Jonathan Bradbury
Biographic Data
| ID | 4379726 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Bradbury |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Bradbury |
| SIGNATURE | BRADBURY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8966-1734 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 259 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Brexit as a critical juncture in the politics of UK devolution
In this paper, we theorize the 2016 Brexit referendum as a critical juncture in UK politics and analyse its effects on devolution using the concept of regional authority. We argue that Brexit raised the option of re-balancing the self-rule and shared rule dimensions of regional authority present in UK devolution. We generate hypotheses regarding parties’ territorial strategies and test them against a content analysis of 2015 and 2017 UK general e…
Welsh Devolution and the Union
The survey addresses three key reform debates relating to devolution in Wales. These concern first, the case for the further devolution of powers, notably those over criminal justice and policing; second, the defence of Wales’ devolved powers in the context of Brexit; and third, the rooting of devolution in new constitutional ideals, primarily the Welsh government’s preferred model of the UK as a voluntary association of nations, or the alternati…
The Election in Wales
Theresa May’s decision to call a general election was apparently taken while on a North Wales walking holiday at Easter 2017. The problems of having a small parliamentary majority were mounting and the polls looked strong enough to conclude that winning a larger majority was likely if an election was held. Looking across Wales she would have known that there were prospects for gains even in this Labour stronghold. Labour still held 25 of Wales’ 4…
Un collage de fuentes en la Historia de Marco Antonio y Cleopatra (1839) de Castillo Solórzano
La Historia de Marco Antonio y Cleopatra (1639) de Castillo Solórzano es el depósito literario más nutrido de materiales acerca de Cleopatra a lo largo del Siglo de Oro. Se trata de un relato popular que entretiene mientras promueve una clara visión ejemplar: Castillo reconoce el poder y el atractivo de atributos como la lujuria y la avidez, al tiempo que las condena por medio de Cleopatra, Marco Antonio, Julio César, Pompeyo y Octaviano. Lo que …
Wales
Explaining Cooperation over Casework between Members of National and Regional Parliaments
Dealing with constituent inquiries has long been a central component of political representation. Increasingly responsibilities for public policy are either divided or shared between regional and national legislatures and constituents frequently misdirect their inquiries. This article demonstrates how demand and supply factors determine the extent to which regional and national legislators across seven European democracies redirect inquiries on m…
Constituency Service in Multi-level Democracies
What are the patterns of legislator responsiveness to constituents in multi-level democracies, and what explains them? Previously, comparative research has been hampered by a lack of theory and a lack of data. The article first theorizes how constituency service may be explained by conventional arguments, such as electoral motivations and role orientations. It then considers how regionalization specifically might affect service responsiveness. Us…
State Devolution and National Identity
Wales is one of the principal cases in Europe where the stateless nation enjoys relatively high levels of identification relative to the state, and is a key focus for addressing identity politics in the UK following devolution in 1997–1999. However, the development and political consequences of Welshness and Britishness are currently relatively neglected in the research literature. This article explores these issues in relation to post-devolution…
Wales and the 2010 General Election
Journal Article Wales and the 2010 General Election Get access Jonathan Bradbury Jonathan Bradbury Swansea University, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 63, Issue 4, October 2010, Pages 726–741, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsq029 Published: 01 October 2010
Territory and Power
This introduction to the special issue provides an exploration of the scholarly analysis of Jim Bulpitt's Territory and Power in the United Kingdom: An Interpretation. It first addresses the principal theoretical concerns and the historical interpretation that Bulpitt pursued in Territory and Power. It discusses the main lines of criticism that have been laid against the book and how in turn these have been rebutted. The article then assesses how…
Jim Bulpitt's Territory and Power in the United Kingdom and Interpreting Political Development
This article addresses the relative neglect of Territory and Power in informing the study of general state political development, both as a theoretical approach and in its application to the UK. It locates Territory and Power as a distinct contribution to two major schools of comparative research. The first section argues that Territory and Power provided an approach that was part of the intellectual turn during the 1980s to bring the state back …
The Constituency Work of Scottish and Welsh MPs
Historically, British MPs had established high levels of commitment to constituency work. The introduction of devolution in Scotland and Wales posed new challenges locally from AMs and MSPs. The article shows that the volume of constituency work for MPs in Scotland and Wales has declined, but this has not been as sharp as may have been expected. Co-operation and competition between members over constituency work is strongly, though not exclusivel…
Conclusion
The paper returns to the research questions specified in the introduction: on approaches to constituency work and the relationships between members over that work. To a considerable extent it confirms the validity of the five hypotheses advanced. Nevertheless, there are variations between Canada, Germany, New Zealand and the UK, the nature of and reasons for which are discussed. Scotland and Wales both converge and diverge from comparative experi…
