Taking the Temperature of the UK's Political Elite
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6312264 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Kenny (0000-0002-4797-5169, University of Sheffield, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 149-161 |
| Publication date | 2008-10-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Parliamentary Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-2290 • E-ISSN: 1460-2482 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pa/gsn046 |
| OpenAlex | W2012167606 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
THIS series of commentary pieces will alight on some of the major developments and issues in contemporary British party politics and public debate. The rationales that will inform the focus of each contribution are a mixture of the following: (1) the intention to focus on very recent or on-going developments; (2) an interest in providing analysis and commentary from a vantage point that is slightly closer to political action and debate than is normally the case with the articles published by academic journals such as this; and (3) the ambition to excavate or analyse the role of political ideas and thinking in relation to important developments, even when these are buried beneath thickets of interests, calculation and tactics. If pressed to identify an overarching question linking these contributions, I would point to the venerable and still contentious one: do ideas matter in British politics? Before I proceed to the first substantive discussion, let me explain the thinking behind these three intentions. The first reflects the rationale for this slot within this journal. A commentary space allows for a more responsive and up-to-date discussion of emerging developments or major themes than scholarly journals can normally provide. I have always liked the idea of such a niche, which occupies an interesting and under-explored space, somewhere between the kinds of pieces knocked out by well-known members of the ‘commentariat’ and the academic essay, typically laden with the paraphernalia of professional accreditation—theory, hypothesis and abundant references. There is a good case for encouraging professional analysts of politics to write and reflect in more immediate and less formal ways upon events and trends in the political world, as complements to the more worked-through academic work that we do
Elite · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |