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Political Studies Association Awards 2003 AWARDS•2004

Welcome I am delighted to welcome you to the Political Studies Association 2004 Awards. The activity of politics is often subject to denigration. However, the health of our democracy requires that persons of high calibre continue to enter political life. It needs the contribution to political debate that is made by politicians, the media, pressure groups, academics and satirists.

It is refreshing to note that interest in politics is, on some measurements at least, higher than ever. For example, applications to study politics at university rose by a record 17 per cent in 2003-4, suggesting an enthusiasm among many talented young people for the study of the subject. A modest rise in electoral turnout in recent local and European elections also provides grounds for cautious optimism.

Today is an opportunity to celebrate the contribution of some of the individuals, organisations, journals and television programmes that enhance the quality of our political life. Those receiving awards include: politicians of vision whose reputations remain unblemished and whose principles have clearly been retained throughout distinguished careers; three first-class journalists, who, in different ways via their respective outlets, have enhanced the democratic process by stimulating debate; and a witty and clever satirical television programme which has rarely failed to provide mirth.

We are also delighted to honour a number of academics for their outstanding contributions to the study of politics and the work of the Political Studies Association. We acknowledge their serious contribution to the study of the subject, which has often been influential in practical policy debates and will enrich the analysis of politics for generations to come.

Finally, I would like to thank our award sponsors – ExxonMobil, the Economic and Social Research Council, Blackwell Publishing, FDS International, Citigate Public Affairs, Palgrave Macmillan and Cambridge University Press – whose very generous support has made this event possible.

Professor Wyn Grant Chair, Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom

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Political Studies Association Awards 2004 Political Studies Association Awards 2004 Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for Award sponsor Lifetime Achievement in Political Studies Award sponsor Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies PROFESSOR CAROLE PATEMAN PROFESSOR IVOR CREWE, AcSS

Ivor Crewe was born in 1945 in colleague Professor Anthony King, won Carole Pateman was born in 1940 in theory, citizenship and liberal political Manchester. He read PPE at Exeter the Political Studies Association WJM Maresfield, Sussex. She left school at 16 thought. Another key area of her work has College, Oxford (where he was made an Mackenzie prize for the best book and had a succession of clerical jobs been feminist political theory and she has honorary fellow in 1998) and then published that year. before going to Ruskin College in 1963 to had a major impact on the analysis of the undertook a Master’s Degree in Economics study economics, politics, history and relationship between gender and politics. at the LSE. His first academic post was as Professor Crewe’s analysis of the sociology. One of her fellow students was In addition to many key journal articles, assistant lecturer at Lancaster University diminishing role of social class in voting John Prescott, now Deputy Prime she has written four books and co-edited from 1967 to 1969. He then moved to remains seminal. He was the first political Minister. She read PPE at Lady Margaret four volumes of essays. Her first book Nuffield College, Oxford, as a research scientist to identify the phenomenon of Hall, Oxford, and stayed on to pursue her Participation and Democratic Theory fellow, before joining the Department of the ‘new working class’, containing DPhil on the subject Participation and (1970) has been reprinted nineteen times Government at the University of Essex in distinctive characteristics, much more Recent Theories of Democracy. and translated into many languages. THE JUDGES SAY 1971. He was Director of the ESRC Data instrumental in their voting behaviour, THE JUDGES SAY Other publications include The Problem of Professor Ivor Crewe has been one of the Archive from 1974 until 1982 and also and prepared to abandon residual loyalty Professor Carole Pateman is a distinguished After two years as a Mary Ewart Research Political Obligation (1986) and The outstanding political scientists of recent served as Director of the British Election to the Labour Party in favour of the political theorist, internationally renowned Fellow at Somerville College, in 1972 Dr Disorder of Women (1990). Professor decades. He has changed the way we Survey during this period. He was Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher. for her work on democratic political theory Pateman was appointed to a position at Pateman’s book The Sexual Contract understand electoral politics and has promoted to a chair in 1982 and has been As editor of the British Journal of Political and associated questions such as the University of Sydney. In 1980 she was (1988) won the Victoria Shuck Award provided some of the sharpest insights into Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex Science between 1977 and 1982, and co- participation, consent and obligation. She elected a fellow of the Australian from the American Political Science such trends as the dealignment of social since 1995. editor between 1984 and 1992, Ivor has also made important contributions to Academy of Social Sciences and she Association. class and partisanship in terms of how Crewe assisted many younger members discussions on feminist theory, human served as President of the Australasian modern voting is conducted. The Professor Crewe has worked closely with of the profession with their research and rights and citizenship. She has a long and Political Studies Association in 1980-81. extensiveness and rigour of his publications the Economic and Social Research Council publications. He has made a major impressive list of publications, which have Since 1990 she has been Professor of commands widespread respect and (ESRC) to collect and analyse data on contribution to the advancement of influenced theoretical and practical Political Science at the University of admiration. British political attitudes and voting political studies in the United Kingdom debates in politics and are widely cited. California at Los Angeles. behaviour, charting the increasing and to its high reputation abroad. She has also undertaken distinguished volatility of the British electorate. He has service on a wide variety of professional Professor Pateman has been a visiting been at the forefront of academic Professor Crewe is President of bodies. The breadth and depth of her fellow at Stanford, Princeton and the research in this field and has broadcast Universities UK, representing all university contribution to the intellectual University of British Columbia and has frequently on British politics, especially vice-chancellors and dedicated to development of political studies, coupled also held a Guggenheim fellowship. In elections, parties and public opinion, on securing more funding for British higher with her work within the profession, makes 1988-89 she became the inaugural holder the BBC and ITV. He was elections analyst education and maintaining the profile of Professor Carole Pateman a most worthy of the Kirsten Hesselgren Professorship of for The Times between 1990 and 1992. British academic institutions. In July 2004, winner of the Political Studies Association’s the Swedish Council for Research in the in his capacity as President of UUK, he 2004 Award for Lifetime Achievement in Humanities and Social Sciences. She has As well as editing and contributing to a delivered the Centre for Reform’s fifth Political Studies. also been active in the International number of volumes on British general annual lecture, entitled UK Universities, Political Science Association and in 1991 elections, Professor Crewe’s publications Europe and the Globalisation of Higher she was elected as its first female include Decade of Dealignment (1983 Education. He argued that President. She was elected a fellow of the with B Svarlik), Electoral Change in “competitiveness abroad and quality at American Academy of Arts and Sciences Western Democracies (1985 with D home are inextricably inter-dependent. in 1996 and two years’ later was awarded Denver), and The New British Politics The government – and the sector – need an honorary DLitt by the Australian (2001 with I Budge, D McKay and K to cultivate both, for all universities. National University. Newton), which has entered its third Failure to do so will inevitably lead to an edition. Professor Crewe’s book The SDP: unavoidable spiral of decline for one of Carole Pateman has produced highly The Social and Democratic Party 1981- Britain's remaining international influential work in political theory, with 1987 (1995), co-written with his Essex successes – its universities”. notable contributions to democratic

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Political Studies Association Awards 2004 Political Studies Association Awards 2004 Political Broadcaster of the Year Political Science ‘Making a Difference’ Award Award sponsor ANDREW MARR PROFESSOR GERRY STOKER

Andrew Marr was born in 1959 in Mandelson left the government for the Gerry Stoker was born in Worcester in Management of Local Governance (1999) Glasgow. He read English at Trinity Hall, second time, Andrew Marr stood in 1955. He studied at the University of and The New Politics of Local Governance Cambridge, before joining the Scotsman as Downing Street and said that if the police Manchester, where he read economics, (2000). a trainee and junior business reporter in had been called it would have been before joining the Department of 1981. He graduated to parliamentary marked down as “a domestic”. Government to study for his PhD on the Professor Stoker has been involved in correspondent in 1984 and political subject The Politics of Urban Renewal in national policy debates for many years. correspondent in 1986. Andrew Marr was Andrew Marr is also able to cut through Withington Village 1962-1983. He was a From 1993 to 1995 he was a member of appointed political editor of the some of the language used in political lecturer at Leicester Polytechnic from the Commission for Local Democracy and Economist in 1988 and moved to the discourse and interpret it in a 1979 to 1986 and then spent three years since 1996 he has been Chair of the New Independent as chief political straightforward way. When Mr Tony Blair at INLOGOV at the University of Local Government Network which has commentator in 1992. He became editor expressed support “in principle” for TV Birmingham. He subsequently had brief been a highly effective voice lobbying for THE JUDGES SAY of the paper in 1996. After a spell as a debates, Andrew Marr reported that this THE JUDGES SAY spells at the Universities of Essex and change and more democracy in local With the clarity, perceptiveness and columnist for the Daily Express and the was “the sort of principle which means a Professor Gerry Stoker has a distinguished Wayne State, Detroit, before joining the government. He has advised the Labour humour of his broadcasts, Andrew Marr Observer, he became the BBC’s political debate will never happen”. He has the array of publications which have shaped University of Strathclyde in 1991 as government on local governance and was an obvious choice as Political editor in May 2000. unusual ability to convey complex and various debates on governance. These Professor of Politics, where he remained presented evidence to select committees Broadcaster of the Year. He reports controversial political issues in a witty and works are widely cited and have been of until his appointment to Manchester in in both the Scottish and Westminster political events with admirable impartiality Andrew Marr has written a number of accessible manner, without losing the key great importance not only to academics 2000. Parliaments. He was a member of the and objectivity. Without ever ‘dumbing books, including The Battle for Scotland issues at the heart of any event or having and students, but also to policy makers IPPR Commission on Public Private down’, he manages to convey important (1992), Ruling Britannia (1998), The Day his neutrality called into question. These and practitioners. Gerry Stoker has been Professor Stoker’s research interests have Partnerships which reported in 2001. ideas and observations to his audience in Britain Died (2000) and My Trade (2004). skills have proved invaluable to Andrew involved in policy debates for many years, centred on urban politics and local Professor Stoker is also an expert adviser an accessible, digestible form. He is He has also broadcast a series on Marr in his role as BBC political editor, not seeking to influence developments government and between 1992 and 1997 to the Council of Europe on local and knowledgeable, informative and a first- contemporary thinkers on BBC2 and least during his coverage of the Hutton through membership of commissions and he was Director of the ESRC’s Local regional government matters. He rate commentator on current political Radio Four, political documentaries for a inquiry and the subsequent report, public bodies, speeches at key events and Governance Programme. He is also regularly receives invitations to speak at developments. Perhaps most striking of all, number of channels, and has presented published in early 2004. conferences, and work with the media, as interested in public participation, social conferences on governance issues aimed Andrew Marr’s enthusiasm for, and BBC Panorama. He currently presents well as through his research and capital and non-profit organisations. In at practitioners and policymakers as well enjoyment of, political affairs comes Start the Week on Radio Four. Mr Marr publications. The Political Science ‘Making 2004 he began a three-year Economic as academics from across the globe. shining through and helps make politics was chosen as Columnist of the Year in a Difference’ Award is intended to and Social Research Council (ESRC) more interesting for many people. the What the Papers Say Awards of 1995 acknowledge the work of an academic that professorial fellowship. There are three main strands to the work and Columnist of the Year in the British has influenced public debate and policy on Professor Stoker has undertaken with Press Awards of the same year. He was an issue, and Professor Stoker is a deserved His many publications include Choices in policy makers. First, he has advocated named Journalist of the Year in the winner of the award for 2004. the Design of London Government (1997), management reform to bring about a Creative Freedom Awards 2000 and Democratic Renewal: Issues for Local more joined-up approach to service received the Journalist Award in the Government London (1998) and (with delivery, involving more citizens and Channel 4 Political Awards of 2001. He Tony Travers) A Tale of Two Cities: The voluntary groups. Second, he has argued lists his hobbies as reading, painting and Government of New York: Lessons for for innovative approaches to increasing cooking. London (1998). Along with B. Guy Peters citizen participation and getting more and Jon Pierre, he is an editor of the new people involved in local politics, such as It is Andrew Marr’s choice of language and Political Analysis series, which has rapidly directly elected mayors. Third, he has easy conversational style that has marked gained a high profile by providing much- spelled out the need for better him out. He has the ability to engage a needed resources for the rapidly-growing understanding of politics in multi-level wide variety of viewers and to report field of political science theory and governance, to ensure greater national political events in ways that methodology. As a result of the ESRC accountability and better partnerships. capture their essential human Local Governance Programme, Gerry characteristics. For example, when Peter Stoker edited two books on The New

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Political Studies Association Awards 2004 Political Studies Association Awards 2004 Richard Rose Prize Political Turkey of the Year DR MATTHEW FLINDERS THE LAW LORDS

Social Sciences. He has pursued his Future of Europe (2003); Review of Public political parties; United Kingdom politics; The law lords themselves are split on the research interests in public sector reform, Administration in Northern Ireland understanding the growth of government; value of a supreme court. However, instead governance, legislative studies and (2004); and the Home Office's review of comparative public policy; and mass of trying to inspire debate on the subject, constitutional politics and has published the public inquiry system (2004). Dr response to transformation in post- their minds seem to have been elsewhere. articles in journals such as Governance, Flinders is a Director of the International communist countries. His latest book is The initial proposed site for the court was West European Politics, Public Policy and Research Network on Quasi-Government, Learning from Comparative Public Policy: A the old Middlesex Guildhall in Parliament Administration, British Journal of Politics which was established in 1998 and seeks Practical Guide. Square. Lord Falconer was keen not to and International Relations, Political to facilitate and nurture comparative and commission a new building because of the Quarterly, Legislative Studies, Public inter-disciplinary research on quasi- Professor Rose has held visiting posts in expense. After the experience of the new Administration, and Political Studies.In autonomous governmental bodies. He is places as diverse as Berlin, Florence, Scottish Parliament building in Holyrood 2002 his article ‘Shifting the Balance? currently working with the Hansard Vienna, and Washington, DC, and he has (which started out with a budget of £40 THE JUDGES SAY Parliament, the Executive and the British Society on a Nuffield Foundation funded served as a consultant for many THE JUDGES SAY million and rocketed to over £430 million), This is a new prize instigated by Professor Constitution’ secured him the Political audit of parliamentary modernization governmental and intergovernmental The law lords were an obvious choice for it seemed sensible to renovate existing Richard Rose, to recognise younger talent Studies Association's Harrison Prize, which since 1997. organisations. His books and hundreds of the Political Turkey of the Year Award. They premises, and with a beautiful listed within the political science community. is awarded annually for the best article in articles have been published in eighteen cared more about their accommodation building based in the centre of London This year’s prize is awarded to Dr Matthew Political Studies. His books include Multi- languages. Richard Rose has received a than setting up a Supreme Court. They ‘going spare’, the problem of finding a site Flinders for the intellectual depth, Level Governance (with Ian Bache) Richard Rose was born in St. Louis, Lifetime Achievement Award from the turned down the magnificent law courts for the court seemed to be solved. analytical rigour and wider relevance of his (Oxford University Press, 2004), The Missouri in 1933. After studying at John Political Studies Association of the United building in Parliament Square, symbolically research. Politics of Accountability in the Modern Hopkins University, he came to the LSE in Kingdom and the Lasswell Award from the perfect for the job, sited opposite Enter the law lords. They complained that State (Ashgate, 2001) and Quangos, 1953 as a postgraduate student in Policy Studies Organisation (USA). He is parliament and covered in beautiful they wouldn’t be able to have their Accountability and Reform: The Politics of international relations. A year later, he also a winner of the Robert Marjorin Victorian carvings. offices on the same corridor, which would Matthew Flinders was born in London in Quasi-Government (Macmillan, 1999). He became a reporter on the St. Louis Post Amex Prize in International Economics. supposedly completely stymie any 1972. He read European Politics at is currently working on two books (both Dispatch, but in 1957 he left journalism He is a fellow of the British Academy, the opportunities to swap ideas informally. Loughborough University and completed for Oxford University Press). The first of for Oxford, where he completed his DPhil American Academy of Arts and Sciences A key element of New Labour’s They argued that they would not be able his PhD thesis, entitled The Politics of these books, Walking Without Order: on the foreign policy and party policies of and the Finnish Academy. programme has been constitutional to sit in a semi-circle on the same level as Accountability: the Enduring Centrality of Delegated Governance and the British the Attlee. He then joined the reform. Included in this package has been counsel in any of the rooms. Lord Individual Ministerial Responsibility State, examines the changing structure of Department of Government at the the attempt to sharpen the separation of Falconer tried to identify a temporary site within the British Constitution at the the British State. The second book, University of Manchester under the powers between the judiciary, executive for the court, as a compromise, but their University of Sheffield. Whilst undertaking Democracy in Britain: New Labour and the leadership of W.J.M. Mackenzie. and legislature. The newly-created lordships refused to contemplate any his thesis Dr Flinders worked with Constitution, explores the nature of Department for Constitutional Affairs, change in their status until a venue to Professor David Marquand on a project political analysis in relation to The first edition of Richard Rose’s Politics headed by Lord Falconer, has been their liking had either been renovated or that examined the role and powers of constitutional reform in Britain. in England appeared in 1964. Two years’ responsible for these reforms. In July built from scratch. And whilst the quasi-autonomous public bodies, and later, he moved to the University of 2004, the Constitutional Reform Bill was government has set an upper limit of £32 then with Professor Martin Smith on Dr Flinders is committed to policy- Strathclyde as Professor to build a new blocked by the Lords. The plans to replace million on any site for the new court, public policy making, as part of the relevant research and he has contributed Politics Department. In 1970 he was one the thousand-year-old post of Lord some senior law lords have indicated that ESRC’s ‘Whitehall Programme’. to the work of a number of parliamentary of the co-founders of the European Chancellor with a new independent a budget of at least £50 million is more and governmental bodies. These include: Consortium of Political Research and in judicial appointments commission, and in keeping with their status. Although Matthew Flinders' career at the Select Committee on Public 1974 co-founded the British Politics create a new supreme court to supersede Lord Falconer’s office has tried to present Department of Politics at the University Administration (1998 and 1999); Local Group in the United States. In 1976 the role of the House of Lords as ultimate this as an issue that can be resolved of Sheffield began as a Research Assistant Government Association (1999); Hansard Professor Rose established the Centre for court of appeal, were resisted by an swiftly it was suggested that, even if the in 1997. He was appointed to a Society (2001); Committee on Standards the Study of Public Policy at Strathclyde alliance of Conservative and cross-bench House of Commons over-rides the vote in Lectureship in 2000 and Senior in Public Life (2002); House of Lords to relate the world of ideas to the world peers, who argued that the bill had been the House of Lords on the bill, the Lectureship in 2003, and in 2004 was Select Committee on the Constitution of practice. Richard Rose has worked in drafted without sufficient forethought or collective intransigence of the law lords appointed Sub-Dean of the Faculty of (2003); European Convention on the fields as diverse as elections, voting and consultation. could put this constitutional reform on hold for up to a decade.

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Political Studies Association Awards 2004 Political Studies Association Awards 2004 Best Political Satire Political Columnist of the Year DEAD RINGERS PETER RIDDELL

Created by Peter Dare, Dead Ringers was to the constant internal monologue that Peter Riddell was born in 1948 in Torquay. Peter Riddell has chaired the Parliamentary first broadcast on Radio Four in 2000 and accompanies his replies (“sympathetic He read History and Economics at Sydney Press Gallery and has been a member of moved to television two years later. The hand gestures, emotional bald spot”), and Sussex College, Cambridge, before the Hansard Society Council for show is built around the talents of Jon to the only agenda that Blair seems to be beginning a career in journalism. He joined Parliamentary Government since 1995. In Culshaw, Phil Cornwell, Jan Ravens, Kevin interested in; “my government has a clear the Financial Times in 1970 as economics 2001 he was appointed to the board of Connolly and Mark Perry, whose vision of what we want to achieve by the correspondent, moving on to become the experts brought together to oversee the impressions have also graced shows such end of this term. Making everyone love me paper’s political editor then U.S. editor and programme of research into public as Spitting Image and Stella Street.The like they used to”. Washington Bureau chief. He joined The attitudes by the Committee on Standards show combines a witty script with Times as a political columnist in 1991. He in Public Life. These commitments reflect impressions so accurate that shortly The Dead Ringers cast have previously was made political editor in 1992 before his interest and knowledge on the subject before the last election, Jon Culshaw been awarded a Sony Gold award as well taking up the post of assistant editor in of parliamentary reform, which is a THE JUDGES SAY convinced Tony Blair’s private office that as a British Comedy award for best radio THE JUDGES SAY 1993. constant theme in his columns. In addition Dead Ringers has included some of the he was William Hague, and was put show. The Political Studies Association is Peter Riddell is known for his persistently to his journalistic career he has also funniest and most effective satire on through to the prime minister. delighted to add to these awards its Best fair, accurate and original political In addition to his print media career, he worked in academia. He was visiting television during the last twelve months. Political Satire Award for 2004. journalism, with a willingness to challenge has been a regular broadcaster on shows professor of political history at Queen Consistently humorous, perceptive and Always dedicated to biting the hands that orthodoxy and keenness to engage such as The Week in Westminster and Mary and Westfield College between 2000 sharp, it contains the best lines and most feed them, the cast have mercilessly academic perspectives which have made Talking Politics and has contributed to and 2003, and is a board member of the accurate observations of any satire poked fun at the BBC, starting with their him stand out in a competitive field. He numerous publications including the Institute of British History. programme. It is one of the few first home, Radio Four (“terribly clever writes lucidly and engagingly in a political Spectator, New Statesman, Parliamentary programmes guaranteed to reduce viewers radio programmes for the smug middle column in The Times which is marked by Affairs and Political Quarterly. His books to helpless mirth, perhaps most notably in classes”) and taking in most BBC figures depth and insight and has become the include The Thatcher Decade (1989), its savagely witty portrayals of Prime along the way. One unexpected casualty standard by which others are judged. Parliament Under Pressure (1998), and Hug Minister Blair and President Bush. However, of the Hutton Report was Phil Cornwell’s Them Close (2003), which explores the besides being very good entertainment, send-up of Greg Dyke, strutting round the impact of the Blair era on the ‘special Dead Ringers regularly raises important corridors of Broadcasting House in the relationship’ between the UK and the US. contemporary issues and forces the viewer guise of Michael Caine. Peter Riddell’s latest book, The Unfulfilled to think critically about them. Prime Minister (2004), is an incisive Whilst much of Dead Ringers is taken up analysis of Blair’s political promises and with mocking the inanities of decisions. contemporary broadcasting, with its emphasis on celebrities, reality television In his columns in The Times, Peter Riddell and endless property shows, it is their resists any temptation to hector or to take acutely observed take-offs of politicians a simplistic view on a topic, and he is never and the journalists who are supposed to be carried away by prevailing tides of opinion. making sense of their actions which has One of the subjects exercising all political earned them this award. Poor Dubya’s columnists this year has been whether grasp of the English language (“My fellow Tony Blair’s tenure as prime minister is or umbrella stands, my fellow ameboids”) should be ending. Riddell elegantly reflects his general loose grip on the reviewed the phases of Blair’s leadership by current situation as he yet again tapes over comparing them to the allegorical paintings information from his intelligence services of the life of heroes by the American artist, with Sesame Street. Meanwhile any Thomas Cole. With calm understatement attempt by Andrew Marr or David Frost to he suggested that “Mr Blair is susceptible interview Tony Blair must take a back seat to the temptations of destiny”.

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Political Studies Association Awards 2004 Political Studies Association Awards 2004 Politician of the Year Award sponsor Political Publication of the Year RT HON GORDON BROWN MP PROSPECT

Gordon Brown was born in February 1951 serving Chancellor since 1832, exceeding Divide (1987), and Where There’s Greed The roll call of contributors is impressive, in Glasgow, but three years’ later his the seven years and 43 days served by (1989). Mr Brown’s hobbies include with academic figures such as Roy Foster, family moved to Kirkcaldy where his Lloyd-George (1908-1915). He is also one football, reading, tennis and films and one Francis Fukuyama and Bhikhu Parekh father John was a Minister in the Church of the most successful Chancellors, of his favourite television programmes writing alongside journalists such as Yasmin of Scotland. He studied history at the certainly in modern times, presiding over was “Friends”. In 2000, Gordon Brown Alibhai-Brown, Jonathan Freedland and University of Edinburgh and after a stable economy with low inflation, married Sarah Macaulay. Polly Toynbee, and political figures such as graduating began working on his PhD sustained growth, and high levels of Jack Straw and Andrew Adonis. The thesis entitled The Labour Party and employment. In 2004, Mr Brown announced that he magazine covers both domestic and world Scotland 1918-1929: the Politics of Five would continue to increase public politics as well as science and the arts, Elections. He was elected Rector of the From the moment he took office as spending on key services such as health providing in-depth evaluation of current University for the period from 1972 to Chancellor, Gordon Brown began to bring and education. He has also sought to use affairs and ethical issues. THE JUDGES SAY 1975 and served as a temporary lecturer in important changes, such as making the his role at the Treasury to implement THE JUDGES SAY Unemployment and inflation stood at a from 1975 to 1976. That year he was Bank of England independent from innovative measures such as a windfall Prospect has offered a wide range of With a circulation approaching 25,000 thirty-five year low in 2004, a tribute to appointed to a lectureship in politics at government, giving up the right to set tax on newly privatised utilities and important, thought-provoking articles Prospect has achieved a higher profile than the safe custodianship of the UK economy the Glasgow College of Technology, interest rates in the process. He also working family tax credits. He has looked during the last twelve months. With an ever in 2004 thanks to a controversial by Gordon Brown, one of the most subsequently Glasgow Caledonian introduced new levels of accountability to the legacy of Labour politicians such as excellent balance of contributions from article by David Goodhart. Under the title distinguished Chancellors of the Exchequer University, and in 1980 he moved to and transparency within the Treasury, Hugh Gaitskell and Anthony Crosland and established figures and rising stars, “Too much diversity?” Goodhart sought to ever to serve in the post. A person of Scottish Television covering politics and inviting the National Audit Office to has said: “I would argue that our Prospect has stimulated discussion within open a discussion on the concepts of substantial intellect, Gordon Brown has current affairs. He was awarded his PhD in scrutinise the Treasury’s economic commitment to equality is as strong as government, given rise to debate among multiculturalism and the integration of offered an impressive combination of 1982. forecasting. Above all, he emphasised the ever. We are applying it, however, in the MPs and within the media, and has minorities in modern Britain. The article innovation, prudence and redistribution need for financial care and stability and new circumstances we face. That means achieved a growing reputation and sparked heated debate in the media and during his seven years in office, making him Gordon Brown’s interest in politics began economic discipline, and “prudence with a never having been diverted from our readership among the wider public. Prospect itself published a number of one of the most respected and formidable early – at the age of 12 he was offering purpose” became his watchwords. egalitarian ends, but being aware that Prospect is an intelligent, entertaining and responses from academics in the field such politicians to serve his country. His to canvass for the Labour Party in a local policies may change to take account of provocative magazine, raising important as Bernard Crick and Will Kymlicka. achievements and his influence in by-election. He joined the Party at 18 His achievements at the Treasury have changed times”. issues and promoting informed debate and contemporary British, European and and became Chairman of the Labour Club sometimes been overshadowed by thoroughly deserves the 2004 award for This reputation for well-informed international politics make Gordon Brown at the University of Edinburgh. He stood speculation about his relationship with Gordon Brown wants to establish a Political Publication of the Year. provocative thought has been strengthened a worthy winner of the Political Studies unsuccessfully in Edinburgh South in Tony Blair and by media caricatures of his progressive consensus that the state by another of Goodhart’s contributions. To Association’s 2004 award for Politician of 1979, but was elected as Member of insistence on prudent financial policy. should help those in need, building strong celebrate the 100th edition, published in the Year. Parliament for Dunfermline East in 1983. Gordon Brown was seen as a potential and efficient health and education Prospect was launched in October 1995 by July 2004, he prompted arguments on the Within four years Gordon Brown had party leader after the resignation of Neil services, while enabling those with editor David Goodhart, a senior pages of other papers and magazines by gained his first frontbench post as Kinnock in 1992 and again after the enterprise to flourish. He is concerned correspondent for the Financial Times, and compiling a list of 100 British intellectuals, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury. unexpected death of John Smith in May about poverty, in Britain and abroad, and chairman Derek Coombs, a former which took in figures such as Eric He became Shadow Trade and Industry 1994. However, following a meeting with is passionate about increasing aid for Conservative MP, with the intention of Hobsbawm and Melvyn Bragg. This Secretary in 1989 and Shadow Chancellor Mr Blair in the Granita restaurant, Gordon developing countries and reducing their creating a magazine for a reflective, prompted debate about intellectual as a in 1992. When Labour swept to victory in Brown reportedly agreed to stand aside in debt. Above all, he remains an optimist, educated and discerning readership. The aim term. The list also generated controversy as 1997 he was appointed Chancellor of the Blair’s favour. The relationship between the saying “I do believe that tomorrow can be was to launch a monthly that was “more it only contained twelve female names. It Exchequer. two men has been central to the fortunes better than today”. readable than the Economist, more relevant seems that the editorial team behind of New Labour and they have remained than the Spectator, more romantic than the Prospect have lived up to the founding aim Gordon Brown is the longest serving united in public, despite continuing reports New Statesman”, according to Sir Jeremy of stimulating discussion as well as to Labour Chancellor of all time (having of divisions in the media. Isaacs. This aim has largely been realised, as “commission the best writers to make surpassed Denis Healey’s tenure of 5 Prospect has acquired a reputation as the complex ideas accessible and enjoyable”. years and 2 months). On 15 June 2004, His publications include Maxton: A most intelligent magazine of current affairs Mr Brown became the longest continuous Biography (1986), Scotland: The Real and cultural debate in Britain.

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Political Studies Association Awards 2004 Political Studies Association Awards 2004 Political Publisher of the Year Award sponsor Parliamentarian of the Year Award sponsor STEVEN KENNEDY RT HON BARONESS SCOTLAND OF ASTHAL QC

Steven Kennedy was born in London in companion volumes on Russia, Germany, Patricia Scotland was born in Dominica in restorative justice, this is part of her 1952. He read International Relations at France, America, Western Europe, Central 1956, her family moving to Britain when strong commitment to make the justice Sussex University, but says his attempts and Eastern Europe, and the EU. she was two. She graduated from London system more transparent and effective for to complete a PhD on the dynamics of Developments in British Politics 8 is with an LLB and was called to the Middle victims of crime. European integration were thwarted “by scheduled for publication in early 2006. Temple in 1977. She specialised in family the advent of eurosclerosis and the loss Another example of Steven’s innovative and public law and represented parties in In addition to her achievements in the of my notes when my car, parked outside approach is the European Union series a number of inquiries relating to child legal and parliamentary fields, Baroness the central police station in Manchester, developed in the early 1990s with series abuse, mental health and housing. She Scotland has held many other important was stolen”. He moved into publishing editors Neill Nugent, William Paterson was made a QC in 1991, the first black posts. She has been, variously, a member and was appointed as a trainee editor on and the late Vincent Wright. This series woman to achieve this honour, and of the Bar Public Relations Committee, the higher education social science list at has been described by Robert Leonardi in became a judge in 1999. She was given a the Race Relations Committee, the THE JUDGES SAY Macmillan Press in 1979. He has been Political Quarterly as “so important in THE JUDGES SAY life peerage in 1997 and was appointed Professional Conduct Committee, the Steven Kennedy’s enthusiasm, there ever since. providing support for a whole generation Baroness Scotland of Asthal has made an to the Privy Council in 2001. Judicial Studies Board, the Ethnic Minority commitment and sound advice have been of scholars and students studying the outstanding contribution as a Minister of Advisory Committee, the Legal Advisory of great benefit to politics academics for In his 25 years at Palgrave Macmillan, dynamics and impact of European State in the Home Office. She has played a Baroness Scotland served as a Foreign Panel on the National Consumer Council, many years. His knowledge of politics is Steven Kennedy has published in almost integration”. key role in the reform and modernisation of Office minister before moving to the Lord and the National Advisory Committee on first-class, his support for publication of every social science subject, and through the criminal justice system and has Chancellor’s Department in 2001. Two Mentally Disordered Offenders. Currently ‘cutting-edge’ research in new and existing the 1990s doubled up his own Steven Kennedy describes the purpose of established an excellent reputation for her years’ later she became Minister of State she is a patron of the Margaret Beaufort fields is sustained, and his assistance to commissioning with directing, first, the his work as “running a single-handed powers of political persuasion and at the Home Office with responsibility for Institute, the Frank Longford Charitable academics at all stages of publication has humanities and social science section campaign to subvert the unintended advocacy. The Baroness has articulated her the criminal justice system and law Trust and Sponsor of the George Viner earned him the respect and gratitude of and, later, all of Macmillan’s college-level consequences of successive regimes of ideas with admirable clarity in the Lords reform. In this new post her tasks Memorial Fund Trust, as well as a member political scientists and theorists throughout publishing. Following the successful research and teaching quality assessment and has developed clear programmes of included not only modernisation of the of the Thomas More Society and the and beyond the United Kingdom. rebranding of Macmillan Press, and its US in the UK”. He clearly deserves this implementation. She has piloted complex criminal justice system, in terms of Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship. She is a sister company St Martin's Press, as special award from the Political Studies legislation through the House, has shown detection, sentencing and rehabilitation, member of the Bar of Antigua and the Palgrave Macmillan, he returned to a full- Association, unanimously agreed by this mastery of her brief, and has earned but responsibility for building confidence Commonwealth of Dominica. time commissioning role in 2000, and has year’s judges. widespread respect for her work in in the system as well. concentrated his main attention on Parliament, and also beyond. textbook and broader student paperback Photo: James Papworth In her first interview as Minister of State publishing. He sees these as playing a she told the Guardian “this is an area crucial role in shaping debates, about which I have felt passionately for a consolidating paradigms and synthesising very long time. Getting it right really and consolidating intellectual progress. matters”. The task proved a complicated one as getting the Criminal Justice Bill Steven Kennedy has worked with most of through to Royal Assent meant having to the leading figures in the world of British overcome worries about the implication political science, but he has been equally of allowing defendants to be re-tried on concerned to encourage younger new evidence (double jeopardy) and the academics to think big and write books Lords’ rejection of the limiting of right to that address central issues. The longest- trial by jury in cases of complex fraud or standing example, among the many organised crime. During 2004, Baroness innovative projects, is Developments in Scotland has been shepherding new British Politics, which he dreamed up with domestic violence legislation through the the late Henry Drucker. The first volume Lords. Along with the ‘no witness, no appeared in 1983 and has spawned justice’ project and plans to explore

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Political Studies Association Awards 2004 Political Studies Association Awards 2004 Political Science Communication Award Award sponsor Political Journalist of the Year PROFESSOR JOHN CURTICE TREVOR KAVANAGH

John Curtice was born in 1953 in Redruth, opinion polls in the 1992 general election Trevor Kavanagh was born in Southall in her policies, and that support for these Cornwall. After reading PPE at Magdalen and, more recently, of the Independent 1943. After leaving his Surrey grammar policies has been a constant, despite a College he was a research fellow at Commission on Britain’s Experience of school he started his career on a local shift of editorial support to Tony Blair. In Nuffield College, before moving to the Proportional Representation Voting weekly before joining the Hereford particular, he has continued to champion University of Liverpool as a lecturer. In Systems (ICPR). Evening News as agricultural a Euro-sceptic viewpoint, and he is 1988 he joined the University of correspondent. He emigrated to Australia, especially articulate in his opposition to Strathclyde, being promoted first to Professor Curtice has used his knowledge working for several papers including a the Euro, telling his former editor Roy senior lecturer and then to Professor. In and expertise to inform public debate stint as political correspondent in Greenslade in a recent interview that “in addition to these positions, he has been a through the media. He has acted as both Canberra for the Murdoch owned Sydney our mind the argument against is crystal Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands consultant and contributor to the BBC for Daily Mirror. clear, and the argument for is clouded. Institute for Advanced Study and visiting many years. He has written for nearly Essentially it’s about sovereignty. The THE JUDGES SAY lecturer at Indiana University. He was every Scottish and London based THE JUDGES SAY Trevor Kavanagh returned to England in alternative is undemocratic, The Political Science Communication elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of newspaper, and in recent years he has Trevor Kavanagh has been at the ‘cutting 1978, joined the Sun and was soon unrepresentative and bureaucratic”. Award acknowledges an academic who has Edinburgh in 2004. written regularly for, amongst others, the edge’ of political journalism for many years covering the Winter of Discontent, an successfully disseminated knowledge and Economist, Independent, Scotsman, and, in many respects, he has left his rivals explosive and ultimately decisive period ideas to non-academic audiences. Professor Curtice’s research interests have Guardian and Observer. These articles far behind during the last twelve months. in British political history. He became Professor John Curtice is receiving the focused on electoral behaviour, electoral have provided a wealth of informed and He provides clear political reporting, political editor in 1983 and has been award for various reasons. He disseminates systems, media and politics, and social accessible opinion on the subject of accessible to a wide variety of audiences prepared to mix strident campaigning his ideas and analysis through a wide and political attitude formation. He has British elections, voting behaviour, and and he makes politics interesting and with informative political reporting. His spectrum of media, ranging from academic published many books and articles and changing social attitudes. relevant to his readers. The judges coverage of the 1992 election campaign books and journals to newspapers and was the co-author of How Britain Votes recognised that, irrespective of their own was perhaps crucial in ensuring Labour’s television. Always at the cutting edge of (1985), Understanding Political Change views, Trevor Kavanagh adopts a clear defeat; the paper’s claim that it was ‘the psephological analysis and interpretation, (1991), On Message (1999), and The Rise Euro-sceptic line which deserves respect Sun wot won it’ was not without some reflected in the quality of his publications, of New Labour (2001). He was co-editor for the straightforward way it is written and truth. Professor Curtice also offers an engaging, of Labour’s Last Chance (1994). John presented. He also enjoyed the political all-too-rare, ability to convey ideas in Curtice has stimulated lively debate on scoop of the year – the advance revelation Mr Kavanagh describes himself self- readable or watchable form to a wide the continuing relevance of social class in of Lord Hutton’s exoneration of the deprecatingly as a “fig leaf for page audience, a vital skill if interest in politics is British voting behaviour. He has been an government over the Gilligan affair. three”. However, along with entertaining to be heightened among the public. His editor of the British Social Attitudes series a readership of over eleven million with clarity of articulation has assisted since 