The Constituency Work of Members of the Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales
The Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales electoral systems created both constituency and list members. The article discusses hypotheses for exploring their behaviour and notes the particular context of regional party systems dominated to a greater or lesser extent by the Labour party. The authors find that constituency members of the Scottish Parliament and the National Assembly broadly conduct more constituency work than list memb…
British Statewide Parties and Multilevel Politics
The article addresses how Britain's major statewide political parties—Labour, the Conservatives, and the Liberal Democrats—adapted to political devolution in Scotland and Wales. It explores party organization, programs, and policymaking. It argues that the Labour Party experienced the most territorial intraparty conflict but fairly rapidly achieved a new balance between British and Scottish/Welsh party interests. The Conservative Party struggled …
Territory and Power Revisited
The article seeks to contribute to theoretical analysis of political decentralisation in the UK occasioned by devolution to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in 1998–9. It examines the contribution that can be made by Jim Bulpitt's 1983 book, Territory and Power in the United Kingdom. First, it argues that Bulpitt's critique of conventional wisdoms in the early 1980s remains highly relevant to reflecting on shortcomings in the literature today…
Devolution
In Scotland and Wales devolved governance has established an interesting paradox. Scotland, at the leading edge of devolution, has been timid in developing novel policy agendas. In contrast, in Wales ‘clear red water’ has been created, notably in health and education. In both countries, policy was entangled with constitutional development. In Scotland, a debate began on changing the electoral system for the Parliament. In Wales, the Richard Commi…
Political recruitment and the 2003 Scottish and Welsh elections
Party candidate selection procedures for Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections, in addition to a traditional concern to recruit effective politicians, have been viewed as a means of bringing in new blood, achieving better female representation, and in Wales at least, promoting ethnic minority representation. Such issues have been felt most keenly by Labour, the nationalist parties and the Liberal Democrats. This article explores the im…
The Political Dynamics of Sub-State Regionalisation
The article seeks to contribute to theoretical analysis of sub-state regionalisation, particularly as applied to the study of its principal history-making developments. It argues that cross-fertilising the classic neo-functionalist perspective on European supranational regionalisation offers a profitable basis for development. The article clarifies its conceptual categories, adapting to take account of the sub-state context, and then applies the …
Devolution
Journal Article Devolution: Problems, Politics and Prospects Get access Jonathan Bradbury, Jonathan Bradbury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Neil McGarvey Neil McGarvey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 56, Issue 2, 1 April 2003, Pages 219–236, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/gsg015 Published: 01 April 2003
Devolution and Territorial Politics
Journal Article Devolution and Territorial Politics: Stability, Uncertainty and Crisis Get access Jonathan Bradbury, Jonathan Bradbury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James Mitchell James Mitchell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 55, Issue 2, 1 April 2002, Pages 299–316, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/55.2.299 Published: 01 April 2002
Harbingers of new politics? The characteristics and attitudes of candidates in the Scottish parliament elections, 1999
Devolution
Candidate selection, devolution and modernization
Describes the selection of Labour Party candidates for the 1999 Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections
The state of two nations
The following article compares and contrasts the elections for the recently devolved Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales
British Statewide Parties and Multilevel Politics
The article addresses how Britain's major statewide political parties—Labour, the Conservatives, and the Liberal Democrats—adapted to political devolution in Scotland and Wales. It explores party organization, programs, and policymaking. It argues that the Labour Party experienced the most territorial intraparty conflict but fairly rapidly achieved a new balance between British and Scottish/Welsh party interests. The Conservative Party struggled …
Territory and Power Revisited
The article seeks to contribute to theoretical analysis of political decentralisation in the UK occasioned by devolution to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in 1998–9. It examines the contribution that can be made by Jim Bulpitt's 1983 book, Territory and Power in the United Kingdom. First, it argues that Bulpitt's critique of conventional wisdoms in the early 1980s remains highly relevant to reflecting on shortcomings in the literature today…
The Constituency Work of Members of the Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales
The Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales electoral systems created both constituency and list members. The article discusses hypotheses for exploring their behaviour and notes the particular context of regional party systems dominated to a greater or lesser extent by the Labour party. The authors find that constituency members of the Scottish Parliament and the National Assembly broadly conduct more constituency work than list memb…
Constituency Service in Multi-level Democracies
What are the patterns of legislator responsiveness to constituents in multi-level democracies, and what explains them? Previously, comparative research has been hampered by a lack of theory and a lack of data. The article first theorizes how constituency service may be explained by conventional arguments, such as electoral motivations and role orientations. It then considers how regionalization specifically might affect service responsiveness. Us…
Devolution
In Scotland and Wales devolved governance has established an interesting paradox. Scotland, at the leading edge of devolution, has been timid in developing novel policy agendas. In contrast, in Wales ‘clear red water’ has been created, notably in health and education. In both countries, policy was entangled with constitutional development. In Scotland, a debate began on changing the electoral system for the Parliament. In Wales, the Richard Commi…
The Constituency Work of Scottish and Welsh MPs
Historically, British MPs had established high levels of commitment to constituency work. The introduction of devolution in Scotland and Wales posed new challenges locally from AMs and MSPs. The article shows that the volume of constituency work for MPs in Scotland and Wales has declined, but this has not been as sharp as may have been expected. Co-operation and competition between members over constituency work is strongly, though not exclusivel…
Devolution
Devolution and party change
The article analyses the candidate selection procedures of each of the major parties in the run‐up to the 1999 Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections, assessing the extent to which they reveal developments in party democratisation and decentralisation on the one hand, and evidence of countervailing central control on the other. Procedural innovations achieved greater openness in candidate nomination and gender balance in candidatures bu…
State Devolution and National Identity
Wales is one of the principal cases in Europe where the stateless nation enjoys relatively high levels of identification relative to the state, and is a key focus for addressing identity politics in the UK following devolution in 1997–1999. However, the development and political consequences of Welshness and Britishness are currently relatively neglected in the research literature. This article explores these issues in relation to post-devolution…
Jim Bulpitt's Territory and Power in the United Kingdom and Interpreting Political Development
This article addresses the relative neglect of Territory and Power in informing the study of general state political development, both as a theoretical approach and in its application to the UK. It locates Territory and Power as a distinct contribution to two major schools of comparative research. The first section argues that Territory and Power provided an approach that was part of the intellectual turn during the 1980s to bring the state back …
Devolution and Territorial Politics
Journal Article Devolution and Territorial Politics: Stability, Uncertainty and Crisis Get access Jonathan Bradbury, Jonathan Bradbury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James Mitchell James Mitchell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 55, Issue 2, 1 April 2002, Pages 299–316, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/55.2.299 Published: 01 April 2002
Political recruitment and the 2003 Scottish and Welsh elections
Party candidate selection procedures for Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections, in addition to a traditional concern to recruit effective politicians, have been viewed as a means of bringing in new blood, achieving better female representation, and in Wales at least, promoting ethnic minority representation. Such issues have been felt most keenly by Labour, the nationalist parties and the Liberal Democrats. This article explores the im…
Candidate selection, devolution and modernization
Describes the selection of Labour Party candidates for the 1999 Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections
The Political Dynamics of Sub-State Regionalisation
The article seeks to contribute to theoretical analysis of sub-state regionalisation, particularly as applied to the study of its principal history-making developments. It argues that cross-fertilising the classic neo-functionalist perspective on European supranational regionalisation offers a profitable basis for development. The article clarifies its conceptual categories, adapting to take account of the sub-state context, and then applies the …
The devolution debate in Wales during the major governments
Policy Review Section
At the UK Political Studies Association Conference, held at the University of Glasgow on April 10-12 1996, the British Territorial Politics Group of the Association held a panel on New Labour and Devolution. Regional Studies subsequently invited panellists to submit their papers to the Policy Review Section in two parts. Part One in the last edition of the Section featured papers on the Labour Party's approach to devolution in Scotland. Part Two …
Brexit as a critical juncture in the politics of UK devolution
In this paper, we theorize the 2016 Brexit referendum as a critical juncture in UK politics and analyse its effects on devolution using the concept of regional authority. We argue that Brexit raised the option of re-balancing the self-rule and shared rule dimensions of regional authority present in UK devolution. We generate hypotheses regarding parties’ territorial strategies and test them against a content analysis of 2015 and 2017 UK general e…
The Election in Wales
Theresa May’s decision to call a general election was apparently taken while on a North Wales walking holiday at Easter 2017. The problems of having a small parliamentary majority were mounting and the polls looked strong enough to conclude that winning a larger majority was likely if an election was held. Looking across Wales she would have known that there were prospects for gains even in this Labour stronghold. Labour still held 25 of Wales’ 4…
Wales
Territory and Power
