Pete Dorey
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 357753 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Pete Dorey |
| PRENOMES | Pete |
| SOBRENOME | Dorey |
| ASSINATURA | DOREY P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5213-644X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 119 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The Conservatives’ discursive defence of Britain’s constitution and political institutions
The Conservative Party and the closed shop
The 1970–74 Conservative Government was strongly committed to enacting industrial relations legislation which would simultaneously grant workers the right to belong or not to belong to a trade union, provide for legally enforceable collective agreements and facilitate more stable industrial relations by enhancing the authority of trade unions over their members. The associated 1971 Industrial Relations Act was therefore intended both to enhance t…
Binary rhetoric and divisive discourses on the populist Right
Right-wing populism entails discursive divisions both between ‘the people’ and ‘the elite’, and between ‘the majority’ in society and ‘minorities’. In both instances, the former are attributed with positive attributes and characteristics, while the latter are invariably ascribed negative connotations and qualities, to the extent of being portrayed as inimical to ‘the people’ or ‘the majority’, and possible even a threat to national identity or se…
Things Fall Apart, the Centre-Right Cannot Hold
The Conservative Party’s victory in the 2019 general election was mainly due to specific short-term factors that masked the long-term problems bequeathed by decades of Thatcherite radicalism. Since the 1980s, Conservative governments, in thrall to neoliberalism and ‘the market’, have pursued a relentless unconservative assault on Britain’s civic institutions and increased anxiety, insecurity, and precarity among much of the middle-class. Far from…
Conciliation, Co-operation, and Consensus
Although the relationship between the Conservative Party and the trade unions has often been characterised by mutual distrust and hostility, there was a unique period, from 1945 until the early 1960s, when senior Conservatives pursued a conciliatory and constructive approach to the trade unions, and insisted that harmonious industrial relations could not be secured by punitive legislation or political diktats. Instead, the paternalistic One Natio…
Elected or Selected? The Continuing Constitutional Conundrum of House of Lords Reform
The 1911 Parliament Act decreed that Lords reform was ‘an urgent question which brooks no delay’, yet the subsequent 112 years have witnessed only sporadic and inchoate reforms. The issue has invariably suffered both from interparty disagreement between the Conservatives and Labour and, more importantly, intraparty disagreements owing to the divergent views and irreconcilable disagreements among Labour MPs over ‘what is to be done?’, and recognit…
Spatial patterns of Covid-19 and non-Covid-19 mortality across waves of infection in England, Wales, and Scotland
Recent studies have established the key individual-level risk factors of COVID-19 mortality such as age, gender, ethnicity, and socio-economic status. However, the spread of infectious diseases is a spatial and temporal process implying that COVID-19 mortality and its determinants may vary sub-nationally and over time. We investigate the spatial patterns of age-standardised death rates due to COVID-19 and their correlates across local authority d…
Policy Concertation and Social Partnership in Western Europe
Policy concertation - the determination of public policy by means of agreements struck between governments, employers and trade unions - continues to thrive in Western Europe despite the impact of liberalizing trends that were expected to lead to its demise. This volume brings together a team of 23 experts with the aim to undertake paired historical and political studies of policy concertation in ten West European countries, which were then subje…
Explaining Brexit
Although support for Britain’s withdrawal in the 2016 Referendum emanated from all sections of society, it was much stronger and prevalent among specific socio-economic and demographic cohorts, namely older citizens, people who had received a minimal formal education in their youth, and those on low incomes. These were the citizens who had benefited the least, and whose communities had suffered the most, from four decades of deindustrialisation, …
Infection rates from Covid-19 in Great Britain by geographical units
Don’t intervene, don’t get involved’
Britain’s Conservative Party has traditionally had a reputation for being hostile towards the trade unions, but the period from 1951 to 1964 was remarkable for the extent to which most of the Conservative leadership sought to cultivate the trust and cooperation of Britain’s trade unions. To the dismay of many on the Party’s right, Conservative Ministers consistently refused to introduce industrial relations legislation or statutory curbs on the i…
Towards Exit from the EU
Since the 1980s, Britain’s Conservative Party has become increasingly critical of the European Union, and of the country’s membership of it. So contentious and controversial has this issue become that it was a significant factor in the downfall of three consecutive Conservative Prime Ministers, all of whom found it increasingly difficult to manage their Party in Parliament, and thereby maintain any semblance of Party unity. Initially, during the …
Jeremy Corbyn confounds his critics
Tales of the unexpected
The Longest Suicide Vote in History’
Should I stay or should I go?’
A farewell to alms
The Blunders of Our Governments
King and Crewe’s objective in The Blunders of Our Governments is to examine the scale of ‘blunders’ committed by successive British governments during the last three decades, and to offer explanati
The weaker-willed, the craven-hearted’
For most of the period from 1945 until the 1970s, the official policy of the Conservative Party reflected a ‘One Nation’ approach to politics. Dominating the higher echelons of the party, representatives of this tradition prided themselves on a pragmatic outlook which enabled them to accept much of the policy framework bequeathed by the 1945–1951 Labour Governments led by Clement Attlee: the public ownership of several major industries (such as c…
The rhetoric of neoliberalism in the politics of crisis
This is a reply to: \n \nCrines, Andrew Scott. 2015. “The rhetoric of neoliberalism in the politics of crisis.” Global Discourse. 5 (1): 116–129. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2014.922360
Well, Harold Insists on Having It!’—The Political Struggle to Establish The Open University, 1965–67
The establishment of The Open University has been widely lauded as Harold Wilson's most successful policy achievement and his enduring legacy, a view with which Wilson himself concurred, although the policy itself was mostly drafted and developed by Jennie Lee, as Minister for the Arts, albeit based in the Department of Education and Science (DES). Wilson depicted The Open University as a major symbol of the Labour Party's commitment to modernisa…
Neo‐liberal Ideology
The Conservatives since 1945
By Tim Bale Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012, 384 pp., £55.00, ISBN 978-0-19-923437-0 (hbk) Although political science has long enshrined a major sub-discipline concerning theories of party ch
No such thing as the ‘Big Society’? The Conservative Party's unnecessary search for ‘narrative’ in the 2010 general election
O, brother, where art thou?’ The Labour Party leadership election of 2010
A Tale of Two Speeches? The Conservative Leadership Election of 2005
A New Direction or Another False Dawn? David Cameron and the Crisis of British Conservatism
Jeremy Corbyn confounds his critics
O, brother, where art thou?’ The Labour Party leadership election of 2010
A Poverty of Imagination
Inequality in Britain today is now so deep that the top 10 per cent own 100 times more than the bottom 10 per cent, yet there is remarkably little public concern or anger about poverty. Indeed, compassion and concern for the poorest in society has actually declined in recent years due to the continued, and even increased, prevalence of the view that poverty is largely caused by laziness and lack of willpower, or is simply an unavoidable fact of m…
Sharing the Proceeds of Growth’
Upon becoming Conservative leader, David Cameron, and his Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne, initially sought to compete with Labour by pledging increased expenditure on education and the NHS, and thereby insisting that tax cuts would have to wait. Rather than cutting taxation overall, the emphasis was on restructuring and simplifying Britain's tax system, and shifting the burden towards the better off, mainly thorough promoting environmental tax…
The Longest Suicide Vote in History’
The ‘Caretaker’ Cleans Up
IN March 2006, Sir Menzies Campbell defeated Simon Hughes and Christopher Huhne to win the Liberal Democrats' leadership contest, which had been occasioned by Charles Kennedy's resignation. Although Sir Menzies' victory was not entirely unexpected, the scale of it was somewhat greater than anticipated. This article examines not only the conduct of the leadership contest, and the extent to which the candidates campaigned primarily according to wha…
Faltering before the finishing line
Towards Exit from the EU
Since the 1980s, Britain’s Conservative Party has become increasingly critical of the European Union, and of the country’s membership of it. So contentious and controversial has this issue become that it was a significant factor in the downfall of three consecutive Conservative Prime Ministers, all of whom found it increasingly difficult to manage their Party in Parliament, and thereby maintain any semblance of Party unity. Initially, during the …
The Labour Party and House of Lords Reform
Throughout its one hundred year history, the Labour Party has never been able to agree on how the House of Lords should be reformed. On those occasions when Labour parliamentarians have sought to devise a package of reforms, most notably in 1949, 1969 and since 1999, they have discovered that each potential measure to change the composition or power of the House of Lords raises other potential problems. For example, a more democratic or represent…
Tales of the unexpected
No such thing as the ‘Big Society’? The Conservative Party's unnecessary search for ‘narrative’ in the 2010 general election
The exhaustion of a tradition
1996). The exhaustion of a tradition: The death of ‘one nation’ Toryism. Contemporary Politics: Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 47-65
Binary rhetoric and divisive discourses on the populist Right