1994, providing easily accessible his sharp and provocative columns, he has academics, politicians and voters. information drawn from survey data. been responsible for some key scoops. In 2001, for example, he correctly His expertise in the field of survey data announced the date of the general and psephology led John Curtice to the election. Last year he broke the story that position of co-director of the British Lord Hutton’s report would point the General Election Study between 1983 finger squarely at the BBC. Other papers and 1987 and to his appointment as were either uncertain or downright deputy director for the ESRC funded sceptical when it came to Kavanagh’s Centre for Research into Elections and insistence that the report would Social Trends (CREST) in 1994. At exonerate the government, but he was Strathclyde he is the director of the vindicated on its publication. Social Statistics Laboratory. He was a member of the Market Research Society’s Trevor Kavanagh argues that the Sun inquiry into the performance of the supported Margaret Thatcher because of

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Political Studies Association Awards 2004 Political Studies Association Awards 2004 Lifetime Achievement in Politics RT HON KENNETH CLARKE QC MP

Kenneth Clarke was born in Nottingham Education and Science between 1990 and in July 1940. He read law at Gonville and 1992, then was made Home Secretary, Caius College, Cambridge and was called and finally served as Chancellor of the to the bar by Gray’s Inn in 1963. He Exchequer from May 1993 until the Tories practised law on the Midland Circuit and were defeated in 1997. became a QC in 1980. Whilst building his legal career he was also pursuing his Kenneth Clarke stood for election as political ambitions, which had already leader of the Conservative Party in both revealed themselves at Cambridge, where 1997 and 2001, but was unsuccessful on he served as Chairman of the Cambridge both occasions. Despite his great personal University Conservative Association and popularity, it seems he had undermined THE JUDGES SAY of the Federation of Conservative his own leadership chances by his This award recognises the enormous Students. He unsuccessfully contested the passionate championing of the UK’s contribution that Kenneth Clarke has made seat of Mansfield in 1964 and 1966 membership of the European Community. to British politics during the last four before being elected MP for Rushcliffe in He has never altered this stance, and decades. During his periods in government, 1970, gaining the seat from Labour. recently called for the Conservative Party he introduced important changes at a to be more calm-headed and positive variety of ministries, including Health, As parliamentary private secretary to about the proposed EU Constitution. He Education and the Treasury. The judges also Geoffrey Howe, the Solicitor General in argued that “ultimately, there is no future recognised Mr Clarke’s principled stance Edward Heath’s government, Kenneth for Britain as a semi-detached member of on the United Kingdom’s position within Clarke became involved in European the EU – we must choose to be in or out. the European Union, and his articulation of issues, working on the European To turn our backs on the EU would be intelligent and thoughtful conservative Community Enabling Legislation. He was disastrous for Britain – seriously principles. appointed Assistant Government Whip in diminishing our living standards and our 1972 and was then posted to the place in the world”. Treasury, although his first position here was cut short after one month by the Noted for his love of jazz and the Conservative defeat in the February 1974 occasional cigar, his support for election. Whilst in opposition he served as Nottingham Forest Football Club and his a spokesman for social services and bird-watching hobby, Mr Clarke has been industry. a major figure in British politics for many years. The consistency of his arguments, The Conservative governments of the his refusal to compromise on his views on 1980s and 1990s were responsible for the European Union, and his lengthy far-reaching changes in health, education service within successive Conservative and economic policy, and Kenneth Clarke administrations, make him a fitting was at the forefront of this work, holding winner of the 2004 award for Lifetime a number of key positions. He became Achievement in Politics. Minister for Health in 1982 and was then appointed Paymaster General and Minister of Employment in 1985, returning to Health as Secretary in 1988. After the leadership victory of John Major, Mr Clarke served as Secretary of State for

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