This introduction to the special issue provides an exploration of the scholarly analysis of Jim Bulpitt's Territory and Power in the United Kingdom: An Interpretation. It first addresses the principal theoretical concerns and the historical interpretation that Bulpitt pursued in Territory and Power. It discusses the main lines of criticism that have been laid against the book and how in turn these have been rebutted. The article then assesses how…
Conclusion
The paper returns to the research questions specified in the introduction: on approaches to constituency work and the relationships between members over that work. To a considerable extent it confirms the validity of the five hypotheses advanced. Nevertheless, there are variations between Canada, Germany, New Zealand and the UK, the nature of and reasons for which are discussed. Scotland and Wales both converge and diverge from comparative experi…
The state of two nations
The following article compares and contrasts the elections for the recently devolved Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales
Welsh Devolution and the Union
The survey addresses three key reform debates relating to devolution in Wales. These concern first, the case for the further devolution of powers, notably those over criminal justice and policing; second, the defence of Wales’ devolved powers in the context of Brexit; and third, the rooting of devolution in new constitutional ideals, primarily the Welsh government’s preferred model of the UK as a voluntary association of nations, or the alternati…
Explaining Cooperation over Casework between Members of National and Regional Parliaments
Dealing with constituent inquiries has long been a central component of political representation. Increasingly responsibilities for public policy are either divided or shared between regional and national legislatures and constituents frequently misdirect their inquiries. This article demonstrates how demand and supply factors determine the extent to which regional and national legislators across seven European democracies redirect inquiries on m…
Wales and the 2010 General Election
Journal Article Wales and the 2010 General Election Get access Jonathan Bradbury Jonathan Bradbury Swansea University, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 63, Issue 4, October 2010, Pages 726–741, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsq029 Published: 01 October 2010
Policy Review Section
At the UK Political Studies Association Conference, held at the University of Glasgow on April 10-12 1996, the British Territorial Politics Group of the Association held a panel on New Labour and Devolution. Regional Studies subsequently invited panellists to submit their papers to the Policy Review Section in two parts. Part One in the last edition of the Section featured papers on the Labour Party's approach to devolution in Scotland. Part Two …
The Blair government's white papers on British devolution
(1997). The Blair government's white papers on British devolution: A review of Scotland's parliament and a voice for Wales. Regional & Federal Studies: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 115-133
The devolution debate in Wales during the major governments
Candidate selection, devolution and modernization
Describes the selection of Labour Party candidates for the 1999 Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections
The state of two nations
The following article compares and contrasts the elections for the recently devolved Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales
Devolution and party change
The article analyses the candidate selection procedures of each of the major parties in the run‐up to the 1999 Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections, assessing the extent to which they reveal developments in party democratisation and decentralisation on the one hand, and evidence of countervailing central control on the other. Procedural innovations achieved greater openness in candidate nomination and gender balance in candidatures bu…
Harbingers of new politics? The characteristics and attitudes of candidates in the Scottish parliament elections, 1999
Devolution
Devolution and Territorial Politics
Journal Article Devolution and Territorial Politics: Stability, Uncertainty and Crisis Get access Jonathan Bradbury, Jonathan Bradbury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James Mitchell James Mitchell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 55, Issue 2, 1 April 2002, Pages 299–316, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/55.2.299 Published: 01 April 2002
The Political Dynamics of Sub-State Regionalisation
The article seeks to contribute to theoretical analysis of sub-state regionalisation, particularly as applied to the study of its principal history-making developments. It argues that cross-fertilising the classic neo-functionalist perspective on European supranational regionalisation offers a profitable basis for development. The article clarifies its conceptual categories, adapting to take account of the sub-state context, and then applies the …
Devolution
Journal Article Devolution: Problems, Politics and Prospects Get access Jonathan Bradbury, Jonathan Bradbury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Neil McGarvey Neil McGarvey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 56, Issue 2, 1 April 2003, Pages 219–236, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/gsg015 Published: 01 April 2003
Political recruitment and the 2003 Scottish and Welsh elections
Party candidate selection procedures for Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections, in addition to a traditional concern to recruit effective politicians, have been viewed as a means of bringing in new blood, achieving better female representation, and in Wales at least, promoting ethnic minority representation. Such issues have been felt most keenly by Labour, the nationalist parties and the Liberal Democrats. This article explores the im…
Devolution
