The presidential dynamics of leadership decline in contemporary British politics
The illustrative case of Tony Blair
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6049771 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Foley (0000-0002-0900-9509, Aberystwyth University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 53-69 |
| Publication date | 2008-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9775 • E-ISSN: 1469-3631 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569770801913264 |
| OpenAlex | W2005082135 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 30 |
The presidential analogy has provided many explanatory insights into the contemporary development of the British premiership. Nevertheless, the usage of this analytical device is almost invariably confined to the establishment and consolidation of leadership. This article demonstrates that the presidential dimension has comparable utility in accounting for the erosion and decline of leadership. In examining the Blair premiership in relation to three signature themes of the American presidency – public outreach, personalized leadership, and democratic disjunction – the analysis reveals a set of dynamics that not only provides a vehicle for political opposition but largely predetermines the nature and formulation of that critique
Analogy · Consolidation (business · Democracy · Democratic consolidation · Democratization · Economics · Epistemology · Opposition (politics · Outreach · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Presidency · Presidential system · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Prime ministers as leaders
Gordon Brown and the role of compounded crisis in the pathology of leadership decline
Westminster’s wingman’? Shadow chancellor as a strategic and coveted political role
Democratic Political Leadership in the New Media Age
The Public Presidency and Disciplinary Presumptions
Assessing the policy effects of political leaders
Prime Ministerialisation and Presidential Analogies
All the President's Men
New Britain
The Presidentialization of Contemporary Democratic Politics
The Presidentialization of Politics in Democratic Societies
The British Prime Minister
Presidents, Prime Ministers and Chancellors
The Core Executive in Britain
An Affair of State
Media and the Presidentialization of Parliamentary Elections
Exploring (and Explaining) the British Prime Minister
Presidential Attribution as an Agency of Prime Ministerial Critique in a Parliamentary Democracy
Prime Ministerial Predominance? Core Executive Politics in the UK
The Presidency and the Prime Ministership as Institutions
The presidency and the political system
The Public Presidency
The Leadership Question
The White House Speaks
The Blair Style and the Requirements of Twenty‐first Century Premiership
Informality and Circumscription
Spin control
The Iraq Dossier and the Meaning of Spin
Minutes of Infamy? Hutton, Blair and the Invasion of Iraq
The Blair Government and the Core Executive
Election campaigning, organisational transformation and the professionalisation of the British Labour Party
| Citations per year | 0.47 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |