John Denham
Biographic Data
| ID | 4397523 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Denham |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Denham |
| SIGNATURE | DENHAM J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Economic, Social and Political Sciences, University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1716-5085 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Multicultural nationalism and the White English working class
The rise of national populism across the West – most prominently expressed in England by Reform UK and its predecessors, the UK Independence Party and the Brexit Party – poses a distinct challenge to prevailing models of integration and cohesion. Central to the party’s appeal is its ability to mobilise White working-class voters. While public discourses of multiculturalism rarely refer to the White working class, they may contribute to their alie…
Multicultural Nationalism
This article explores Labour's electoral response to the rise of Reform UK, whose recent local election gains and strong polling suggest significant appeal among white working class voters. Labour's apparent revival of ‘Blue Labour’ social conservatism—particularly on immigration—aims to reclaim this constituency, but risks alienating its liberal base, particularly as its more radical communitarianism has faded. The article argues that Labour's c…
England’s world
UK foreign policy is the product of the politics of a multi-nation state. Because of its size, politics and position in the constitutional imagination of UK decision makers, England dominates policy-making. Brexit showed how that domination can cause difficulties and tensions within the UK when a foreign policy issue becomes a domestic issue where English opinion is at odds with other parts of the UK. Despite this, analysis of English views and i…
Centralised by Design
The Labour manifesto in this year's election implied a radical restructuring of the UK state, the way in which England is governed and in relations across the United Kingdom. The aim of making English devolution the ‘default option’ is set against fifty years of unsuccessful and partial devolution initiatives which have failed to reverse the accretion of power in the central UK state. Centralisation can be seen as the consequence of an Anglocentr…
The Politics of England
Over two decades, voters who emphasised their English identity played an influential role in the rise of UKIP and the Brexit Party, the Brexit referendum and the election of Conservative governments—a trend overlooked in most electoral analyses. Using twenty years of data from the British Election Study and British Social Attitudes Survey, as well as recent original surveys, the article explores the evolving political behaviour of national identi…
Place-based Politics and Nested Deprivation in the U.K
‘Place-based explanations’ of politics in the UK draw on survey data to tell sweeping narratives about ‘Two Englands’, or of sizeable regions of the country that have been ‘Left Behind’, reinforcing popular accounts of a North-South or city-town divide. We introduce the concept of nested deprivation—deprivation that may occur in just one housing estate or even one row of flats within neighbourhoods that are otherwise affluent. We report on intens…
Mind the Values Gap
Minds the Values Gap, a report published by The UK in a Changing Europe, highlights the poor alignment of the values expressed within the major parties by their MPs and their activists, with those voters who support them. Voters as a whole tend to the left on economic values, and to the authoritarian on social values. Although the data imply that it is the social authoritarianism that defines both Leave voters and Labour–Conservative switchers, t…
England, Englishness and the Labour Party
Recent research has indicated that English identity was a strong predictor for a Leave vote in the referendum on membership of the European Union, and that it is an identity that is increasingly playing a role in British politics. In this paper, we explore whether Englishness affects even left‐right positioning of parties. Focusing on Labour, we find that it does, even controlling for other attitudinal and demographic variables. Alongside age and…
A New Progressive Patriotism
The need to hold capital to account and to bend markets to the common good is as powerful as ever, yet it is becoming steadily harder to create an electoral or political majority for such an idea in societies that are fractured and divided. The fundamental bond between voters and parties depends on political identity relationships; old ones are fading, new ones need to be created. The most dynamic politics in advanced capitalist societies are tho…
Reappraising New Labour's Political Economy
The NGO Attitude to Debt Reduction
John Denham's article describes why European non?governmental organisations (NGO's) give so much attention to the debt problem and its negative effects on poverty in developing countries. It also describes the European NGO's campaign on debt. RESUME L'attitude des NGO envers la réduction du déficit L'article de John Denham décrit les raisons pour lesquelles les organisations non?gouvernementales (NGO) donnent autant d'importance au problème du dé…
Duration of Stay in Hospital of Patients suffering from Schizophrenia
During recent years many changes in methods of treatment and in administrative policies have been introduced into mental hospitals. There has been a more intensive use of the physical treatments, cul minating in the present preoccupation with the ataraxic drugs. Parallel with this has been the development of habit-training methods, group psychotherapy, the open door policy, and the therapeutic community. Finally, discharge policy has been altered…
Place-based Politics and Nested Deprivation in the U.K
‘Place-based explanations’ of politics in the UK draw on survey data to tell sweeping narratives about ‘Two Englands’, or of sizeable regions of the country that have been ‘Left Behind’, reinforcing popular accounts of a North-South or city-town divide. We introduce the concept of nested deprivation—deprivation that may occur in just one housing estate or even one row of flats within neighbourhoods that are otherwise affluent. We report on intens…
The Politics of England
Over two decades, voters who emphasised their English identity played an influential role in the rise of UKIP and the Brexit Party, the Brexit referendum and the election of Conservative governments—a trend overlooked in most electoral analyses. Using twenty years of data from the British Election Study and British Social Attitudes Survey, as well as recent original surveys, the article explores the evolving political behaviour of national identi…
A New Progressive Patriotism
The need to hold capital to account and to bend markets to the common good is as powerful as ever, yet it is becoming steadily harder to create an electoral or political majority for such an idea in societies that are fractured and divided. The fundamental bond between voters and parties depends on political identity relationships; old ones are fading, new ones need to be created. The most dynamic politics in advanced capitalist societies are tho…
Centralised by Design
The Labour manifesto in this year's election implied a radical restructuring of the UK state, the way in which England is governed and in relations across the United Kingdom. The aim of making English devolution the ‘default option’ is set against fifty years of unsuccessful and partial devolution initiatives which have failed to reverse the accretion of power in the central UK state. Centralisation can be seen as the consequence of an Anglocentr…
England’s world
UK foreign policy is the product of the politics of a multi-nation state. Because of its size, politics and position in the constitutional imagination of UK decision makers, England dominates policy-making. Brexit showed how that domination can cause difficulties and tensions within the UK when a foreign policy issue becomes a domestic issue where English opinion is at odds with other parts of the UK. Despite this, analysis of English views and i…
England, Englishness and the Labour Party
Recent research has indicated that English identity was a strong predictor for a Leave vote in the referendum on membership of the European Union, and that it is an identity that is increasingly playing a role in British politics. In this paper, we explore whether Englishness affects even left‐right positioning of parties. Focusing on Labour, we find that it does, even controlling for other attitudinal and demographic variables. Alongside age and…
Reappraising New Labour's Political Economy
Duration of Stay in Hospital of Patients suffering from Schizophrenia
During recent years many changes in methods of treatment and in administrative policies have been introduced into mental hospitals. There has been a more intensive use of the physical treatments, cul minating in the present preoccupation with the ataraxic drugs. Parallel with this has been the development of habit-training methods, group psychotherapy, the open door policy, and the therapeutic community. Finally, discharge policy has been altered…
The NGO Attitude to Debt Reduction
John Denham's article describes why European non?governmental organisations (NGO's) give so much attention to the debt problem and its negative effects on poverty in developing countries. It also describes the European NGO's campaign on debt. RESUME L'attitude des NGO envers la réduction du déficit L'article de John Denham décrit les raisons pour lesquelles les organisations non?gouvernementales (NGO) donnent autant d'importance au problème du dé…
Reappraising New Labour's Political Economy
A New Progressive Patriotism
The need to hold capital to account and to bend markets to the common good is as powerful as ever, yet it is becoming steadily harder to create an electoral or political majority for such an idea in societies that are fractured and divided. The fundamental bond between voters and parties depends on political identity relationships; old ones are fading, new ones need to be created. The most dynamic politics in advanced capitalist societies are tho…
England, Englishness and the Labour Party
Recent research has indicated that English identity was a strong predictor for a Leave vote in the referendum on membership of the European Union, and that it is an identity that is increasingly playing a role in British politics. In this paper, we explore whether Englishness affects even left‐right positioning of parties. Focusing on Labour, we find that it does, even controlling for other attitudinal and demographic variables. Alongside age and…
Mind the Values Gap
Minds the Values Gap, a report published by The UK in a Changing Europe, highlights the poor alignment of the values expressed within the major parties by their MPs and their activists, with those voters who support them. Voters as a whole tend to the left on economic values, and to the authoritarian on social values. Although the data imply that it is the social authoritarianism that defines both Leave voters and Labour–Conservative switchers, t…
Place-based Politics and Nested Deprivation in the U.K
‘Place-based explanations’ of politics in the UK draw on survey data to tell sweeping narratives about ‘Two Englands’, or of sizeable regions of the country that have been ‘Left Behind’, reinforcing popular accounts of a North-South or city-town divide. We introduce the concept of nested deprivation—deprivation that may occur in just one housing estate or even one row of flats within neighbourhoods that are otherwise affluent. We report on intens…
The Politics of England
Over two decades, voters who emphasised their English identity played an influential role in the rise of UKIP and the Brexit Party, the Brexit referendum and the election of Conservative governments—a trend overlooked in most electoral analyses. Using twenty years of data from the British Election Study and British Social Attitudes Survey, as well as recent original surveys, the article explores the evolving political behaviour of national identi…
Centralised by Design
The Labour manifesto in this year's election implied a radical restructuring of the UK state, the way in which England is governed and in relations across the United Kingdom. The aim of making English devolution the ‘default option’ is set against fifty years of unsuccessful and partial devolution initiatives which have failed to reverse the accretion of power in the central UK state. Centralisation can be seen as the consequence of an Anglocentr…
Multicultural Nationalism
This article explores Labour's electoral response to the rise of Reform UK, whose recent local election gains and strong polling suggest significant appeal among white working class voters. Labour's apparent revival of ‘Blue Labour’ social conservatism—particularly on immigration—aims to reclaim this constituency, but risks alienating its liberal base, particularly as its more radical communitarianism has faded. The article argues that Labour's c…
England’s world
UK foreign policy is the product of the politics of a multi-nation state. Because of its size, politics and position in the constitutional imagination of UK decision makers, England dominates policy-making. Brexit showed how that domination can cause difficulties and tensions within the UK when a foreign policy issue becomes a domestic issue where English opinion is at odds with other parts of the UK. Despite this, analysis of English views and i…
Multicultural nationalism and the White English working class
The rise of national populism across the West – most prominently expressed in England by Reform UK and its predecessors, the UK Independence Party and the Brexit Party – poses a distinct challenge to prevailing models of integration and cohesion. Central to the party’s appeal is its ability to mobilise White working-class voters. While public discourses of multiculturalism rarely refer to the White working class, they may contribute to their alie…
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