in an earlier volume of this journal. While Burnham provides a convincing account of how this new governing strategy differed from earlier ‘politicised’ methods of governance, we know less about why such change took place. Burnham makes a start by suggesting that developments in the international financial system go some way to explainin…
Depoliticisation
Depoliticisation
In outlining the depoliticisation framework, Peter Burnham (2001) has made a major contribution to a neglected subject in the study of British politics. Characteristically, Burnham’s (2006) response to our article (Buller and Flinders 2005) contains a number of perceptive observations that in our view serve to advance further the debate on depoliticisation. Among other things, he suggests that rather than conceptualising the post-war development …
Contesting Europeanisation
This article investigates how Europeanisation can sometimes generate controversy at the domestic level by exploring British policy towards ERM in the 1980s and 1990s. It argues that existing approaches which point to the occurrence of ‘misfit’ between domestic and European institutions/policies only go part of the way to explaining the contentious nature of this process. Europeanisation was disputed in this instance because it produced competing …
Statecraft and the Assessment of National Political Leaders
This article makes the case for employing the statecraft approach (associated with the late Jim Bulpitt) to assess political leadership in Britain. Rather than ‘importing’ methodologies from the US, as some scholars have done, statecraft is preferred in the UK context for two main reasons. First, statecraft is concerned with the motives and behaviour of leadership cliques, and as a result, it is more appropriate for the collective leadership styl…
Hedging its Bets
Some argue that European financial services regulation is witnessing a shift from a ‘market-making’ to a ‘market-shaping’ paradigm after the global financial crisis. This so-called ‘new’ political economy explanation stresses the role of ideas to understand this change. We consider this claim by providing an in-depth examination of recent European hedge fund legislation from the perspective of two key ‘market-making’ coalition members: the UK gov…
The importance of being autonomous
State spatiality in an era of global and regional interdependence
Since the 1990s, political science has been criticised for its inability to adequately theorise the role and nature of the state in an era of global interdependence. In particular, the discipline is said to have fallen into a ‘territorial trap’. It is founded on a territorial conception of space that both reifies and limits debate about the state to whether it is ‘obsolete’ or ‘obstinate’ in a world where power is increasingly located in transnat…
Inter-Organisational Distrust and the Political Economy of Central Bank Independence in the UK
This article revisits a puzzle: why did the Conservative Governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major not grant independence to the Bank of England? A substantial literature offers several explanations for why New Labour carried out this reform to UK monetary policy, many of which ought to have been relevant to the Conservatives’ stewardship of the economy in the 1980s and 1990s. So why did the Conservatives fail to see the advantages of a pol…
Political science (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (14 works) · Economics (12 works) · Political economy (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (9 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (7 works) · Positive economics (7 works)