Mark Wickham‐jone
Biographic Data
| ID | 4371701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Wickham‐jone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Wickham‐jone |
| SIGNATURE | JONE M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6429-6336 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 210 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Stuart Hall, the New Left, and the Labour Party
International audience
What Did They Wish For? Party Government, Polarization and the American Political Science Association
In tracing the development of increased polarization in the United States, numerous scholars have noted the apparent importance of the American Political Science Association's (APSA's) Committee on Political Parties. The committee's influential (and often criticized) report, Toward a More Responsible Two-Party System , called for a wholesale transformation of political parties in the United States. On its publication in October 1950, political sc…
Sam Rosenfeld, The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era
Lewis Minkin’s Labours: The Developing Party–Trade Union Relationship
In this article, I examine critically the themes raised by Lewis Minkin in his 2014 volume about Labour politics, The Blair Supremacy, within the context of his earlier work concerning the party’s relationship with its affiliated trade unions. I outline his argument concerning the development of party management, especially that regarding ‘a Blair coup’. I discuss the role of norms in political explanation, the importance of formal rules in under…
Friends and neighbours voting revisited: The geography of support for candidates to lead the UK's Labour party
The Modernising Antecedents and Historical Origins of One Nation Labour
Launched at the 2012 conference, Ed Miliband's One Nation Labour initiative draws heavily on the party's experience under Neil Kinnock during the late 1980s as well as from Tony Blair's tenure as leader of the opposition between 1994 and 1997. In policy terms, Miliband promised a Labour government would prevent firms from ‘poaching’ trained workers from other businesses and would stop short term predatory behaviour in the economy by offering comp…
Brothers all? The Operation of the Electoral College in the 2010 Labour Leadership Contest
This article analyses the wealth of data released by the Labour Party on its 2010 leadership election. We uncover the way in which the list of candidates was expanded via the initial nomination process in the parliamentary Labour Party and highlight the artificiality of some candidacies. We find little evidence in the voting data to support the belief that the Miliband brothers represented two sides of an ideological divide but highlight the prof…
The debate about wages: The New Left, the Labour Party and incomes policy
The article appraises an economic initiative developed by members of the New Left in the UK in the form of A Socialist Wages Plan written by Ken Alexander and John Hughes. Their proposal was significant, coming at a time when some commentators argued the Labour Party was seeking to mimic aspects of the Swedish social democratic model and because of the measures adopted by the 1964-1970 Labour government. The hostility from scholars and political …
Labour's lost grassroots: The rise and fall of party membership
Understanding New Labour: A symposium on Eric Shaw's Losing Labour's Soul
Reinventing the block vote? Trade unions and the 2010 Labour party leadership election
Gripped by the past: Nostalgia and the 2010 Labour party leadership contest
The Future of Socialism and New Labour: An Appraisal
Recently, much controversy has been generated about what Tony Crosland would have made of New Labour. Critics and supporters of the Blair project alike have laid claim to Crosland's legacy. For some it is evidence of New Labour's integrity; for others it confirms the party's betrayal of social democratic values. An examination of the arguments in The Future of Socialism indicates that it is neither. In this article, I offer a new appraisal of tha…
Signaling Credibility: Electoral Strategy and New Labour in Britain
Political Science QuarterlyVolume 120, Issue 4 p. 653-673 Signaling Credibility: Electoral Strategy and New Labour in Britain MARK WICKHAM-JONES, MARK WICKHAM-JONES MARK WICKHAM-JONES is senior lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Bristol. A specialist in Labour politics, he is the author of Economic Strategy and the Labour Party and co-editor of New Labour's Foreign Policy.Search for more papers by this author MARK WICKHAM…
New Labour, Gender Mainstreaming and the Women and Equality Unit
New Labour's approach to gender mainstreaming is perhaps best exemplified through the work of the Women and Equality Unit (WEU). In this article we chart the development of the Unit and varied initiatives in which it has been involved and provide a preliminary assessment of the Unit's work. We start with a discussion of Labour's approach to mainstreaming. This provides a context for a profile of the work of the Women's Unit (WU) between 1997 and …
From Reformism to Resignation and Remedialism? Labour's Trajectory Through British Politics
On 9 April 1992, the British Labour party lost its fourth successive general election. The outcome, coming after prolonged economic difficulties, led many commentators to call into question altogether the viability of the reformist project in the United Kingdom. For Labour's leaders, the result was bitterly disappointing. To lose any general election is, of course, evidence of failure. But, given the extent of the radical transformation the party…
