Timothy Heppell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4381429 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Heppell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Heppell |
| SIGNATURE | HEPPELL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9851-6993 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 362 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
A reply to ‘A toxic defence of a toxic legacy? Unpacking Boris Johnson’s evidence to the UK Covid-19 inquiry’ by Steven Kettell and Peter Kerr
Backing Badenoch: The Conservative Party Leadership Election of 2024
This article identifies and interprets the voting behaviour of Conservative parliamentarians in the 2024 leadership election which resulted in the election of Kemi Badenoch as leader of the Conservative Party. Our article utilizes an original dataset of the voting preferences of Conservative MPs alongside a range of personal, political, and ideological variables to identify the drivers for their voting preferences across the four eliminative parl…
Divisions within the British Parliamentary Labour Party under Keir Starmer: Results of a Cluster Analysis
This paper offers a methodologically innovative two-stage approach for studying divisions amongst parliamentary representatives. Using the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) as our case study, we construct a dataset of all Labour MPs elected in the 2019 general election, along with their nominations in the 2020 Labour Party leadership and deputy leadership elections and their membership of, or affiliation with, various party-aligned organisations. …
Trusting Truss: Conservative MPs’ Voting Preferences in the (First) British Conservative Party Leadership Election of 2022
This paper identifies the candidate preferences of Conservative parliamentarians in the final parliamentary ballot and the membership ballot of the Conservative Party leadership election of 2022. We code each parliamentarians’ candidate preference within a wider dataset on the parliamentary Conservative Party (PCP) and test a range of hypotheses covering the following: a). personal factors relating to gender, sexuality, ethnicity and education b)…
Party centralisation, internal cohesion and leadership security: How UK prime ministers compare to Japanese prime ministers
This article considers UK prime ministers as leaders of their political parties. It evaluates the extent to which the three trends identified by Uchiyama in this issue, in relation to Japanese prime ministers, are replicated in the case of UK prime ministers. First, to what extent is the Japanese trend towards increasing party centralisation replicated within the UK Labour and Conservative parties? Second, to what extent is the Japanese trend of …
Understanding prime ministerial leadership in the United Kingdom and Japan in the 21st century: Introduction to a special issue
The introduction to this special issue begins by presenting a recent puzzle – the increasingly strong position of the Japanese prime minister, who has traditionally been regarded as weak, in contrast to the increasingly fragile position of the United Kingdom prime minister, who has traditionally been regarded as strong. To make sense of these developments, the introduction reviews existing academic perspectives related to prime ministerial leader…
The Conservative Party Leadership Election of 2019: An Analysis of the Voting Motivations of Conservative Parliamentarians
This article provides an empirical analysis of the voting behaviour of Conservative parliamentarians in the final parliamentary ballot of the Conservative Party leadership election of 2019. We construct a dataset for the parliamentary Conservative Party and then put forward hypotheses that will consider the possible Eurosceptic, party political, economic and/or ideological motivations for the voting behaviour of Conservative parliamentarians in t…
The Labour Party leadership election: The Stark model and the selection of Keir Starmer
Prime Ministerial powers of patronage: Ideology and Cabinet selection under Margaret Thatcher 1979–1990
The British Labour Party and the antisemitism crisis: Jeremy Corbyn and image repair theory
This article utilises the work of William Benoit on image repair theory as a framework for examining the crisis communication of Jeremy Corbyn in relation to antisemitism within the Labour Party. By examining the self-defence rhetoric of Corbyn on the antisemitism allegations, the article identifies the following. Of the five strategies for crisis communication, Corbyn was overly reliant on denial, evading responsibility and reducing offensivenes…
Selecting Starmer: The Nomination Preferences of Labour Parliamentarians in the 2020 Labour Party Leadership Election
This article tests the nomination preferences of Labour parliamentarians in their 2020 leadership election against a range of individual, constituency and party-political based variables. From this our article produces the following three central findings. First, that the appeal of both Long-Bailey and Thornberry was narrow, and that they were competing for the support of Labour parliamentarians aligned to the Corbynista vote. Second, that the ap…
The Conservative Party Leadership Transition from Theresa May to Boris Johnson: Party Popularity and Leadership Satisfaction
This paper considers the Conservative Party leadership transition from Theresa May to Boris Johnson using the work of Leonard P. Stark (1996) on the impact of changing the party leader. We adapt the Stark framework for determining impact and using public opinion data on party popularity and leadership satisfaction. We place the transition from May to Johnson in a historical context by comparing it to the impact of leadership transitions within th…