In Scotland and Wales devolved governance has established an interesting paradox. Scotland, at the leading edge of devolution, has been timid in developing novel policy agendas. In contrast, in Wales ‘clear red water’ has been created, notably in health and education. In both countries, policy was entangled with constitutional development. In Scotland, a debate began on changing the electoral system for the Parliament. In Wales, the Richard Commi…
British Statewide Parties and Multilevel Politics
The article addresses how Britain's major statewide political parties—Labour, the Conservatives, and the Liberal Democrats—adapted to political devolution in Scotland and Wales. It explores party organization, programs, and policymaking. It argues that the Labour Party experienced the most territorial intraparty conflict but fairly rapidly achieved a new balance between British and Scottish/Welsh party interests. The Conservative Party struggled …
Territory and Power Revisited
The article seeks to contribute to theoretical analysis of political decentralisation in the UK occasioned by devolution to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in 1998–9. It examines the contribution that can be made by Jim Bulpitt's 1983 book, Territory and Power in the United Kingdom. First, it argues that Bulpitt's critique of conventional wisdoms in the early 1980s remains highly relevant to reflecting on shortcomings in the literature today…
The Constituency Work of Scottish and Welsh MPs
Historically, British MPs had established high levels of commitment to constituency work. The introduction of devolution in Scotland and Wales posed new challenges locally from AMs and MSPs. The article shows that the volume of constituency work for MPs in Scotland and Wales has declined, but this has not been as sharp as may have been expected. Co-operation and competition between members over constituency work is strongly, though not exclusivel…
Conclusion
The paper returns to the research questions specified in the introduction: on approaches to constituency work and the relationships between members over that work. To a considerable extent it confirms the validity of the five hypotheses advanced. Nevertheless, there are variations between Canada, Germany, New Zealand and the UK, the nature of and reasons for which are discussed. Scotland and Wales both converge and diverge from comparative experi…
The Constituency Work of Members of the Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales
The Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales electoral systems created both constituency and list members. The article discusses hypotheses for exploring their behaviour and notes the particular context of regional party systems dominated to a greater or lesser extent by the Labour party. The authors find that constituency members of the Scottish Parliament and the National Assembly broadly conduct more constituency work than list memb…
State Devolution and National Identity
Wales is one of the principal cases in Europe where the stateless nation enjoys relatively high levels of identification relative to the state, and is a key focus for addressing identity politics in the UK following devolution in 1997–1999. However, the development and political consequences of Welshness and Britishness are currently relatively neglected in the research literature. This article explores these issues in relation to post-devolution…
Wales and the 2010 General Election
Journal Article Wales and the 2010 General Election Get access Jonathan Bradbury Jonathan Bradbury Swansea University, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 63, Issue 4, October 2010, Pages 726–741, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsq029 Published: 01 October 2010
Territory and Power
This introduction to the special issue provides an exploration of the scholarly analysis of Jim Bulpitt's Territory and Power in the United Kingdom: An Interpretation. It first addresses the principal theoretical concerns and the historical interpretation that Bulpitt pursued in Territory and Power. It discusses the main lines of criticism that have been laid against the book and how in turn these have been rebutted. The article then assesses how…
Jim Bulpitt's Territory and Power in the United Kingdom and Interpreting Political Development
This article addresses the relative neglect of Territory and Power in informing the study of general state political development, both as a theoretical approach and in its application to the UK. It locates Territory and Power as a distinct contribution to two major schools of comparative research. The first section argues that Territory and Power provided an approach that was part of the intellectual turn during the 1980s to bring the state back …
Constituency Service in Multi-level Democracies
What are the patterns of legislator responsiveness to constituents in multi-level democracies, and what explains them? Previously, comparative research has been hampered by a lack of theory and a lack of data. The article first theorizes how constituency service may be explained by conventional arguments, such as electoral motivations and role orientations. It then considers how regionalization specifically might affect service responsiveness. Us…
Wales
Explaining Cooperation over Casework between Members of National and Regional Parliaments
Dealing with constituent inquiries has long been a central component of political representation. Increasingly responsibilities for public policy are either divided or shared between regional and national legislatures and constituents frequently misdirect their inquiries. This article demonstrates how demand and supply factors determine the extent to which regional and national legislators across seven European democracies redirect inquiries on m…
Political science (28 works) · Law (25 works) · Law (25 works) · Political Systems and Governance (25 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Politics (23 works) · Public Administration (18 works) · Public Administration (18 works) · Devolution (biology (15 works) · Scottish History and National Identity (14 works)