Right-wing populism entails discursive divisions both between ‘the people’ and ‘the elite’, and between ‘the majority’ in society and ‘minorities’. In both instances, the former are attributed with positive attributes and characteristics, while the latter are invariably ascribed negative connotations and qualities, to the extent of being portrayed as inimical to ‘the people’ or ‘the majority’, and possible even a threat to national identity or se…
Infection rates from Covid-19 in Great Britain by geographical units
Attention to Detail
Since 2001 (if not since 1997) the Conservative party has struggled to develop a coherent set of policies with which to provide a credible alternative to the Blair government. A second successive crushing election defeat fuelled the ongoing debates in the Conservative party, between those who were convinced of the need to steer towards the centre ground, thereby reviving the Conservative's 'one nation' tradition, and those who wanted to place cle…
Things Fall Apart, the Centre-Right Cannot Hold
The Conservative Party’s victory in the 2019 general election was mainly due to specific short-term factors that masked the long-term problems bequeathed by decades of Thatcherite radicalism. Since the 1980s, Conservative governments, in thrall to neoliberalism and ‘the market’, have pursued a relentless unconservative assault on Britain’s civic institutions and increased anxiety, insecurity, and precarity among much of the middle-class. Far from…
The weaker-willed, the craven-hearted’
For most of the period from 1945 until the 1970s, the official policy of the Conservative Party reflected a ‘One Nation’ approach to politics. Dominating the higher echelons of the party, representatives of this tradition prided themselves on a pragmatic outlook which enabled them to accept much of the policy framework bequeathed by the 1945–1951 Labour Governments led by Clement Attlee: the public ownership of several major industries (such as c…
The rhetoric of neoliberalism in the politics of crisis
This is a reply to: \n \nCrines, Andrew Scott. 2015. “The rhetoric of neoliberalism in the politics of crisis.” Global Discourse. 5 (1): 116–129. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2014.922360
Well, Harold Insists on Having It!’—The Political Struggle to Establish The Open University, 1965–67
The establishment of The Open University has been widely lauded as Harold Wilson's most successful policy achievement and his enduring legacy, a view with which Wilson himself concurred, although the policy itself was mostly drafted and developed by Jennie Lee, as Minister for the Arts, albeit based in the Department of Education and Science (DES). Wilson depicted The Open University as a major symbol of the Labour Party's commitment to modernisa…
Individual Liberty Versus Industrial Order
Although the Conservative Party was always ideologically antipathetic towards compulsory trade union membership, in the guise of the ‘closed shop’, it was not until the 1980s that it finally succeeded in outlawing this aspect of British trade unionism. Hitherto, the Conservatives had sought to secure a balance between two conflicting stances: instinctive and ideological abhorrence at the denial of individual liberty which the trade union closed s…
Stumbling Through ‘Stage Two’
Meeting the Challenge’? The Liberal Democrats' Policy Review of 2005–2006
Even before the 2005 election, the Liberal Democrats’ Federal Policy Committee had agreed on the need for a review of party policy, in response both to domestic and international political developments since 2001. Intended to build upon the 2002 policy document ‘It's About Freedom’, 2005 heralded the launch of a Meeting the Challenge policy review, which provided an unprecedented opportunity for party members at all levels to contribute towards t…
Just the Ticket? The Labour Party's Deputy Leadership Election of 2007
Although there were six contenders for Labour's Deputy Leadership contest, it was conducted with remarkably little personal animosity. Nor, for the most part, were there substantive policy differences between the challengers, with the notable exception of the Iraq War. As such, the main differences between the candidates derived from their differing perceptions of the role of the Deputy Leader, and what they would each contribute to the post if e…
One Step at a Time
The exhaustion of a tradition
1996). The exhaustion of a tradition: The death of ‘one nation’ Toryism. Contemporary Politics: Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 47-65
The Major Premiership
This book examines the politics and policies of the Major governments from 1990 to 1997. It examines how and why the Major governments sought to reform the civil service, local government, education
The labour party and the problems of creating a ‘representative’ house of lords
The conservatives’ performance in the 2001 general election
2001). The conservatives’ performance in the 2001 general election. Representation: Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 204-212
Wage Politics in Britain
This text provides a comprehensive and in-depth account of the history of incomes policies in post-war Britain, detailing in particular attempts at securing wage restraint pursued by each government up to 1979, and how and why incomes policies were abandoned thereafter
Between ambivalence and antipathy