British Labour, European Social Democracy and the Reformist Trajectory: A Reply to Coates
New Labour in the Global Economy: Partisan Politics and the Social Democratic Model
Drawing on a framework developed by Geoffrey Garrett in his recent book Partisan Politics in the Global Economy, I examine the ‘policy space’ that is available for the social democratic project in the United Kingdom. Garrett is optimistic about the possibilities for reformism: he emphasises the ability of an ‘encompassing’ labour movement to exchange wage restraint for reformist policies. Given the absence of such an encompassing labour movement …
From Clinton to Blair: The Democratic (Party) Origins of Welfare to Work
Social capital, British social democracy and new labour
Training Without the State? New Labour and labour markets
English In 1996 the British Labour Party abandoned its commitment to a state-led training policy funded through a levy on business. It adopted a new scheme based on individual plans with minimal public intervention and no levy. Drawing on archival sources, this article examines the development of Labour’s policy towards training over the last 15 years. The authors argue that the new proposals mark the failure of the Party’s attempt to locate itse…
Right Turn: A Revisionist Account of the 1975 Conservative Party Leadership Election
Right Turn: A Revisionist Account of the 1975 Conservative Party Leadership Election Get access MARK WICKHAM-JONES MARK WICKHAM-JONES University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 74–89, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/8.1.74 Published: 01 January 1997
Social Democracy and Structural Dependency: The British Case. A Note on Hay
Recasting Social Democracy: A Comment on Hay and Smith
Since 1983 Labour has undergone a far-reaching metamorphosis. In a recent debate in Political Studies. Colin Hay and Martin Smith provide important insights into that transformation.1 However, the dichotomy within which they locate developments is a limited and potentially misleading one. Hay argues that Labour has uncritically accepted a new Thatcherite political settlement while Smith claims the changes represent a modernization of the party. I…
Anticipating Social Democracy, Preempting Anticipations: Economic Policy-Making in the British Labor Party, 1987-1992
From Clinton to Blair: The Democratic (Party) Origins of Welfare to Work
Anticipating Social Democracy, Preempting Anticipations: Economic Policy-Making in the British Labor Party, 1987-1992
New Labour, Gender Mainstreaming and the Women and Equality Unit
New Labour's approach to gender mainstreaming is perhaps best exemplified through the work of the Women and Equality Unit (WEU). In this article we chart the development of the Unit and varied initiatives in which it has been involved and provide a preliminary assessment of the Unit's work. We start with a discussion of Labour's approach to mainstreaming. This provides a context for a profile of the work of the Women's Unit (WU) between 1997 and …
Friends and neighbours voting revisited: The geography of support for candidates to lead the UK's Labour party
Brothers all? The Operation of the Electoral College in the 2010 Labour Leadership Contest
This article analyses the wealth of data released by the Labour Party on its 2010 leadership election. We uncover the way in which the list of candidates was expanded via the initial nomination process in the parliamentary Labour Party and highlight the artificiality of some candidacies. We find little evidence in the voting data to support the belief that the Miliband brothers represented two sides of an ideological divide but highlight the prof…
Reinventing the block vote? Trade unions and the 2010 Labour party leadership election
Social Democracy and Rational Workers
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New Labour in the Global Economy: Partisan Politics and the Social Democratic Model
Drawing on a framework developed by Geoffrey Garrett in his recent book Partisan Politics in the Global Economy, I examine the ‘policy space’ that is available for the social democratic project in the United Kingdom. Garrett is optimistic about the possibilities for reformism: he emphasises the ability of an ‘encompassing’ labour movement to exchange wage restraint for reformist policies. Given the absence of such an encompassing labour movement …
Training Without the State? New Labour and labour markets
English In 1996 the British Labour Party abandoned its commitment to a state-led training policy funded through a levy on business. It adopted a new scheme based on individual plans with minimal public intervention and no levy. Drawing on archival sources, this article examines the development of Labour’s policy towards training over the last 15 years. The authors argue that the new proposals mark the failure of the Party’s attempt to locate itse…
Gripped by the past: Nostalgia and the 2010 Labour party leadership contest
Social capital, British social democracy and new labour
Recasting Social Democracy: A Comment on Hay and Smith
Since 1983 Labour has undergone a far-reaching metamorphosis. In a recent debate in Political Studies. Colin Hay and Martin Smith provide important insights into that transformation.1 However, the dichotomy within which they locate developments is a limited and potentially misleading one. Hay argues that Labour has uncritically accepted a new Thatcherite political settlement while Smith claims the changes represent a modernization of the party. I…
Right Turn: A Revisionist Account of the 1975 Conservative Party Leadership Election
Right Turn: A Revisionist Account of the 1975 Conservative Party Leadership Election Get access MARK WICKHAM-JONES MARK WICKHAM-JONES University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 74–89, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/8.1.74 Published: 01 January 1997
Social Democracy in Hard Times: The Economic Record of the Labour Government 1974–1979
Social Democracy in Hard Times: The Economic Record of the Labour Government 1974–1979 Get access M. ARTIS, M. ARTIS University of Manchester and Centre for Economic Policy Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar D. COBHAM, D. COBHAM University of St A ndrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar M. WICKHAM-JONES M. WICKHAM-JONES University of Bristol Search for other wo…
Labour's lost grassroots: The rise and fall of party membership
From Reformism to Resignation and Remedialism? Labour's Trajectory Through British Politics
On 9 April 1992, the British Labour party lost its fourth successive general election. The outcome, coming after prolonged economic difficulties, led many commentators to call into question altogether the viability of the reformist project in the United Kingdom. For Labour's leaders, the result was bitterly disappointing. To lose any general election is, of course, evidence of failure. But, given the extent of the radical transformation the party…
The Modernising Antecedents and Historical Origins of One Nation Labour
Launched at the 2012 conference, Ed Miliband's One Nation Labour initiative draws heavily on the party's experience under Neil Kinnock during the late 1980s as well as from Tony Blair's tenure as leader of the opposition between 1994 and 1997. In policy terms, Miliband promised a Labour government would prevent firms from ‘poaching’ trained workers from other businesses and would stop short term predatory behaviour in the economy by offering comp…
The debate about wages: The New Left, the Labour Party and incomes policy
The article appraises an economic initiative developed by members of the New Left in the UK in the form of A Socialist Wages Plan written by Ken Alexander and John Hughes. Their proposal was significant, coming at a time when some commentators argued the Labour Party was seeking to mimic aspects of the Swedish social democratic model and because of the measures adopted by the 1964-1970 Labour government. The hostility from scholars and political …
British Labour, European Social Democracy and the Reformist Trajectory: A Reply to Coates
Social Democracy and Structural Dependency: The British Case. A Note on Hay
Monetarism and Its Critics: The University Economists’protest of 1981
The Future of Socialism and New Labour: An Appraisal
Recently, much controversy has been generated about what Tony Crosland would have made of New Labour. Critics and supporters of the Blair project alike have laid claim to Crosland's legacy. For some it is evidence of New Labour's integrity; for others it confirms the party's betrayal of social democratic values. An examination of the arguments in The Future of Socialism indicates that it is neither. In this article, I offer a new appraisal of tha…
The problems of economic adjustment
Unkept Promises, Unclear Consequences: US Economic Policy and the Japanese Response, edited by Ryuzo Sato and John A. Rizzo. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988. viii+200 pp. £25, ISBN 0-521-35201-0.Beyond Trade Friction; Japan-US Economic Relations, edited by Ryuzo Sato and Julianne Nelson. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989. xiii+201 pp. £25. ISBN 0-521-36467-1.Global Adjustment and the Future of Asian-Pacific Economy, edited b…
Social Democracy and Rational Workers
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The transformation of contemporary conservation
Social Democracy in Hard Times: The Economic Record of the Labour Government 1974–1979
Social Democracy in Hard Times: The Economic Record of the Labour Government 1974–1979 Get access M. ARTIS, M. ARTIS University of Manchester and Centre for Economic Policy Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar D. COBHAM, D. COBHAM University of St A ndrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar M. WICKHAM-JONES M. WICKHAM-JONES University of Bristol Search for other wo…
The pressures for protection
Japan's Unequal Trade, by Edward J. Lincoln. The Brookings Institution, Washington, 1990. xiii+223 pp. $26.95. ISBN 0–8157–5262–8. Japan's Quest for a Role in the World: Roles ascribed to Japan Nationally and Internationally, by Bert Edström. Institute of Oriental Languages, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, 1988. xiii+325 pp. ISBN 91–7146–585–5. Japan at the Summit: Its Role in the Western Alliance and Asian‐Pacific Cooperation, by Shiro Saito…
Monetarism and Its Critics: The University Economists’protest of 1981
Recasting Social Democracy: A Comment on Hay and Smith
Since 1983 Labour has undergone a far-reaching metamorphosis. In a recent debate in Political Studies. Colin Hay and Martin Smith provide important insights into that transformation.1 However, the dichotomy within which they locate developments is a limited and potentially misleading one. Hay argues that Labour has uncritically accepted a new Thatcherite political settlement while Smith claims the changes represent a modernization of the party. I…
