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The Effect of Observable Party Cohesion on Voter Choice in Liberal Democracies
PhD in Political Science The effect of observable party cohesion on voter choice in liberal democracies. Candidate David Jack Barrett Supervisor Michael Gallagher September 2017 2 Declaration I declare that this thesis has not been submitted as an exercise for a degree at this or any other university and it is entirely my own work. I agree to deposit this thesis in the University’s open access institutional repository or allow the library to do so on my behalf, subject to Irish Copyright Legislation and Trinity College Library conditions of use and acknowledgement. Date Signature 3 Acknowledgements This thesis would not have been possible without the help of a large number of people, and I would like to take the opportunity to express my thanks and gratitude to them. First, my supervisor Michael Gallagher has truly been extraordinarily helpful, providing comments and feedback at every point in the last four years, often at quite short notice. His encouragement and advice both on this thesis, but also in teaching and to attending conferences has always been wonderful. Certainly no one could have asked for a more patient and forgiving supervisor. This thesis would have been impossible without the financial support provided by the Irish Research Council (IRC) and by the Department of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin. My work is deeply in the debt of many scholars. James Davidson in the University of Exeter though, especially, provided me with much of the data used in Chapter Five in this thesis that he had gathered for his own research, and answered my endless questions regarding it, without which this research would have been impossible. -
FDN-274688 Disclosure
FDN-274688 Disclosure MP Total Adam Afriyie 5 Adam Holloway 4 Adrian Bailey 7 Alan Campbell 3 Alan Duncan 2 Alan Haselhurst 5 Alan Johnson 5 Alan Meale 2 Alan Whitehead 1 Alasdair McDonnell 1 Albert Owen 5 Alberto Costa 7 Alec Shelbrooke 3 Alex Chalk 6 Alex Cunningham 1 Alex Salmond 2 Alison McGovern 2 Alison Thewliss 1 Alistair Burt 6 Alistair Carmichael 1 Alok Sharma 4 Alun Cairns 3 Amanda Solloway 1 Amber Rudd 10 Andrea Jenkyns 9 Andrea Leadsom 3 Andrew Bingham 6 Andrew Bridgen 1 Andrew Griffiths 4 Andrew Gwynne 2 Andrew Jones 1 Andrew Mitchell 9 Andrew Murrison 4 Andrew Percy 4 Andrew Rosindell 4 Andrew Selous 10 Andrew Smith 5 Andrew Stephenson 4 Andrew Turner 3 Andrew Tyrie 8 Andy Burnham 1 Andy McDonald 2 Andy Slaughter 8 FDN-274688 Disclosure Angela Crawley 3 Angela Eagle 3 Angela Rayner 7 Angela Smith 3 Angela Watkinson 1 Angus MacNeil 1 Ann Clwyd 3 Ann Coffey 5 Anna Soubry 1 Anna Turley 6 Anne Main 4 Anne McLaughlin 3 Anne Milton 4 Anne-Marie Morris 1 Anne-Marie Trevelyan 3 Antoinette Sandbach 1 Barry Gardiner 9 Barry Sheerman 3 Ben Bradshaw 6 Ben Gummer 3 Ben Howlett 2 Ben Wallace 8 Bernard Jenkin 45 Bill Wiggin 4 Bob Blackman 3 Bob Stewart 4 Boris Johnson 5 Brandon Lewis 1 Brendan O'Hara 5 Bridget Phillipson 2 Byron Davies 1 Callum McCaig 6 Calum Kerr 3 Carol Monaghan 6 Caroline Ansell 4 Caroline Dinenage 4 Caroline Flint 2 Caroline Johnson 4 Caroline Lucas 7 Caroline Nokes 2 Caroline Spelman 3 Carolyn Harris 3 Cat Smith 4 Catherine McKinnell 1 FDN-274688 Disclosure Catherine West 7 Charles Walker 8 Charlie Elphicke 7 Charlotte -
New Ministerial Team at the Department of Health
New Ministerial Team at the Department of Health The Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP Secretary of State for Health Alan Johnson was first elected to Parliament in 1997 as the Member for Kingston upon Hull. A former postman, Alan Johnson served as a former General Secretary of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and is one of the largest trade union names to have entered Parliament in recent decades. Often credited with the much coveted tag of being an "ordinary bloke", he is highly articulate and effective and is credited with the successful campaign that deterred the previous Conservative government from privatising the Post Office. Popular among his peers, Alan Johnson is generally regarded to be on the centre right of the Labour Party and is well regarded by the Labour leadership. As a union member of Labour's ruling NEC (up to 1996) he was seen as supportive of Tony Blair's attempts to modernise the Labour Party. He was the only senior union leader to back the abolition of Labour's clause IV. He becomes the first former union leader to become a cabinet minister in nearly 40 years when he is appointed to the Work and Pensions brief in 2004. After moving to Trade and Industry, he becomes Education and Skills Secretary in May 2006. After being tipped by many as the front-runner in the Labour deputy leadership contest of 2007, Alan Johnson was narrowly beaten by Harriet Harman. Commons Career PPS to Dawn Primarolo: as Financial Secretary, HM Treasury 1997-99, as Paymaster General, HM Treasury 1999; Department of Trade and Industry 1999-2003: -
Articulate Engage Word Output
Question Time 26 October 2008 Questions 1. The Russian billionaire who has dominated the politics news this week is... ( )Ola Deprinol ( )Roman Duprioskvi ( )Oleg Deripaska ( )Yuri Gudanov 2. The Defence Secretary says Britain will win the war against the Taleban in Afghanistan. Who is he? ( )Ed Miliband ( )Lord Falconer ( )Des Browne ( )John Hutton 3. Ten years of which government has been dismissed as "a big disappointment" by academics? ( )Transport policy ( )Defence policy ( )Education policy ( )Foreign policy 4. Which minister was pulled at the last minute from BBC One's Question Time? ( )Alistair Darling ( )Phil Woolas ( )George Osborne ( )Harriet Harman 5. Where is the by-election on 6 November 2008? ( )Orpington ( )Dunfries ( )Bermondsey South ( )Glenrothes www.tutor2u.net 6. Gordon Brown called for an inquiry into what during PMQ's? ( )Bonuses paid to UK bankers ( )George Osborne's fundraising meetings ( )Why there is only one Competition ( )Voter fraud in local elections Commission 7. How did Nathaniel Rothschild break the news about George Osborne's meetings in Corfu? ( )He wrote to The Times ( )He wrote on his blog ( )He wrote on his Facebook page ( )He appeared on TV-AM 8. This picture of George Osborne at Oxford has re-emerged this week. Which group was he a part of? ( )Old Boys Touring Club ( )Notting Hill Club ( )Bullingdon Club ( )Varsity Club 9. Why did Barack Obama take two days away from the campaign trail? ( )To visit his ill grandmother ( )To prepare his post-election action plan ( )He had the flu ( )He had lost his voice 10. Alan Johnson, the health secretary, has announced he will lift the ban on. -
Labour's Last Fling on Constitutional Reform
| THE CONSTITUTION UNIT NEWSLETTER | ISSUE 43 | SEPTEMBER 2009 | MONITOR LABOUR’S LAST FLING ON CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN THIS ISSUE Gordon Brown’s bold plans for constitutional constitutional settlement …We will work with the reform continue to be dogged by bad luck and bad British people to deliver a radical programme of PARLIAMENT 2 - 3 judgement. The bad luck came in May, when the democratic and constitutional reform”. MPs’ expenses scandal engulfed Parliament and government and dominated the headlines for a Such rhetoric also defies political reality. There is EXECUTIVE 3 month. The bad judgement came in over-reacting a strict limit on what the government can deliver to the scandal, promising wide ranging reforms before the next election. The 2009-10 legislative which have nothing to do with the original mischief, session will be at most six months long. There PARTIES AND ELECTIONS 3-4 and which have limited hope of being delivered in is a risk that even the modest proposals in the the remainder of this Parliament. Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill will not pass. It was not introduced until 20 July, DEVOLUTION 4-5 The MPs’ expenses scandal broke on 8 May. As the day before the House rose for the summer the Daily Telegraph published fresh disclosures recess. After a year’s delay, the only significant day after day for the next 25 days public anger additions are Part 3 of the bill, with the next small HUMAN RIGHTS 5 mounted. It was not enough that the whole steps on Lords reform (see page 2); and Part 7, to issue of MPs’ allowances was already being strengthen the governance of the National Audit investigated by the Committee on Standards in Office. -
Survey Report
R YouGov/ Sunday Times Survey Results YouGov Sample Size: 1755 Fieldwork: 10th - 11th April 2008 For detailed results, click here % Headline Voting Intention [Excluding Don't Knows and Wouldn't Votes] Con 44 Lab 28 Lib Dem 17 Other 11 Do you think Gordon Brown is doing well or badly as prime minister? Very well 2 Fairly well 26 Fairly badly 37 Very badly 28 Don’t know 7 Do you think David Cameron is doing well or badly as Conservative leader? Very well 7 Fairly well 44 Fairly badly 27 Very badly 11 Don’t know 11 Do you think Nick Clegg is doing well or badly as leader of the Liberal Democrats? Very well 1 Fairly well 25 Fairly badly 24 Very badly 11 Don’t know 38 Do you think house prices in your area will rise or fall over the next 12 months? Rise by more than 10% 2 Rise by less than 10% 10 TOTAL RISE 12 Stay about the same 28 Fall by less than 10% 41 Fall by more than 10% 13 TOTAL FALL 54 Don’t know 6 Over the next 12 months do you think Britain's economy will... Grow at a faster rate than over the past 12 months 1 Grow at about the same rate 5 Grow more slowly 35 Not grow at all 28 Go into recession 26 Don't know 6 1 © 2008 YouGov plc. All Rights Reserved www.yougov.com R % YouGov How much do you trust Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling to lead Britain through the present financial crisis? Trust a lot 4 Trust to some extent 25 Do not trust much 30 Do not trust at all 36 Don’t know 6 Thinking about Prime Minister Gordon Brown which of the following qualities do you think he has? [Please tick all that apply.] Sticks to what he believes -
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (79Th, Anaheim, CA, August 10-13, 1996)
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 401 562 CS 215 570 TITLE Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (79th, Anaheim, CA, August 10-13, 1996). Mass Communication and Society Division. INSTITUTION Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. PUB DATE Aug 96 . NOTE 537p.; For other sections of these proceedings, see CS 215 568-580. PUB TYPE Collected Works Conference Proceedings (021) EDRS PRICE MF02/PC22 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Agenda Setting; Crime; Headlines; *Mass Media Role; *Mass Media Use; Media Research; Newspapers; Organizational Communication; *Parent Role; Political Attitudes; Terrorism; World Wide Web IDENTIFIERS Environmental Reporting; Gulf War; Journalists; Local Media; *Media Coverage; Slang; War on Drugs ABSTRACT The mass communication and society section of the Proceedings contains the following 17 papers: "Deviance in News Coverage of On-Line Communications: A Print Media Comparison" (Lisa M. Weidman); "Political Tolerance of Environmental Protest: The Roles of Generalized and Specialized Information" (Catherine A. Steele and Carol M. Liebler); "First Ladies: A Look at Coverage in Two Major Newspapers" (Erica Scharrer and Jacqueline Arnold); "Agenda-Setting with an Ethnic-Relevant Topic: Ethnicity and Public Salience of Illegal Immigration" (Michael B. Salwen and Frances R. Matera); "Media Dependency Theory and'the Perception of Violence in Professional Ice Hockey" (Quint B. Randle); "The Mediating Role of Public Mood: New Explorations in the Relationship between Media Use and Political Knowledge/Attitudes" (Ekaterina Ognianova and others); "Finding the Smoking Gun: Local Media and Community Ties" (Debra Merskin and Mara Huberlie); "Roles Journalists Play: An Examination of Journalists' Roles as Manifested in Samples of Their Best Work" (Divya C. -
Political Performance and Leadership Persona
