Richard Heffernan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4390615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Heffernan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Heffernan |
| SIGNATURE | HEFFERNAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Metropolitan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 179 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
UK party leaders are ‘preeminent’, but can also be ‘predominant’: Cameron and the Conservatives, 2005–2010
Labour's New Labour Legacy: Politics after Blair and Brown
The broad consequences of New Labour were that it won Labour three elections and put the party in government for thirteen years. Its most immediate legacies are twofold: first, the faltering economy and the sovereign debt crisis bequeathed to its successor; second, the electoral, ideational and organisational problems Labour itself has to face. The Blair and Brown governments never radically reformed the Thatcherite economic settlement but were, …
Perhaps, Over to You, Mr Cameron
Diarrheal Illness Detected Through Syndromic Surveillance After a Massive Power Outage: New York City, August 2003
Objectives. We investigated increases in diarrheal illness detected through syndromic surveillance after a power outage in New York City on August 14, 2003. Methods. The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene uses emergency department, pharmacy, and absentee data to conduct syndromic surveillance for diarrhea. We conducted a case–control investigation among patients presenting during August 16 to 18, 2003, to emergency departments …
The Prime Minister and the News Media: Political Communication as a Leadership Resource
The news media interest in political celebrity, backed up by the phenomenon of process journalism, magnifies the modern prime minister, placing him or her centre stage in key political processes. Tony Blair’s communication strategy has had two objectives. First, whenever possible, to try to secure favourable media coverage of the government. Second, to keep the government and its supporters on message while defining what that message is. Prime mi…
The British Prime Minister: Much More Than ‘First Among Equals’
Reviews a wide range of evidence to demonstrate three things. First, election campaigns have become more candidate-centered, with parties offering leaders greater prominence in their election campaigns and the media devoting greater attention to them. This development seems to have taken place since 1960, which coincides with the spread of mass access to television in Britain, and the erosion of class politics. Second, today’s major-party leaders…
A Space–Time Permutation Scan Statistic for Disease Outbreak Detection
BACKGROUND: The ability to detect disease outbreaks early is important in order to minimize morbidity and mortality through timely implementation of disease prevention and control measures. Many national, state, and local health departments are launching disease surveillance systems with daily analyses of hospital emergency department visits, ambulance dispatch calls, or pharmacy sales for which population-at-risk information is unavailable or ir…
Evaluation of school absenteeism data for early outbreak detection, New York City
Monitoring school absenteeism may be moderately useful for detecting large citywide epidemics, however, school-level data were noisy and we were unable to demonstrate any practical value in using cluster analysis to detect localized outbreaks. Based on these results, we will not implement prospective monitoring of school absenteeism data, but are evaluating the utility of more specific school-based data for outbreak detection
Exploring (and Explaining) the British Prime Minister
Institutions cannot be understood without exploring the actors who occupy them, while actors cannot be understood without examining the institutions they inhabit. Ultimately, the actions of both institutions and actors cannot be understood separate to the political, social and economic context within which they are located. Tony Blair, rightly cited as an example of a powerful prime minister, does not have a monopoly of power, but he does have an…
UK Privatisation Revisited: Ideas and Policy Change, 1979-92
Privatisation in the UK was facilitated by the interplay of ideas, institutions, actors, and economic interests. The motivations of the programme were ideational and political, but the objectives were economic and administrative. Together these paved the way for the success of the policy. Although several rationales were at play in the unfolding of privatisation, the ideological predilection of the Thatcher governments underpinned this far-reachi…
Prime Ministerial Predominance? Core Executive Politics in the UK
Prime ministerial predominance can enable the prime minister to lead, if not command, the core executive, and, in concert with others, to direct, if not control, its policy development. Leadership predominance facilitates prime ministerial predominance within the executive, and prime ministerial predominance reinforces leadership predominance within the party. Such predominance arises from the prime minister's ability to access a series of person…