Anticipating Social Democracy, Preempting Anticipations: Economic Policy-Making in the British Labor Party, 1987-1992
Right Turn: A Revisionist Account of the 1975 Conservative Party Leadership Election
Right Turn: A Revisionist Account of the 1975 Conservative Party Leadership Election Get access MARK WICKHAM-JONES MARK WICKHAM-JONES University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 74–89, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/8.1.74 Published: 01 January 1997
Social Democracy and Structural Dependency: The British Case. A Note on Hay
Training Without the State? New Labour and labour markets
English In 1996 the British Labour Party abandoned its commitment to a state-led training policy funded through a levy on business. It adopted a new scheme based on individual plans with minimal public intervention and no levy. Drawing on archival sources, this article examines the development of Labour’s policy towards training over the last 15 years. The authors argue that the new proposals mark the failure of the Party’s attempt to locate itse…
From Clinton to Blair: The Democratic (Party) Origins of Welfare to Work
Social capital, British social democracy and new labour
New Labour in the Global Economy: Partisan Politics and the Social Democratic Model
Drawing on a framework developed by Geoffrey Garrett in his recent book Partisan Politics in the Global Economy, I examine the ‘policy space’ that is available for the social democratic project in the United Kingdom. Garrett is optimistic about the possibilities for reformism: he emphasises the ability of an ‘encompassing’ labour movement to exchange wage restraint for reformist policies. Given the absence of such an encompassing labour movement …
British Labour, European Social Democracy and the Reformist Trajectory: A Reply to Coates
From Reformism to Resignation and Remedialism? Labour's Trajectory Through British Politics
On 9 April 1992, the British Labour party lost its fourth successive general election. The outcome, coming after prolonged economic difficulties, led many commentators to call into question altogether the viability of the reformist project in the United Kingdom. For Labour's leaders, the result was bitterly disappointing. To lose any general election is, of course, evidence of failure. But, given the extent of the radical transformation the party…
New Labour, Gender Mainstreaming and the Women and Equality Unit
New Labour's approach to gender mainstreaming is perhaps best exemplified through the work of the Women and Equality Unit (WEU). In this article we chart the development of the Unit and varied initiatives in which it has been involved and provide a preliminary assessment of the Unit's work. We start with a discussion of Labour's approach to mainstreaming. This provides a context for a profile of the work of the Women's Unit (WU) between 1997 and …
Signaling Credibility: Electoral Strategy and New Labour in Britain
Political Science QuarterlyVolume 120, Issue 4 p. 653-673 Signaling Credibility: Electoral Strategy and New Labour in Britain MARK WICKHAM-JONES, MARK WICKHAM-JONES MARK WICKHAM-JONES is senior lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Bristol. A specialist in Labour politics, he is the author of Economic Strategy and the Labour Party and co-editor of New Labour's Foreign Policy.Search for more papers by this author MARK WICKHAM…
The Future of Socialism and New Labour: An Appraisal
Recently, much controversy has been generated about what Tony Crosland would have made of New Labour. Critics and supporters of the Blair project alike have laid claim to Crosland's legacy. For some it is evidence of New Labour's integrity; for others it confirms the party's betrayal of social democratic values. An examination of the arguments in The Future of Socialism indicates that it is neither. In this article, I offer a new appraisal of tha…
Gripped by the past: Nostalgia and the 2010 Labour party leadership contest
Understanding New Labour: A symposium on Eric Shaw's Losing Labour's Soul
Reinventing the block vote? Trade unions and the 2010 Labour party leadership election
Labour's lost grassroots: The rise and fall of party membership
The Modernising Antecedents and Historical Origins of One Nation Labour
Launched at the 2012 conference, Ed Miliband's One Nation Labour initiative draws heavily on the party's experience under Neil Kinnock during the late 1980s as well as from Tony Blair's tenure as leader of the opposition between 1994 and 1997. In policy terms, Miliband promised a Labour government would prevent firms from ‘poaching’ trained workers from other businesses and would stop short term predatory behaviour in the economy by offering comp…
Brothers all? The Operation of the Electoral College in the 2010 Labour Leadership Contest
This article analyses the wealth of data released by the Labour Party on its 2010 leadership election. We uncover the way in which the list of candidates was expanded via the initial nomination process in the parliamentary Labour Party and highlight the artificiality of some candidacies. We find little evidence in the voting data to support the belief that the Miliband brothers represented two sides of an ideological divide but highlight the prof…
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