This article is a contribution to an emerging scholarship on the role of rhetoric, persona and celebrity, and the effects of performance on the political process. We analyse party leader Ed Miliband at the UK Labour Party Conference in Manchester in 2012. Our analysis identifies how, through performance of ‘himself’ and the beginnings of the deployment of an alternative party narrative centred on ‘One Nation’, Ed Miliband began to revise his ‘received persona’. By using a range of rhetorical and other techniques, Miliband began to adapt the Labour narrative to the ‘personalized political’. The article sets out the theoretical framework for the analysis and returns to the implications for the theory of leadership performance in its conclusion. THERE HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OF RELATED STUDIES SINCE JOHN Corner’s identification (2000) of three modes of leadership performance (iconic, vocal and kinetic) and John Street’s 2004 article on celebrity politicians. At a developed theoretical level, this research has grown in reaction to – though, in fact, it complements – both economic and sociological approaches to the study of politics: namely, what political actors do in the political arena and how they persuade other actors and the wider public to agree or to act are crucial to how politics works and are severely under researched areas. THEORETICAL CONTEXT: RHETORIC, PERSONA AND CELEBRITY Alan Finlayson (2002) has analysed the self‐presentation of former UK Labour prime minister Tony Blair through style, appearance and language, and the creation of an imagined intimacy between Blair and his audience. Finlayson analyses a range of party broadcasts (1994–2001) indicative of what he terms New Labour’s populism, a populism displayed and mobilized through the construction of the character, Tony Blair. -
Labourschoice-1.Pdf
FABIAN SOCIETY The Fabian Society is Britain’s leading left of centre think tank and political society, committed to creating the political ideas and policy debates which can shape the future of progressive politics. With over 300 Fabian MPs, MEPs, Peers, MSPs and AMs, the Society plays an unparalleled role in linking the ability to influence policy debates at the highest level with vigorous grassroots debate among our growing membership of over 7000 people, 70 local branches meeting regularly throughout Britain and a vibrant Young Fabian section organising its own activities. Fabian publications, events and ideas therefore reach and influence a wider audience than those of any comparable think tank. The Society is unique among think tanks in being a thriving, democratically-constituted membership organisation, affiliated to the Labour Party but organisationally and editorially independent. For over 120 years Fabians have been central to every important renewal and revision of left of centre thinking. The Fabian commitment to open and participatory debate is as important today as ever before as we explore the ideas, politics and policies which will define the next generation of progressive politics in Britain, Europe and around the world. Fabian Society 11 Dartmouth Street London SW1H 9BN www.fabians.org.uk First published 2007 ISBN 978 0 7163 4104 8 This pamphlet, like all publications of the Fabian Society, represents not the collective views of the Society but only the views of the authors. The responsibility of the Society is limited to approving its publications as worthy of consideration within the Labour movement. This publication may not be reproduced without express permission of the Fabian Society. -
Improving Your Research Management
PROFESSOR ALAN M JOHNSON AM MA(HONS), MEDMGMT, BAPPSC, PHD, DSC IMPROVING YOUR RESEARCH MANAGEMENT A GUIDE FOR SENIOR UNIVERSITY RESEARCH MANAGERS IMPROVING YOUR RESEARCH MANAGEMENT IMPROVING YOUR RESEARCH MANAGEMENT A GUIDE FOR SENIOR UNIVERSITY RESEARCH MANAGERS PROFESSOR ALAN M JOHNSON AM M.A. (Hons), M.Ed.Mgmt., B.App.Sc., Ph.D., D.Sc. Copyright © 2013 by Alan M. Johnson © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. No part of this docu- ment may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, without permission from the publisher. Enquiries concerning reproduc- tion should be sent to the publisher at the following address: Radarweg 29, 1043 NX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Email: [email protected] Published by Elsevier B.V. First published June 2013 Printed in The Netherlands. ISBN 9789491598012 CONTENTS Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction Chapter 1: Importance of Your Role as a Senior Research Manager Chapter 2: Research Strategy and Planning Chapter 3: Project Management Chapter 4: Organisation, Structure and Governance Chapter 5: Academic Leadership Chapter 6: Professional Activities for You and Your