Enhanced drop-in syndromic surveillance in New York City following September 11, 2001
The Possible as the Art of Politics: Understanding Consensus Politics
Drawing on the Kuhnian model of scientific paradigms, this article suggests consensus politics should be conceptualised not as an agreement or a settlement but as a political framework that derives from an ideationally informed policy paradigm. Such a consensus constrains the autonomy of governing elites, encouraging them to conform to an established policy agenda that defines the ‘mainstream’ wherein ‘the possible is the art of politics’. In Bri…
Beyond Euro‐scepticism: Exploring the Europeanisation of the Labour Party since 1983
Labour's Transformation: A Staged Process with No Single Point of Origin
Looking for one specific point of origin of the far reaching transformation of the Labour Party obscures rather than illuminates the complex process which lies behind its ideological self-redefinition. This response to Adam Lent's article in Politics Volume 17, ‘Labour's Transformation: Searching for the Point of Origin’, argues that the long march from the party of Michael Foot to that led by Tony Blair is more usefully explored in terms of a gr…
The enhancement of leadership power: The labour party and the impact of political communications
Blueprint for a revolution’? The politics of the Adam Smith institute
Elite centred, its target audience decision‐makers in Whitehall and Westminister, the Adam Smith Institute is as much a political actor as it is a genuine think tank. It has no wish to study the world in a detached scholarly fashion but offers instead normative policy recommendations based upon strict partisan world view. An organised advocate for the free market the Institute attempts to adopt a neo‐liberal ideological position. It is a policy a…
Bevier and Colleagues Respond
Bevier and Colleagues Respond Pamela Jean Bevier, Mary Ann Chiasson, and Richard T. Heffernan E J RankowCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.86.12.1823 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Women at a sexually transmitted disease clinic who reported same-sex contact: Their HIV seroprevalence and risk behaviors
OBJECTIVES. This study compares characteristics, behaviors, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in women who reported same-sex contact and women who had sex only with men. METHODS. Participants were patients attending a New York City sexually transmitted disease clinic. Structured questionnaires were administered by interviewers. RESULTS. Overall, 9% (135/1518) of women reported same-sex contact; among these, 93% also reported contac…
Prime Ministerial Predominance? Core Executive Politics in the UK
Prime ministerial predominance can enable the prime minister to lead, if not command, the core executive, and, in concert with others, to direct, if not control, its policy development. Leadership predominance facilitates prime ministerial predominance within the executive, and prime ministerial predominance reinforces leadership predominance within the party. Such predominance arises from the prime minister's ability to access a series of person…
Exploring (and Explaining) the British Prime Minister
Institutions cannot be understood without exploring the actors who occupy them, while actors cannot be understood without examining the institutions they inhabit. Ultimately, the actions of both institutions and actors cannot be understood separate to the political, social and economic context within which they are located. Tony Blair, rightly cited as an example of a powerful prime minister, does not have a monopoly of power, but he does have an…
The Prime Minister and the News Media: Political Communication as a Leadership Resource
The news media interest in political celebrity, backed up by the phenomenon of process journalism, magnifies the modern prime minister, placing him or her centre stage in key political processes. Tony Blair’s communication strategy has had two objectives. First, whenever possible, to try to secure favourable media coverage of the government. Second, to keep the government and its supporters on message while defining what that message is. Prime mi…
Women at a sexually transmitted disease clinic who reported same-sex contact: Their HIV seroprevalence and risk behaviors
OBJECTIVES. This study compares characteristics, behaviors, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in women who reported same-sex contact and women who had sex only with men. METHODS. Participants were patients attending a New York City sexually transmitted disease clinic. Structured questionnaires were administered by interviewers. RESULTS. Overall, 9% (135/1518) of women reported same-sex contact; among these, 93% also reported contac…
The Possible as the Art of Politics: Understanding Consensus Politics
Drawing on the Kuhnian model of scientific paradigms, this article suggests consensus politics should be conceptualised not as an agreement or a settlement but as a political framework that derives from an ideationally informed policy paradigm. Such a consensus constrains the autonomy of governing elites, encouraging them to conform to an established policy agenda that defines the ‘mainstream’ wherein ‘the possible is the art of politics’. In Bri…
Beyond Euro‐scepticism: Exploring the Europeanisation of the Labour Party since 1983
Labour's New Labour Legacy: Politics after Blair and Brown
The broad consequences of New Labour were that it won Labour three elections and put the party in government for thirteen years. Its most immediate legacies are twofold: first, the faltering economy and the sovereign debt crisis bequeathed to its successor; second, the electoral, ideational and organisational problems Labour itself has to face. The Blair and Brown governments never radically reformed the Thatcherite economic settlement but were, …
The enhancement of leadership power: The labour party and the impact of political communications
UK party leaders are ‘preeminent’, but can also be ‘predominant’: Cameron and the Conservatives, 2005–2010
Diarrheal Illness Detected Through Syndromic Surveillance After a Massive Power Outage: New York City, August 2003
Objectives. We investigated increases in diarrheal illness detected through syndromic surveillance after a power outage in New York City on August 14, 2003. Methods. The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene uses emergency department, pharmacy, and absentee data to conduct syndromic surveillance for diarrhea. We conducted a case–control investigation among patients presenting during August 16 to 18, 2003, to emergency departments …
UK Privatisation Revisited: Ideas and Policy Change, 1979-92
Privatisation in the UK was facilitated by the interplay of ideas, institutions, actors, and economic interests. The motivations of the programme were ideational and political, but the objectives were economic and administrative. Together these paved the way for the success of the policy. Although several rationales were at play in the unfolding of privatisation, the ideological predilection of the Thatcher governments underpinned this far-reachi…
Perhaps, Over to You, Mr Cameron
Enhanced drop-in syndromic surveillance in New York City following September 11, 2001
Blueprint for a revolution’? The politics of the Adam Smith institute
Elite centred, its target audience decision‐makers in Whitehall and Westminister, the Adam Smith Institute is as much a political actor as it is a genuine think tank. It has no wish to study the world in a detached scholarly fashion but offers instead normative policy recommendations based upon strict partisan world view. An organised advocate for the free market the Institute attempts to adopt a neo‐liberal ideological position. It is a policy a…
Women at a sexually transmitted disease clinic who reported same-sex contact: Their HIV seroprevalence and risk behaviors
OBJECTIVES. This study compares characteristics, behaviors, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in women who reported same-sex contact and women who had sex only with men. METHODS. Participants were patients attending a New York City sexually transmitted disease clinic. Structured questionnaires were administered by interviewers. RESULTS. Overall, 9% (135/1518) of women reported same-sex contact; among these, 93% also reported contac…
Blueprint for a revolution’? The politics of the Adam Smith institute
Elite centred, its target audience decision‐makers in Whitehall and Westminister, the Adam Smith Institute is as much a political actor as it is a genuine think tank. It has no wish to study the world in a detached scholarly fashion but offers instead normative policy recommendations based upon strict partisan world view. An organised advocate for the free market the Institute attempts to adopt a neo‐liberal ideological position. It is a policy a…
Bevier and Colleagues Respond
Bevier and Colleagues Respond Pamela Jean Bevier, Mary Ann Chiasson, and Richard T. Heffernan E J RankowCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.86.12.1823 Published Online: October 07, 2011
The enhancement of leadership power: The labour party and the impact of political communications
Labour's Transformation: A Staged Process with No Single Point of Origin
Looking for one specific point of origin of the far reaching transformation of the Labour Party obscures rather than illuminates the complex process which lies behind its ideological self-redefinition. This response to Adam Lent's article in Politics Volume 17, ‘Labour's Transformation: Searching for the Point of Origin’, argues that the long march from the party of Michael Foot to that led by Tony Blair is more usefully explored in terms of a gr…
Beyond Euro‐scepticism: Exploring the Europeanisation of the Labour Party since 1983
The Possible as the Art of Politics: Understanding Consensus Politics
Drawing on the Kuhnian model of scientific paradigms, this article suggests consensus politics should be conceptualised not as an agreement or a settlement but as a political framework that derives from an ideationally informed policy paradigm. Such a consensus constrains the autonomy of governing elites, encouraging them to conform to an established policy agenda that defines the ‘mainstream’ wherein ‘the possible is the art of politics’. In Bri…