Theresa May and the Conservative Party leadership confidence motion of 2018: Analysing the voting behaviour of Conservative Parliamentarians
Legitimising Euroscepticism? The construction, delivery and significance of the Bruges speech
This paper reassesses the construction, delivery and significance of the Bruges speech by Margaret Thatcher in 1988. Widely seen as a critical moment in the shift towards the legitimising of Euroscepticism, this paper exploits newly released archival material to analyse the internal dialogue between the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and her advisors as they constructed the speech. The paper then analyses how the speech was delivered and argues …
The Conservative Party Leadership Election of 2016: An Analysis of the Voting Motivations of Conservative Parliamentarians
This article provides the first systematic examination of the voting motivations of Conservative MPs in the final parliamentary ballot of the Conservative Party leadership election of 2016. We identify the voting behaviour of each Conservative parliamentarian as part of a unique data set that we use to test, through the use of multivariate analysis, a series of hypotheses based around social background variables (i.e. gender and education); polit…
The UK government and the 0.7% international aid target: Opinion among Conservative parliamentarians
This is the first article to use a detailed dataset of the 2010 - 2015 Parliamentary Conservative Party (PCP) to identify the drivers of MPs’ positions on legally enshrining a commitment to spend 0.7% of gross national income on foreign aid. We position every Conservative parliamentarian into three different categories on international aid - (1) aid critics, who openly opposed and/or voted the 0.7% target; (2) aid sceptics, who abstained in parli…
The United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: The Voting of Conservative Parliamentarians
This article considers the attitudes of members of the parliamentary Conservative Party (PCP) during the European Union (EU) membership referendum held in the United Kingdom (UK) on 23 June 2016. First, the article identifies the voting positions – remain or leave – of each Conservative parliamentarian in order to assess the strength of opinion within the PCP and place it within its historical context. Second, the article uses multivariate analys…
Rhetorical style and issue emphasis within the conference speeches of Ukip’s Nigel Farage 2010–2014
Conservative ministers in the Coalition government of 2010–15: Evidence of bias in the ministerial selections of David Cameron
The article uses a data set of the 2010–15 Parliamentary Conservative Party (PCP) to test a series of hypotheses in order to determine whether those selected for ministerial office during the coalition era were representative of the PCP as a whole. The findings show no significant associations or bias by Cameron in terms of age, schooling, regional base, morality, voting for Cameron in the Conservative Party leadership election and, most signific…
Comparing the Dynamics of Party Leadership Survival in Britain and Australia: Brown, Rudd and Gillard
This article examines the interaction between the respective party structures of the Australian Labor Party and the British Labour Party as a means of assessing the strategic options facing aspiring challengers for the party leadership. Noting the relative neglect within the scholarly literature of forced exits that occur and attempted forced exits that do not occur, this article takes as its case study the successful forced exits of Kevin Rudd a…
Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ speech: A rhetorical political analysis
Prime Ministerial Powers of Patronage: Ministerial Appointments and Dismissals Under Edward Heath
This article examines how Edward Heath utilised the Prime Ministerial power of ministerial appointment between 1970 and 1974. It does so within the context of the difficulties that Heath experienced in managing the ideological tensions within his party during his leadership tenure and his subsequent removal from the leadership of the Conservative Party in early 1975. Critically, by utilising Cabinet Office papers (PREM 5), the article demonstrate…
Thomas Quinn, Electing and ejecting party leaders in Britain, reviewed by Timothy Heppell
Ministerial Selection and Portfolio Allocation in the Cameron Government
This paper examines how David Cameron has utilised the Prime Ministerial power of ministerial selection and portfolio allocation within the context of the relationship between party expectations and coalition constraints. Specifically, the paper considers the significance to the Parliamentary Conservative Party of Cameron's use of patronage in terms of proportionality (numbers); portfolio distribution (prestige) and reshuffles (renegotiation of n…
Electing and Ejecting Party Leaders in Britain * Prime Ministers in Power: Political Leadership in Britain and Australia
Within the study of British politics there has been a recent upsurge in scholarly publications on political leadership. This may be because in an era of valence politics party identification is increasingly shaped through electoral judgements on the competence of the respective party leaders. The innovation that was the Prime Ministerial debates for the last general election reaffirmed the trend towards the personalities of respective party leade…
Cameron and Liberal Conservatism: Attitudes within the Parliamentary Conservative Party and Conservative Ministers
Research Highlights and Abstract This article: Contributes to the development of academic research on the internal dynamics of the Conservative Party under the leadership of David Cameron. Contributes to the development of academic research on the processes of ministerial selection within British Government. Contributes to the development of academic research on cohort effects within parties, and the analysis of comparisons and differences betwee…
The United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: The Voting of Conservative Parliamentarians
This article considers the attitudes of members of the parliamentary Conservative Party (PCP) during the European Union (EU) membership referendum held in the United Kingdom (UK) on 23 June 2016. First, the article identifies the voting positions – remain or leave – of each Conservative parliamentarian in order to assess the strength of opinion within the PCP and place it within its historical context. Second, the article uses multivariate analys…
Conservatism and feminism: The case of the British Conservative Party
This article explores the potential links and contradictions between conservatism and feminism in the light of the British Conservative Party's recent claim to 'ideological renewal' under David Cameron. It identifies a number of longstanding, significant and sometimes unexpected overlaps and resonances between some conservative ideas as these have developed in the party over time, and some elements of feminist thought. However, the article also a…
The Ideological Composition of the Parliamentary Conservative Party 1992–97
With the emphasis on loyalty and unity and an aversion to ideological disputation the Parliamentary Conservative Party (PCP) has traditionally been described as a party of tendencies, rather than factions. The Cowley and Norton study of the ideological and factional basis of rebellion argues that the 1992–97 PCP adhered to the party of tendencies definition. However, through the development of a new three-dimensional, eight-fold typology of Conse…
The Conservative Party Leadership Election of 2016: An Analysis of the Voting Motivations of Conservative Parliamentarians
This article provides the first systematic examination of the voting motivations of Conservative MPs in the final parliamentary ballot of the Conservative Party leadership election of 2016. We identify the voting behaviour of each Conservative parliamentarian as part of a unique data set that we use to test, through the use of multivariate analysis, a series of hypotheses based around social background variables (i.e. gender and education); polit…
The Voting Motivations of Conservative Parliamentarians in the Conservative Party Leadership Election of 2001
This article examines the voting motivations of Conservative parliamentarians in the final parliamentary ballot of the Conservative party leadership election of 2001. By constructing a data set of the voting behaviour of Conservative parliamentarians in the final parliamentary party ballot, this article seeks to test a series of hypotheses relating to the ideological disposition and political characteristics of the candidates vis-à-vis their elec…
Transcending Thatcherism? Ideology and the Conservative Party Leadership Mandate of David Cameron
This paper examines the voting motivations of Conservative parliamentarians in the final parliamentary ballot of the Conservative Party leadership election of 2005. By constructing a data set of the voting behaviour of Conservative parliamentarians in the final parliamentary party ballot, and by determining the ideological disposition of the 2005 PCP this paper examines the ideological disposition of the candidates' vis‐à‐vis their electorate. Th…
Sex, Gender and the Conservative Party: From Iron Lady to Kitten Heels
Sex, Gender and the Conservative Party: From Iron Lady to Kitten Heels by Sarah Childs and Paul Webb. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. pp. xiii + 299. £60.00, hb. ISBN: 9780230279001. The res
The Conservative Party Leadership Election of 1997: An Analysis of the Voting Motivations of Conservative Parliamentarians
We will not balance the books on the backs of the poorest people in the world’: Understanding Conservative Party Strategy on International Aid
The decision of the Conservative‐dominated coalition to ring‐fence international development spending has been, given the economic environment, one of most intriguing decisions of the new government. Recognising the relative neglect of academic work on Conservative policy towards international development, the article seeks to provide an explanation for its new‐found prioritisation. In doing so, the article suggests that it can be attributed to f…
Ministerial Selection and the Cameron Government: Female Ministerial Representation and the One-Third Objective
When he was leader of the opposition David Cameron announced that it was his intention that one-third of ministers would be female by the end of his first term in office. By considering the ministerial selection literature and identifying the traditional variables that influence ministerial selection, as well as the comparative coalition ministerial selection literature, this article will identify how (whilst numerically possible) there are numer…
The Quiet Man of British Politics: The Rise, Fall and Significance of Iain Duncan Smith