This article locates New Labour's apparent willingness to consider electoral reform for Westminster elections in historical context, drawing attention to the Labour Party's overall antipathy towards such reform during most of the twentieth century. The article then illustrates that with regard to the issue of electoral reform. New Labour is not actually that ‘new’, and that many in the party remain resistant to abandoning the first‐past‐the‐post …
Attention to Detail
Since 2001 (if not since 1997) the Conservative party has struggled to develop a coherent set of policies with which to provide a credible alternative to the Blair government. A second successive crushing election defeat fuelled the ongoing debates in the Conservative party, between those who were convinced of the need to steer towards the centre ground, thereby reviving the Conservative's 'one nation' tradition, and those who wanted to place cle…
Policy Making in Britain
A Tale of Two Speeches? The Conservative Leadership Election of 2005
The Conservative Party's Performance in the 2005 General Election
The Labour Party and House of Lords Reform
Throughout its one hundred year history, the Labour Party has never been able to agree on how the House of Lords should be reformed. On those occasions when Labour parliamentarians have sought to devise a package of reforms, most notably in 1949, 1969 and since 1999, they have discovered that each potential measure to change the composition or power of the House of Lords raises other potential problems. For example, a more democratic or represent…
A New Direction or Another False Dawn? David Cameron and the Crisis of British Conservatism
Meeting the Challenge’? The Liberal Democrats' Policy Review of 2005–2006
Even before the 2005 election, the Liberal Democrats’ Federal Policy Committee had agreed on the need for a review of party policy, in response both to domestic and international political developments since 2001. Intended to build upon the 2002 policy document ‘It's About Freedom’, 2005 heralded the launch of a Meeting the Challenge policy review, which provided an unprecedented opportunity for party members at all levels to contribute towards t…
Just the Ticket? The Labour Party's Deputy Leadership Election of 2007
Although there were six contenders for Labour's Deputy Leadership contest, it was conducted with remarkably little personal animosity. Nor, for the most part, were there substantive policy differences between the challengers, with the notable exception of the Iraq War. As such, the main differences between the candidates derived from their differing perceptions of the role of the Deputy Leader, and what they would each contribute to the post if e…
The Welsh Assembly Election 2007
The outcome of the 2007 Welsh Assembly election was largely inconclusive, to the extent that while the Labour Party suffered a definite decline in support, it remained the single largest party. Pla
The ‘Caretaker’ Cleans Up
IN March 2006, Sir Menzies Campbell defeated Simon Hughes and Christopher Huhne to win the Liberal Democrats' leadership contest, which had been occasioned by Charles Kennedy's resignation. Although Sir Menzies' victory was not entirely unexpected, the scale of it was somewhat greater than anticipated. This article examines not only the conduct of the leadership contest, and the extent to which the candidates campaigned primarily according to wha…
Stumbling Through ‘Stage Two’
It really was rather disgraceful. Still, that is politics
The 1964—70 Labour Governments were formally committed to a major expansion and reorganization of education in Britain, at both secondary and higher levels. Alongside the commitment to `comprehensivisation' of secondary schools and the expansion of universities, Labour was also committed to raising the school leaving age from 15 to 16. However, the increasingly severe economic problems that affected Britain from 1966 onwards, culminating in deval…
Individual Liberty Versus Industrial Order
Although the Conservative Party was always ideologically antipathetic towards compulsory trade union membership, in the guise of the ‘closed shop’, it was not until the 1980s that it finally succeeded in outlawing this aspect of British trade unionism. Hitherto, the Conservatives had sought to secure a balance between two conflicting stances: instinctive and ideological abhorrence at the denial of individual liberty which the trade union closed s…
Change in Order to Conserve
The introduction of life peers in 1958 represented the 20th century's most significant change in the composition of the house of lords, until the removal of (most) hereditary peers in 1999. Yet the 1958 reform was introduced by a Conservative government which was under no discernible pressure to do so, least of all by its own back benchers. Yet the Conservative leadership in both houses of parliament decided to seize the initiative on house of lo…
Sharing the Proceeds of Growth’
Upon becoming Conservative leader, David Cameron, and his Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne, initially sought to compete with Labour by pledging increased expenditure on education and the NHS, and thereby insisting that tax cuts would have to wait. Rather than cutting taxation overall, the emphasis was on restructuring and simplifying Britain's tax system, and shifting the burden towards the better off, mainly thorough promoting environmental tax…
Ahead of his time
Faltering before the finishing line
NGOs in Contemporary Britain
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