Agnès Alexandre‐collier
Biographic Data
| ID | 4449858 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Agnès Alexandre‐collier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Agnès |
| FAMILY NAME | Alexandre‐collier |
| SIGNATURE | COLLIER A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Bourgogne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6339-5474 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
“Pale, Male, More Local and Less Vocal”
Candidate selection is one of the key strategies used by parties to shape the face of their representatives in Westminster. With the prospect of an election defeat, some of the Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidates (known as PPCs) are not only expected to be the party’s future MPs but also an indicator of both the pools of voters the party intends to target and the ideological line it will adopt once in opposition. Candidate selection…
Ethnic minority MPs, Conservative Party modernisation, and post-Brexit narratives of Global Britain
Since 2016, the ‘rhetoric of ‘Global Britain’ has assumed a central position in Conservative Party attempts to articulate a post-Brexit vision. This article identifies and examines four key narratives of Global Britain – cultural, affective, functionalist, and idealised – spotlighting the interventions of ethnic minority MPs (excluding white minorities). It does so as a notable and hitherto largely overlooked legacy of the Conservative modernisat…
Nick Timothy, Remaking One Nation. The Future of Conservatism
De prime abord, il n’est pas aisé de comprendre ce que cherche à démontrer Nick Timothy dans cet ouvrage paru en 2020. L’ancien directeur de campagne de Theresa May, farouche partisan d’un conservatisme ouvrier (« blue-collar conservatism »), admirateur inconditionnel de Joseph Chamberlain — le maire de Birmingham qui, dans les années 1870, prônait un impérialisme teinté de réformisme social — nous livre ici un ouvrage qui oscille entre l’autobio…
Friend or Foe?’
This article explores the extent of anti‐French rhetoric in Conservative parliamentary discourse since 2016. It argues that up to the end of Liz Truss's extremely brief period of power, a fair number of Conservative MPs embarked on an escalation of tabloid‐like anti‐French bashing after the election of Boris Johnson, in an attempt to mimic the dramaturgy staged by their leader, while those who tried to provide a more positive discourse were left …
David Cameron, Boris Johnson and the ‘populist hypothesis’ in the British Conservative Party
Brexit and Anti-Parliament Discourses among Conservative MPs (2016–2019)
Brexit seems to have produced a new form of narrative in the Conservative Party in which some Conservative MPs brand themselves first and foremost as representatives of ‘the people’. Following on from the 2016 EU referendum, a new discourse has become prominent in the party and has also been developed as a new critique of the British Parliament. An analysis of Hansard debates between July 2016 and December 2019 helps identify different forms of a…
De la prise de parole et la défection à l’expulsion
La discussion des modalités concrètes du Brexit a été une épreuve sans précédent pour l’unité du groupe parlementaire conservateur. Cet article questionne les effets de cet épisode sur les règles de la discipline partisane. Si la crise de Maastricht avait permis aux députés rebelles de « prendre la parole » face à un gouvernement favorable au traité et fait émerger une faction eurosceptique, la turbulence occasionnée par les débats autour du Brex…
The nested games of the UK’s EU referendum
The 2016 decision by the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union was a seminal one for both parties. In this special issue, we consider the extent to which the inter-penetration of the national and the European arenas produced significant opportunities for recasting political action. The nesting of these two levels matters firstly in allowing for the politicisation and mobilisation of domestic actors around European issues and secondly…
Women and the Politics of Incivility and Discrimination
International audience
The post-referendum reconfigurations of conservative cleavages around black and Asian minority ethnic MPs
At the level of the Conservative parliamentary party, one of the main effects of Brexit has been a realignment of party cleavages. While the old cleavage between Europhiles and Eurosceptics is no longer relevant and a new cleavage has appeared between soft and hard Brexiteers, this political upheaval has thus restructured Conservative ideological pluralism in the parliamentary party. Following a study of the 2015 intake of MPs who were supposedly…
From Rebellion to Extinction
This article examines the process of extinction of former remainer Conservative MPs who followed different paths in the run‐up to the 2019 general election: either choosing to stay loyal and merge with the rest of the parliamentary party, or to express their discontent and leave the party. When they chose to rebel against the leadership, only a small minority dared to vindicate their position. The other rebels constantly played down their identit…
Less Stale, Only Slightly Less Male, but Overwhelmingly Less Pale
This article will study the new face of Conservative Euroscepticism in the House of Commons, with a special focus on the 2015 intake of MPs who were supposedly ‘less stale, male and pale’ and their attitudes to the British referendum on the EU. In this respect, this article will also take a specific interest in new Conservative Black and Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) MPs who turned out to be more active on the ‘leave’ side of the referendum campai…
The ‘Open Garden of Politics’
Since 2003, hundreds of open primaries for the selection of parliamentary candidates have been held by the British Conservative Party as a means of democratising party organisation and enhancing representativeness. In the run-up to the 2015 general election, only 26 primaries could be identified. This article will apply the analytical framework provided by Hazan and Rahat to demonstrate that the relative failure of the experiment in terms of intr…
La nouvelle carte électorale du conservatisme européen
Les élections européennes de juin 2009 ont vu la très nette victoire des partis de la droite modérée. Cette nouvelle « vague bleue » si elle affirme l’hégémonie des droites sur les gauches, redessine aussi la carte du conservatisme européen. Dans un contexte de crise sociale et économique, ces résultats posent question : pourquoi les défenseurs du libéralisme économique réussissent si bien partout en Europe au détriment des forces progressistes ?…
La Grande-Bretagne eurosceptique? L'Europe dans le debat politique britannique
Le phénomène eurosceptique au sein du parti conservateur britannique
Au lendemain de la ratification du traité de Maastricht, l'euroscepticisme au sein du Parti conservateur se définit non seulement comme un discours à l'égard de l'intégration européenne mais également comme un comportement parlementaire distinct. En tant que discours, l'euroscepticisme, fondé sur les valeurs thatchériennes du libéralisme économique et de l'indépendance nationale, s'articule autour de la défense du nationalisme, de la démocratie e…
La Grande-Bretagne et l'Europe
The ‘Open Garden of Politics’
Since 2003, hundreds of open primaries for the selection of parliamentary candidates have been held by the British Conservative Party as a means of democratising party organisation and enhancing representativeness. In the run-up to the 2015 general election, only 26 primaries could be identified. This article will apply the analytical framework provided by Hazan and Rahat to demonstrate that the relative failure of the experiment in terms of intr…
David Cameron, Boris Johnson and the ‘populist hypothesis’ in the British Conservative Party
From Rebellion to Extinction
This article examines the process of extinction of former remainer Conservative MPs who followed different paths in the run‐up to the 2019 general election: either choosing to stay loyal and merge with the rest of the parliamentary party, or to express their discontent and leave the party. When they chose to rebel against the leadership, only a small minority dared to vindicate their position. The other rebels constantly played down their identit…
Brexit and Anti-Parliament Discourses among Conservative MPs (2016–2019)
Brexit seems to have produced a new form of narrative in the Conservative Party in which some Conservative MPs brand themselves first and foremost as representatives of ‘the people’. Following on from the 2016 EU referendum, a new discourse has become prominent in the party and has also been developed as a new critique of the British Parliament. An analysis of Hansard debates between July 2016 and December 2019 helps identify different forms of a…
Friend or Foe?’
This article explores the extent of anti‐French rhetoric in Conservative parliamentary discourse since 2016. It argues that up to the end of Liz Truss's extremely brief period of power, a fair number of Conservative MPs embarked on an escalation of tabloid‐like anti‐French bashing after the election of Boris Johnson, in an attempt to mimic the dramaturgy staged by their leader, while those who tried to provide a more positive discourse were left …
Less Stale, Only Slightly Less Male, but Overwhelmingly Less Pale
This article will study the new face of Conservative Euroscepticism in the House of Commons, with a special focus on the 2015 intake of MPs who were supposedly ‘less stale, male and pale’ and their attitudes to the British referendum on the EU. In this respect, this article will also take a specific interest in new Conservative Black and Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) MPs who turned out to be more active on the ‘leave’ side of the referendum campai…
The post-referendum reconfigurations of conservative cleavages around black and Asian minority ethnic MPs
At the level of the Conservative parliamentary party, one of the main effects of Brexit has been a realignment of party cleavages. While the old cleavage between Europhiles and Eurosceptics is no longer relevant and a new cleavage has appeared between soft and hard Brexiteers, this political upheaval has thus restructured Conservative ideological pluralism in the parliamentary party. Following a study of the 2015 intake of MPs who were supposedly…
La Grande-Bretagne et l'Europe
Le phénomène eurosceptique au sein du parti conservateur britannique
Au lendemain de la ratification du traité de Maastricht, l'euroscepticisme au sein du Parti conservateur se définit non seulement comme un discours à l'égard de l'intégration européenne mais également comme un comportement parlementaire distinct. En tant que discours, l'euroscepticisme, fondé sur les valeurs thatchériennes du libéralisme économique et de l'indépendance nationale, s'articule autour de la défense du nationalisme, de la démocratie e…
La Grande-Bretagne eurosceptique? L'Europe dans le debat politique britannique
La nouvelle carte électorale du conservatisme européen
Les élections européennes de juin 2009 ont vu la très nette victoire des partis de la droite modérée. Cette nouvelle « vague bleue » si elle affirme l’hégémonie des droites sur les gauches, redessine aussi la carte du conservatisme européen. Dans un contexte de crise sociale et économique, ces résultats posent question : pourquoi les défenseurs du libéralisme économique réussissent si bien partout en Europe au détriment des forces progressistes ?…
The ‘Open Garden of Politics’
Since 2003, hundreds of open primaries for the selection of parliamentary candidates have been held by the British Conservative Party as a means of democratising party organisation and enhancing representativeness. In the run-up to the 2015 general election, only 26 primaries could be identified. This article will apply the analytical framework provided by Hazan and Rahat to demonstrate that the relative failure of the experiment in terms of intr…
Less Stale, Only Slightly Less Male, but Overwhelmingly Less Pale
This article will study the new face of Conservative Euroscepticism in the House of Commons, with a special focus on the 2015 intake of MPs who were supposedly ‘less stale, male and pale’ and their attitudes to the British referendum on the EU. In this respect, this article will also take a specific interest in new Conservative Black and Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) MPs who turned out to be more active on the ‘leave’ side of the referendum campai…
The post-referendum reconfigurations of conservative cleavages around black and Asian minority ethnic MPs
At the level of the Conservative parliamentary party, one of the main effects of Brexit has been a realignment of party cleavages. While the old cleavage between Europhiles and Eurosceptics is no longer relevant and a new cleavage has appeared between soft and hard Brexiteers, this political upheaval has thus restructured Conservative ideological pluralism in the parliamentary party. Following a study of the 2015 intake of MPs who were supposedly…
From Rebellion to Extinction
This article examines the process of extinction of former remainer Conservative MPs who followed different paths in the run‐up to the 2019 general election: either choosing to stay loyal and merge with the rest of the parliamentary party, or to express their discontent and leave the party. When they chose to rebel against the leadership, only a small minority dared to vindicate their position. The other rebels constantly played down their identit…
De la prise de parole et la défection à l’expulsion
La discussion des modalités concrètes du Brexit a été une épreuve sans précédent pour l’unité du groupe parlementaire conservateur. Cet article questionne les effets de cet épisode sur les règles de la discipline partisane. Si la crise de Maastricht avait permis aux députés rebelles de « prendre la parole » face à un gouvernement favorable au traité et fait émerger une faction eurosceptique, la turbulence occasionnée par les débats autour du Brex…
The nested games of the UK’s EU referendum
The 2016 decision by the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union was a seminal one for both parties. In this special issue, we consider the extent to which the inter-penetration of the national and the European arenas produced significant opportunities for recasting political action. The nesting of these two levels matters firstly in allowing for the politicisation and mobilisation of domestic actors around European issues and secondly…
Women and the Politics of Incivility and Discrimination
International audience
David Cameron, Boris Johnson and the ‘populist hypothesis’ in the British Conservative Party
Brexit and Anti-Parliament Discourses among Conservative MPs (2016–2019)
Brexit seems to have produced a new form of narrative in the Conservative Party in which some Conservative MPs brand themselves first and foremost as representatives of ‘the people’. Following on from the 2016 EU referendum, a new discourse has become prominent in the party and has also been developed as a new critique of the British Parliament. An analysis of Hansard debates between July 2016 and December 2019 helps identify different forms of a…
Nick Timothy, Remaking One Nation. The Future of Conservatism
De prime abord, il n’est pas aisé de comprendre ce que cherche à démontrer Nick Timothy dans cet ouvrage paru en 2020. L’ancien directeur de campagne de Theresa May, farouche partisan d’un conservatisme ouvrier (« blue-collar conservatism »), admirateur inconditionnel de Joseph Chamberlain — le maire de Birmingham qui, dans les années 1870, prônait un impérialisme teinté de réformisme social — nous livre ici un ouvrage qui oscille entre l’autobio…
Friend or Foe?’
This article explores the extent of anti‐French rhetoric in Conservative parliamentary discourse since 2016. It argues that up to the end of Liz Truss's extremely brief period of power, a fair number of Conservative MPs embarked on an escalation of tabloid‐like anti‐French bashing after the election of Boris Johnson, in an attempt to mimic the dramaturgy staged by their leader, while those who tried to provide a more positive discourse were left …
“Pale, Male, More Local and Less Vocal”
Candidate selection is one of the key strategies used by parties to shape the face of their representatives in Westminster. With the prospect of an election defeat, some of the Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidates (known as PPCs) are not only expected to be the party’s future MPs but also an indicator of both the pools of voters the party intends to target and the ideological line it will adopt once in opposition. Candidate selection…
Ethnic minority MPs, Conservative Party modernisation, and post-Brexit narratives of Global Britain
Since 2016, the ‘rhetoric of ‘Global Britain’ has assumed a central position in Conservative Party attempts to articulate a post-Brexit vision. This article identifies and examines four key narratives of Global Britain – cultural, affective, functionalist, and idealised – spotlighting the interventions of ethnic minority MPs (excluding white minorities). It does so as a notable and hitherto largely overlooked legacy of the Conservative modernisat…
Political science (16 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political and Economic history of UK and US (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Brexit (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · European union (6 works)