This article offers a reappraisal of the performance of Iain Duncan Smith as Conservative Party leader between 2001 and 2003. The rationale for the paper stems from the relative neglect of his leadership by political scientists. The paper argues that to disregard his party leadership tenure is to fail to understand the evolution of Conservative Party politics in the era of New Labour hegemony. Utilising a range of interviews with significant Cons…
Rhetorical style and issue emphasis within the conference speeches of Ukip’s Nigel Farage 2010–2014
Comparing the Dynamics of Party Leadership Survival in Britain and Australia: Brown, Rudd and Gillard
This article examines the interaction between the respective party structures of the Australian Labor Party and the British Labour Party as a means of assessing the strategic options facing aspiring challengers for the party leadership. Noting the relative neglect within the scholarly literature of forced exits that occur and attempted forced exits that do not occur, this article takes as its case study the successful forced exits of Kevin Rudd a…
The Conservative Party Leadership Election of 2019: An Analysis of the Voting Motivations of Conservative Parliamentarians
This article provides an empirical analysis of the voting behaviour of Conservative parliamentarians in the final parliamentary ballot of the Conservative Party leadership election of 2019. We construct a dataset for the parliamentary Conservative Party and then put forward hypotheses that will consider the possible Eurosceptic, party political, economic and/or ideological motivations for the voting behaviour of Conservative parliamentarians in t…
Ministerial Selection and Portfolio Allocation in the Cameron Government
This paper examines how David Cameron has utilised the Prime Ministerial power of ministerial selection and portfolio allocation within the context of the relationship between party expectations and coalition constraints. Specifically, the paper considers the significance to the Parliamentary Conservative Party of Cameron's use of patronage in terms of proportionality (numbers); portfolio distribution (prestige) and reshuffles (renegotiation of n…
How Michael Foot Won the Labour Party Leadership
This paper examines the voting motivations of Labour parliamentarians in the final parliamentary ballot of the Labour party leadership election of 1980. By constructing a data set of the voting behaviour of Labour parliamentarians and by determining the ideological disposition of the 1980 parliamentary Labour party (PLP) this paper examines the ideological disposition of the candidates' vis‐à‐vis their electorate, and offers a challenge to tradit…
Departmental Restructuring under New Labour
Despite their emphasis on joined up government, which was to be one of the defining features of the New Labour governing project, attempts to enhance policy delivery would also result in major departmental restructuring within each of their three terms in office. This article asks three questions with regard to the New Labour and departmental restructuring. First, from a historical comparative perspective was there a greater degree of departmenta…
Toxic Leadership: Applying the Lipman-Blumen Model to Political Leadership
The concept of toxic leadership has been popularised by the American academic, Jean Lipman-Blumen, who argued that some leaders demonstrate toxic tendencies that produce polarisation and division. Her ideas are better developed with regard to business leaders and have thus been located within the business academic literature. However, implicit within her analysis was the assumption that the concept of toxicity could be applied to prominent politi…
The Labour Party Leadership Election of 1963: Explaining the Unexpected Election of Harold Wilson
The failed attempts that Harold Wilson made to rest the Labour Party leadership from Hugh Gaitskell in 1960, and the Deputy Leadership from George Brown in 1962, had confirmed his reputation for disloyalty and divisiveness, and secured him the hostility of ‘social democratic right’. As they constituted the majority of the parliamentary Labour Party and ideology was assumed to be the dominant influence in any future party leadership contest, this …
Trusting Truss: Conservative MPs’ Voting Preferences in the (First) British Conservative Party Leadership Election of 2022
This paper identifies the candidate preferences of Conservative parliamentarians in the final parliamentary ballot and the membership ballot of the Conservative Party leadership election of 2022. We code each parliamentarians’ candidate preference within a wider dataset on the parliamentary Conservative Party (PCP) and test a range of hypotheses covering the following: a). personal factors relating to gender, sexuality, ethnicity and education b)…
Theresa May and the Conservative Party leadership confidence motion of 2018: Analysing the voting behaviour of Conservative Parliamentarians
Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ speech: A rhetorical political analysis
The conservative party leadership of David Cameron: Heresthetics and the realignment of British Politics
The UK government and the 0.7% international aid target: Opinion among Conservative parliamentarians
This is the first article to use a detailed dataset of the 2010 - 2015 Parliamentary Conservative Party (PCP) to identify the drivers of MPs’ positions on legally enshrining a commitment to spend 0.7% of gross national income on foreign aid. We position every Conservative parliamentarian into three different categories on international aid - (1) aid critics, who openly opposed and/or voted the 0.7% target; (2) aid sceptics, who abstained in parli…
Planning Social Welfare: The Hong Kong Experience
Social security and social welfare: A 'new look' from Hong Kong
Many things are associated with Hong Kong, but innovation in social security and social welfare is not one of them. Yet recent developments in Hong Kong are perhaps of more than local interest alone, not simply because Hong Kong has the advantage of virtually starting from scratch in developing social security but also because it has, by force of circumstance as well by inclination, had to look for what have been called 'Hong Kong solutions for H…
Social Security and Social Welfare: A 'New Look' from Hong Kong. Part Two
In an earlier article, the writer discussed the general background of social security and social welfare in Hong Kong; and went on to consider in particular what might usefully be learnt from the public assistance scheme as it has developed in Hong Kong. This article considers the other areas of social security in Hong Kong. It also touches on management control in social security
The Ideological Composition of the Parliamentary Conservative Party 1992–97
With the emphasis on loyalty and unity and an aversion to ideological disputation the Parliamentary Conservative Party (PCP) has traditionally been described as a party of tendencies, rather than factions. The Cowley and Norton study of the ideological and factional basis of rebellion argues that the 1992–97 PCP adhered to the party of tendencies definition. However, through the development of a new three-dimensional, eight-fold typology of Conse…
Ideological Typologies of Contemporary British Conservatism
Prior to the leadership of Margaret Thatcher, traditional academic assumptions about the British Conservative party focused on its emphasis on party unity, the centrality of loyalty to the party, and its ideological pragmatism in the pursuit of power. The leadership of her successor, John Major, was undermined by disunity, disloyalty and ideological conflict, which contributed to the Tory party's removal from power. The ideological implosion of o…
Ideology and Ministerial Allocation in the Major Government 1992–1997
This article evaluates the allocation of ministerial portfolios according to ideological disposition within the Major government of 1992–1997. By examining the ideological attitudes of Conservative parliamentarians towards three ideological variables – economic policy, European policy and social, sexual and moral policy – it will analyse the ideological balance of the government vis-à-vis the Parliamentary Conservative Party (PCP); the ideologica…
A Crisis of Legitimacy: The Conservative Party Leadership of John Major
This article evaluates the insecurity of tenure that John Major suffered as leader of the Conservative party. It offers a chronological narrative that demonstrates that for the duration of his tenure as leader of the Conservative party, Major lacked the necessary authority within the parliamentary Conservative party to ensure his legitimacy as Conservative party leader. A range of explanatory themes are explored such as the circumstances through …
Weak and Ineffective? Reassessing the Party Political Leadership of John Major
Interpretations on the party political leadership of John Major are dominated by perceptions of weakness and ineffectiveness. This article examines his party political leadership by considering the relationship between, first, his political ambitions, and, second, his style of political leadership. When evaluating the political ambitions of Major, the article will demonstrate that he was ideologically agnostic and a political pragmatist. When exa…
The Degenerative Tendencies of Long-Serving Governments … 1963 … 1996 … 2008
Journal Article The Degenerative Tendencies of Long-Serving Governments ... 1963 ... 1996 ... 2008? Get access Timothy Heppell Timothy Heppell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 61, Issue 4, October 2008, Pages 578–596, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsn023 Published: 07 July 2008
The Conservative Party Leadership Election of 1997: An Analysis of the Voting Motivations of Conservative Parliamentarians
Transcending Thatcherism? Ideology and the Conservative Party Leadership Mandate of David Cameron
This paper examines the voting motivations of Conservative parliamentarians in the final parliamentary ballot of the Conservative Party leadership election of 2005. By constructing a data set of the voting behaviour of Conservative parliamentarians in the final parliamentary party ballot, and by determining the ideological disposition of the 2005 PCP this paper examines the ideological disposition of the candidates' vis‐à‐vis their electorate. Th…
Ideological alignments within the parliamentary Labour Party and the leadership election of 1976
The Labour Party Leadership Election of 1963: Explaining the Unexpected Election of Harold Wilson
The failed attempts that Harold Wilson made to rest the Labour Party leadership from Hugh Gaitskell in 1960, and the Deputy Leadership from George Brown in 1962, had confirmed his reputation for disloyalty and divisiveness, and secured him the hostility of ‘social democratic right’. As they constituted the majority of the parliamentary Labour Party and ideology was assumed to be the dominant influence in any future party leadership contest, this …
Labour Leadership Elections From Wilson to Brown: Ideological Factions and Succession Planning Strategies
This paper examines the succession planning strategies deployed by ideological factions at the level of the parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) in party leadership elections since 1963. The paper seeks to evaluate the short term tactics and long term strategies pursued by the 'socialist left' and the 'social democratic right' to enhance the prospect of their faction securing the lineage on the party leadership. The analysis will be undertaken by con…
The Voting Motivations of Conservative Parliamentarians in the Conservative Party Leadership Election of 2001
This article examines the voting motivations of Conservative parliamentarians in the final parliamentary ballot of the Conservative party leadership election of 2001. By constructing a data set of the voting behaviour of Conservative parliamentarians in the final parliamentary party ballot, this article seeks to test a series of hypotheses relating to the ideological disposition and political characteristics of the candidates vis-à-vis their elec…
The Quiet Man of British Politics: The Rise, Fall and Significance of Iain Duncan Smith
This article offers a reappraisal of the performance of Iain Duncan Smith as Conservative Party leader between 2001 and 2003. The rationale for the paper stems from the relative neglect of his leadership by political scientists. The paper argues that to disregard his party leadership tenure is to fail to understand the evolution of Conservative Party politics in the era of New Labour hegemony. Utilising a range of interviews with significant Cons…
Conservatism and feminism: The case of the British Conservative Party
This article explores the potential links and contradictions between conservatism and feminism in the light of the British Conservative Party's recent claim to 'ideological renewal' under David Cameron. It identifies a number of longstanding, significant and sometimes unexpected overlaps and resonances between some conservative ideas as these have developed in the party over time, and some elements of feminist thought. However, the article also a…
How Michael Foot Won the Labour Party Leadership
This paper examines the voting motivations of Labour parliamentarians in the final parliamentary ballot of the Labour party leadership election of 1980. By constructing a data set of the voting behaviour of Labour parliamentarians and by determining the ideological disposition of the 1980 parliamentary Labour party (PLP) this paper examines the ideological disposition of the candidates' vis‐à‐vis their electorate, and offers a challenge to tradit…
Departmental Restructuring under New Labour
Despite their emphasis on joined up government, which was to be one of the defining features of the New Labour governing project, attempts to enhance policy delivery would also result in major departmental restructuring within each of their three terms in office. This article asks three questions with regard to the New Labour and departmental restructuring. First, from a historical comparative perspective was there a greater degree of departmenta…
Toxic Leadership: Applying the Lipman-Blumen Model to Political Leadership
The concept of toxic leadership has been popularised by the American academic, Jean Lipman-Blumen, who argued that some leaders demonstrate toxic tendencies that produce polarisation and division. Her ideas are better developed with regard to business leaders and have thus been located within the business academic literature. However, implicit within her analysis was the assumption that the concept of toxicity could be applied to prominent politi…
Cameron and Liberal Conservatism: Attitudes within the Parliamentary Conservative Party and Conservative Ministers
Research Highlights and Abstract This article: Contributes to the development of academic research on the internal dynamics of the Conservative Party under the leadership of David Cameron. Contributes to the development of academic research on the processes of ministerial selection within British Government. Contributes to the development of academic research on cohort effects within parties, and the analysis of comparisons and differences betwee…
From Crisis to Coalition: The Conservative Party in Opposition since 1997
From Crisis to Coalition: The Conservative Party in Opposition since 1997." Contemporary British History, 26(3), pp. 429–430
We will not balance the books on the backs of the poorest people in the world’: Understanding Conservative Party Strategy on International Aid
The decision of the Conservative‐dominated coalition to ring‐fence international development spending has been, given the economic environment, one of most intriguing decisions of the new government. Recognising the relative neglect of academic work on Conservative policy towards international development, the article seeks to provide an explanation for its new‐found prioritisation. In doing so, the article suggests that it can be attributed to f…
Ministerial Selection and the Cameron Government: Female Ministerial Representation and the One-Third Objective
When he was leader of the opposition David Cameron announced that it was his intention that one-third of ministers would be female by the end of his first term in office. By considering the ministerial selection literature and identifying the traditional variables that influence ministerial selection, as well as the comparative coalition ministerial selection literature, this article will identify how (whilst numerically possible) there are numer…
Sex, Gender and the Conservative Party: From Iron Lady to Kitten Heels
Sex, Gender and the Conservative Party: From Iron Lady to Kitten Heels by Sarah Childs and Paul Webb. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. pp. xiii + 299. £60.00, hb. ISBN: 9780230279001. The res
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