Nick Randall
Biographic Data
| ID | 4390906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Randall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Randall |
| SIGNATURE | RANDALL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0655-674X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Using social media to communicate competence, ordinariness, and authenticity in political leadership
Understanding how political leaders use social media during election campaigns is a growing area of research, with existing literature focussing on single-election examinations of platform usage (Smith 2021). This paper instead conducts a longitudinal examination of political leadership on Twitter/X at the 2015, 2017, and 2019 UK general elections, focussing on the different ways in which leaders portray their competence, ordinariness, and authen…
What kind of discipline are we? A network analysis of British Politics
Research on British politics has traditionally been too reliant on a single model for understanding its field of inquiry—initially the Westminster model and then, since the 2000s, the governance-focused ‘differentiated polity model’. It has also been criticised for being preoccupied by the institutions that make up the Westminster system in terms of its substantive analytical focus, neglecting theory and international comparisons, failing to lear…
Theresa May’s disjunctive premiership
Theresa May’s premiership is widely acknowledged to have been a failure, but political commentators and the scholarly literature have, thus far, tended to focus on May’s misuse of her agency. This article argues that May’s premiership presents a particularly powerful example of the need to disentangle structure and agency when assessing prime ministerial performance. Drawing upon the work of Stephen Skowronek, it sets out a framework of evaluatin…
Evaluating British prime ministerial performance
This article contributes to the developing literature on prime ministerial performance in the United Kingdom by applying a critical reading of Stephen Skowronek’s account of leadership in ‘political time’ to evaluate David Cameron’s premiership. This, we propose, better understands the inter-relationship of structure and agency in prime ministerial performance than existing frameworks, particularly those based on Greenstein’s and Bulpitt’s approa…
Imagining the Polity
Journal Article Imagining the Polity: Cinema and Television Fictions as Vernacular Theories of British Politics Get access Nick Randall Nick Randall School of Geography, Politics and SociologyNewcastle University40–42 Great North RoadNewcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RUUK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 2, April 2011, Pages 263–280, https://doi.org/10.10…
Time and British politics
No Friends in the North? The Conservative Party in Northern England
Having won just 19 of 162 seats in northern England at the 2005 general election, the Conservative party under David Cameron's leadership has made an electoral revival in the north of England a particular priority. This article first outlines the Conservatives' post‐war electoral record in the north and considers the significance of northern England to the party's strategy at the next general election. It then moves on to examine the potential fo…
Cast from the same pro-european mould
By pragmatically but positively engaging with European integration and by devolving power to new institutions in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland the 'New Labour' government elected in 1997 has firmly established the conditions for a system of 'multilevel governance' in the UK. Using survey data collected among Labour Members of Parliament, Members of the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly, this article explores whether these institut…
Celtic Exceptionalism? Scottish and Welsh Parliamentarians’ Attitudes to Europe
Imagining the Polity
Journal Article Imagining the Polity: Cinema and Television Fictions as Vernacular Theories of British Politics Get access Nick Randall Nick Randall School of Geography, Politics and SociologyNewcastle University40–42 Great North RoadNewcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RUUK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 2, April 2011, Pages 263–280, https://doi.org/10.10…
Theresa May’s disjunctive premiership
Theresa May’s premiership is widely acknowledged to have been a failure, but political commentators and the scholarly literature have, thus far, tended to focus on May’s misuse of her agency. This article argues that May’s premiership presents a particularly powerful example of the need to disentangle structure and agency when assessing prime ministerial performance. Drawing upon the work of Stephen Skowronek, it sets out a framework of evaluatin…
Evaluating British prime ministerial performance
This article contributes to the developing literature on prime ministerial performance in the United Kingdom by applying a critical reading of Stephen Skowronek’s account of leadership in ‘political time’ to evaluate David Cameron’s premiership. This, we propose, better understands the inter-relationship of structure and agency in prime ministerial performance than existing frameworks, particularly those based on Greenstein’s and Bulpitt’s approa…
Time and British politics
No Friends in the North? The Conservative Party in Northern England
Having won just 19 of 162 seats in northern England at the 2005 general election, the Conservative party under David Cameron's leadership has made an electoral revival in the north of England a particular priority. This article first outlines the Conservatives' post‐war electoral record in the north and considers the significance of northern England to the party's strategy at the next general election. It then moves on to examine the potential fo…
Celtic Exceptionalism? Scottish and Welsh Parliamentarians’ Attitudes to Europe
Cast from the same pro-european mould
By pragmatically but positively engaging with European integration and by devolving power to new institutions in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland the 'New Labour' government elected in 1997 has firmly established the conditions for a system of 'multilevel governance' in the UK. Using survey data collected among Labour Members of Parliament, Members of the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly, this article explores whether these institut…
Celtic Exceptionalism? Scottish and Welsh Parliamentarians’ Attitudes to Europe
Time and British politics
No Friends in the North? The Conservative Party in Northern England
Having won just 19 of 162 seats in northern England at the 2005 general election, the Conservative party under David Cameron's leadership has made an electoral revival in the north of England a particular priority. This article first outlines the Conservatives' post‐war electoral record in the north and considers the significance of northern England to the party's strategy at the next general election. It then moves on to examine the potential fo…
Imagining the Polity
Journal Article Imagining the Polity: Cinema and Television Fictions as Vernacular Theories of British Politics Get access Nick Randall Nick Randall School of Geography, Politics and SociologyNewcastle University40–42 Great North RoadNewcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RUUK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 2, April 2011, Pages 263–280, https://doi.org/10.10…
Evaluating British prime ministerial performance
This article contributes to the developing literature on prime ministerial performance in the United Kingdom by applying a critical reading of Stephen Skowronek’s account of leadership in ‘political time’ to evaluate David Cameron’s premiership. This, we propose, better understands the inter-relationship of structure and agency in prime ministerial performance than existing frameworks, particularly those based on Greenstein’s and Bulpitt’s approa…
Theresa May’s disjunctive premiership
Theresa May’s premiership is widely acknowledged to have been a failure, but political commentators and the scholarly literature have, thus far, tended to focus on May’s misuse of her agency. This article argues that May’s premiership presents a particularly powerful example of the need to disentangle structure and agency when assessing prime ministerial performance. Drawing upon the work of Stephen Skowronek, it sets out a framework of evaluatin…
What kind of discipline are we? A network analysis of British Politics
Research on British politics has traditionally been too reliant on a single model for understanding its field of inquiry—initially the Westminster model and then, since the 2000s, the governance-focused ‘differentiated polity model’. It has also been criticised for being preoccupied by the institutions that make up the Westminster system in terms of its substantive analytical focus, neglecting theory and international comparisons, failing to lear…
Using social media to communicate competence, ordinariness, and authenticity in political leadership
Understanding how political leaders use social media during election campaigns is a growing area of research, with existing literature focussing on single-election examinations of platform usage (Smith 2021). This paper instead conducts a longitudinal examination of political leadership on Twitter/X at the 2015, 2017, and 2019 UK general elections, focussing on the different ways in which leaders portray their competence, ordinariness, and authen…
Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political and Economic history of UK and US (6 works) · Irish and British Studies (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Scottish History and National Identity (4 works) · Social science (4 works)