Prime Ministerial Predominance? Core Executive Politics in the UK
Prime ministerial predominance can enable the prime minister to lead, if not command, the core executive, and, in concert with others, to direct, if not control, its policy development. Leadership predominance facilitates prime ministerial predominance within the executive, and prime ministerial predominance reinforces leadership predominance within the party. Such predominance arises from the prime minister's ability to access a series of person…
Enhanced drop-in syndromic surveillance in New York City following September 11, 2001
The British Prime Minister: Much More Than ‘First Among Equals’
Reviews a wide range of evidence to demonstrate three things. First, election campaigns have become more candidate-centered, with parties offering leaders greater prominence in their election campaigns and the media devoting greater attention to them. This development seems to have taken place since 1960, which coincides with the spread of mass access to television in Britain, and the erosion of class politics. Second, today’s major-party leaders…
A Space–Time Permutation Scan Statistic for Disease Outbreak Detection
BACKGROUND: The ability to detect disease outbreaks early is important in order to minimize morbidity and mortality through timely implementation of disease prevention and control measures. Many national, state, and local health departments are launching disease surveillance systems with daily analyses of hospital emergency department visits, ambulance dispatch calls, or pharmacy sales for which population-at-risk information is unavailable or ir…
Evaluation of school absenteeism data for early outbreak detection, New York City
Monitoring school absenteeism may be moderately useful for detecting large citywide epidemics, however, school-level data were noisy and we were unable to demonstrate any practical value in using cluster analysis to detect localized outbreaks. Based on these results, we will not implement prospective monitoring of school absenteeism data, but are evaluating the utility of more specific school-based data for outbreak detection
Exploring (and Explaining) the British Prime Minister
Institutions cannot be understood without exploring the actors who occupy them, while actors cannot be understood without examining the institutions they inhabit. Ultimately, the actions of both institutions and actors cannot be understood separate to the political, social and economic context within which they are located. Tony Blair, rightly cited as an example of a powerful prime minister, does not have a monopoly of power, but he does have an…
UK Privatisation Revisited: Ideas and Policy Change, 1979-92
Privatisation in the UK was facilitated by the interplay of ideas, institutions, actors, and economic interests. The motivations of the programme were ideational and political, but the objectives were economic and administrative. Together these paved the way for the success of the policy. Although several rationales were at play in the unfolding of privatisation, the ideological predilection of the Thatcher governments underpinned this far-reachi…
Diarrheal Illness Detected Through Syndromic Surveillance After a Massive Power Outage: New York City, August 2003
Objectives. We investigated increases in diarrheal illness detected through syndromic surveillance after a power outage in New York City on August 14, 2003. Methods. The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene uses emergency department, pharmacy, and absentee data to conduct syndromic surveillance for diarrhea. We conducted a case–control investigation among patients presenting during August 16 to 18, 2003, to emergency departments …
The Prime Minister and the News Media: Political Communication as a Leadership Resource
The news media interest in political celebrity, backed up by the phenomenon of process journalism, magnifies the modern prime minister, placing him or her centre stage in key political processes. Tony Blair’s communication strategy has had two objectives. First, whenever possible, to try to secure favourable media coverage of the government. Second, to keep the government and its supporters on message while defining what that message is. Prime mi…
Perhaps, Over to You, Mr Cameron
Labour's New Labour Legacy: Politics after Blair and Brown
The broad consequences of New Labour were that it won Labour three elections and put the party in government for thirteen years. Its most immediate legacies are twofold: first, the faltering economy and the sovereign debt crisis bequeathed to its successor; second, the electoral, ideational and organisational problems Labour itself has to face. The Blair and Brown governments never radically reformed the Thatcherite economic settlement but were, …
UK party leaders are ‘preeminent’, but can also be ‘predominant’: Cameron and the Conservatives, 2005–2010
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