Staff Chapter 7: Promoting Your Research Chapter 8: Publish, Perish, or Patent Chapter 9: Benchmarking Chapter 10: Research Integrity and Ethics Chapter 11: Risk Management Conclusion About the Author 6 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank Henry Mintzberg, Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies, McGill University, Montreal, and Beverley Patwell, Patwell Consulting, [email protected], Victoria, British Columbia, for allowing me to use and reproduce their leadership guide here. 7 FOREWORD Managing a research group or faculty is an increasingly challenging task. On the one hand you need to be prepared to collaborate and compete at a global level, but on the other you are often obliged to depend on local sources of income. -
CONTEXTS of the CADAVER TOMB IN. FIFTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND a Volumes (T) Volume Ltext
CONTEXTS OF THE CADAVER TOMB IN. FIFTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND a Volumes (T) Volume LText. PAMELA MARGARET KING D. Phil. UNIVERSITY OF YORK CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL STUDIES October, 1987. TABLE QE CONTENTS Volume I Abstract 1 List of Abbreviations 2 Introduction 3 I The Cadaver Tomb in Fifteenth Century England: The Problem Stated. 7 II The Cadaver Tomb in Fifteenth Century England: The Surviving Evidence. 57 III The Cadaver Tomb in Fifteenth Century England: Theological and Literary Background. 152 IV The Cadaver Tomb in England to 1460: The Clergy and the Laity. 198 V The Cadaver Tomb in England 1460-1480: The Clergy and the Laity. 301 VI The Cadaver Tomb in England 1480-1500: The Clergy and the Laity. 372 VII The Cadaver Tomb in Late Medieval England: Problems of Interpretation. 427 Conclusion 484 Appendix 1: Cadaver Tombs Elsewhere in the British Isles. 488 Appendix 2: The Identity of the Cadaver Tomb in York Minster. 494 Bibliography: i. Primary Sources: Unpublished 499 ii. Primary Sources: Published 501 iii. Secondary Sources. 506 Volume II Illustrations. TABU QE ILLUSTRATIONS Plates 2, 3, 6 and 23d are the reproduced by permission of the National Monuments Record; Plates 28a and b and Plate 50, by permission of the British Library; Plates 51, 52, 53, a and b, by permission of Trinity College, Cambridge. Plate 54 is taken from a copy of an engraving in the possession of the office of the Clerk of Works at Salisbury Cathedral. I am grateful to Kate Harris for Plates 19 and 45, to Peter Fairweather for Plate 36a, to Judith Prendergast for Plate 46, to David O'Connor for Plate 49, and to the late John Denmead for Plate 37b. -
LSE Review of Books: Book Review: a Woman's Work by Harriet Harman
LSE Review of Books: Book Review: A Woman’s Work by Harriet Harman Page 1 of 3 Book Review: A Woman’s Work by Harriet Harman In A Woman’s Work, Britain’s longest-serving female MP Harriet Harman offers a new memoir reflecting on her experience of high-level politics and the recent history of the Labour Party from the late 1970s to the present. Despite a small number of notable omissions, this is a valuable addition to the genre of political autobiography that puts women’s lived experience and the continuing fight for gender equality at its centre, writes Emma Lundin. If you are interested in this book review, you may also like to listen to a recording of Harriet Harman participating in a LSE Literary Festival 2017 panel on ‘Women in Work: An Unfinished Revolution?’, speaking alongside Katrine Marçal, Lieutenant Commander Alexandra Pollard and Dr Nicola Rollock on 23 February 2017. A Woman’s Work. Harriet Harman. Allen Lane. 2017. Find this book: In what we can hope is a lasting trend, there has been a lot of interest in books that restore female politicians’ lives and experiences to the historical record over the past year. Alongside historian Laura Beers’s Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist, journalist Sophy Ridge’s The Women Who Shaped Politics and Labour MP Rachel Reeves’s Alice in Westminster: The Political Life of Alice Bacon sits Harriet Harman’s A Woman’s Work – a rare autobiography written by a woman still involved in high-level politics, and an engaging account of a tumultuous time in the Labour Party’s history.