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PSA Awards 2009

PSA Awards 2009

POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION AWARDS 2009 24 NOVEMBER 2009 Institute of Directors, 116 Pall Mall, SW1Y 5ED

Welcome I am delighted to be able to welcome you to the 2009 Political Studies Association Awards Ceremony.

The Political Studies Association is the main association in the UK responsible for developing and promoting political studies. Its growing membership now numbers over 1700 and there has been a parallel increase in the range of its publications, activities and specialist groups. Next year will see the Association’s sixtieth anniversary, to be celebrated in a variety of ways, including special publications and events. As part of these celebrations, in 2010 the Association will launch a new magazine publication, Political Insight, to present political research in an accessible manner to a broader audience.

This is the eighth Awards Ceremony to be held by the Association. Each year the Awards Ceremony provides an opportunity to recognise those academics, journalists and politicians who have made an exceptional contribution to public political life either over the preceding year, or over the duration of their careers. This last year has presented unusually demanding challenges, most strikingly in relation to the economic crisis and then the crisis of public confidence in parliament. For many of the award categories the jury had to decide between a large number of nominations. However particular individuals stood out in terms of fulfilling the awards criteria and they are our winners .

As ever thanks are due to all those who have helped to make the Awards Ceremony possible. Thanks go to our jurors and to Professor Lord Bhikhu Parekh for hosting the jurors’ meeting. Likewise to Simon Hoggart who is our Master of Ceremonies. Organisational planning and continuity are largely due to PSA members Andrew Russell and Katharine Adeney, Emma Forster and Sue Forster in the PSA National Office and Simon Coote of Alive Events. And we thank the ESRC, Wiley- Blackwell and the Hansard Society for their generous sponsorship.

We congratulate our award winners and wish everybody attending a thoroughly enjoyable occasion.

Professor Vicky Randall Chair, Political Studies Association of the

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Political Studies Association Awards 2009 Parliamentarian of the Year DR TONY WRIGHT MP

Tony Wright’s distinguished political career He was elected to the House of Commons supplanted a promising academic career in 1992 as Labour MP for Cannock and in political science. After gaining a First Burntwood, and since 1997 he has been Class BSc in Government at the London MP for Cannock Chase. From 1997 to School of Economics he won a Kennedy 1998, he served as Parliamentary Private scholarship to Harvard and subsequently Secretary to the former Lord Chancellor, gained his doctorate at Balliol College, Lord Irvine. Since 1999 Dr Wright has Oxford in 1973. After a two year spell at chaired the Public Administration Select Bangor, Dr Wright went on to lecture in Committee, which oversees the work of politics at the University of Birmingham the Parliamentary Ombudsman and the from 1975 to 1992. He is now an civil service. Earlier this year the THE JUDGES SAY honorary professor of the university. government accepted a proposal from Dr Dr Tony Wright MP was the unanimous Wright to ‘work with a special choice of the jury for Parliamentarian of the A long-serving co-editor of The Political parliamentary commission comprising Year. He was elected as an MP in 1992 and Quarterly, Dr Wright has written many Members from all sides of this House, the panel particularly commended his books, articles and pamphlets. The focus convened for a defined period to advise achievements as chair of the Public of much of his work has been on the on necessary reforms, including making Administration Select Committee from 1999. history, ideology and future of the Labour Select Committee processes more It observed how under his watch the Party, but he also has a long standing democratic, scheduling more and better Committee has worked hard to hold interest in constitutional issues, and for non-Government business in the government to account and through its contributed a chapter on the British House, and enabling the public to initiate inquiries and reports, such as those on constitution to the book Party Ideology in directly some issues for debate’. lobbying, and good government, Britain (1989) which he edited with demonstrated the analytic parliamentary Leonard Tivey. More recently he has The resulting Select Committee on the function at its finest. Given this track record published articles on parliamentary reform Reform of the House of Commons begins it is a tribute but no surprise that he has been in Talking Politics (1997), Parliamentary its work at the start of this parliamentary asked to chair the important new Affairs (2004), Prospect (2004) and i session, and will continue until the end of commission on the reform of Parliament. (2009). Other recent publications include the parliament, focusing on a range British Politics: A Very Short Introduction proposed reforms including giving the (2003), the Fabian pamphlet A New Social public the means to initiate debates and Contract: From Targets to Rights in Public proceedings in the House. Given the Services, and Restating the State? (co- experience, expertise and energy of its editor, 2004). chairman this committee will undoubtedly be one to watch. Dr Wright has a long history of involvement in political activity both inside and outside parliament. He has been co-chair of the Campaign for Freedom of Information, chair of the Fabian Society, and chair of the Centre for Public Scrutiny. He currently co-chairs the Constitution, Parliament and Citizenship Associate Parliamentary Group.

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Political Studies Association Awards 2009 Political Studies Communication Award PROFESSOR ROBERT HAZELL

Born in 1948 and educated at Eton and Hazell was keen to ensure that the Wadham College, Oxford, Robert Hazell government could learn from failed might have been destined to retire as a attempts to achieve these objectives in very senior civil servant. But instead of the 1960s and 1970s, and consulted administering the political system from everyone involved in the earlier failures to within, the focus of his career in the past draw their lessons together. two decades has been on reforming it from the outside. He began his career as He has served in a number of other public a barrister in 1973, before moving into roles: from 1991 to 2000 he was a the civil service where he worked at the trustee of the Citizenship Foundation; from 1975 to 1989. He from 1992 to 1995 he was vice chairman THE JUDGES SAY worked in the Immigration Department, of the Association of Charitable The jury’s choice for this year’s Political the Policy Planning Unit, the Gaming Foundations; from 2002 to 2003 he was Studies Communication Award was Board, the Race Relations Department, vice chairman of Professor Robert Hazell. As Director of the the Broadcasting Department, and the Commission on Proportional Constitution Unit at University College Police and Prison Departments. From Representation. He has been a member of London, since 1995, he has consistently 1986 to 1987 he undertook a Civil the Council of the Hansard Society since worked to develop the constitutional reform Service travelling fellowship to study 1997 and was vice chairman of its agenda, to communicate these ideas to freedom of information in Australia, Commission on the Scrutiny Role of government and more generally to inject Canada and New Zealand. After leaving Parliament in 2001. academic rigour and principle into public the Home Office in 1989 he was director debate. The panel further noted the scope of the Nuffield Foundation, a grant giving Professor Hazell has published numerous and timeliness of his reform interests, charitable trust, for six years. books and journal articles, including including , freedom of Devolution, Law Making and the information, and reform of the House of In 1995 he founded the Constitution Unit Constitution (2005) and The English Lords. within the School of Public Policy at Question (2006), and articles on English University College, London, where he is regional government, the dynamism of Professor of Government and the constitutional reform in the UK, Constitution. As Director of the Westminster as a three-in-one , Constitution Unit Professor Hazell has the absence of the courts in devolution been involved in every stage of the disputes, the need for better government’s constitutional reform parliamentary scrutiny of constitutional programme. The unit has published bills, and parliament as a constitutional reports on devolution, reform of . He was awarded the Haldane , parliamentary reform, Medal by the Royal Institute of Public human rights legislation, freedom of Administration in 1978 and has been a information legislation, and electoral Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts since reform, which have influenced and guided 1991. In 2006 he was awarded the CBE in government policy. The unit’s value as an recognition of his services to advisory body has been demonstrated constitutional reform. repeatedly. An early success was the passage of devolution legislation and the reform of the House of Lords soon after Labour came to power in 1997. Professor

Political Studies Association Awards 2009 Lifetime Achievement in Politics Award RT HON AM

The son of a Professor of Welsh at the In the 1999 Assembly elections, Mr Morgan University of , Mr Morgan was a won the seat of West and was natural choice to head the Welsh Assembly appointed Secretary for Economic during its formative early years. Born in Development and European Affairs in the Cardiff in 1939, he studied PPE at St John’s first Welsh administration. Less than a year College, Oxford, before gaining an MA at later the leadership of the Harvard. His first job was with the Workers’ Party once again became vacant, and Mr Educational Association. In 1965 he Morgan stood again, this time succeeding embarked on a career in local and national in becoming both his party’s leader and government. From 1974 to 1980 he was First Secretary of the Assembly. In October industrial development officer for South 2000 the Welsh Assembly was brought into THE JUDGES SAY Glamorgan County Council, and between line with the other devolved assemblies The jury chose Rhodri Morgan for a Lifetime 1980 and 1987 headed the European and he took the title of First Minister. Achievement in Politics Award in view of his Commission Office in Wales. major contribution to political life in the UK In nearly ten years in that office Mr and especially to the recent development At the 1987 election he stood successfully Morgan has presided over successive of Welsh politics and the Welsh Assembly. for Labour in the Cardiff West seat. His coalition governments – first in partnership Having served as a Labour MP in the British talent was quickly spotted and within a with the Liberal Democrats, and, since Parliament from 1987 he chose to step year he was selected to serve as 2007, with – with style and down in 2001 in order to devote his spokesman on energy, before moving to charisma. He rates the reform of primary energies to the new Welsh Assembly. He is a Welsh affairs. After Labour came to power education in Wales as one of his and the committed supporter of Welsh devolution. in 1997 he chaired the Select Committee Assembly’s proudest achievements. Mr He subsequently became First Minister of on Public Administration. The year 1997 Morgan has announced that he will step the Assembly in 2000. In this role he has also saw approval in a referendum for the down as First Minister and leader of his consistently demonstrated his willingness idea of a Welsh Assembly, a goal Mr party in December, although he will to distance himself from aspects of Labour Morgan had long supported. Unlike continue as an Assembly Member until the Government policy and look for ‘Welsh , Wales had no clear blueprint for next elections in 2011. Characteristically, he solutions for Welsh problems’. the shape such an assembly might take, plans to use the time to work much harder and Mr Morgan was closely involved in the in the interests of his constituents. subsequent deliberations, pressing for both Described by Welsh Secretary Peter Hain as proportional representation and the ‘the father of Welsh devolution’, Mr adoption of more women candidates. Morgan has left a unique stamp on the politics of Wales that will not easily be In 1998 Mr Morgan stood for the erased. leadership of the Welsh , but lost to Ron Davies. The following year Davies was forced to step down following a scandal, but Mr Morgan once again narrowly failed to take the leadership, and the near-certainty of becoming the country’s first directly elected leader, this time losing to Alun Michael.

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Political Studies Association Awards 2009 Lifetime Achievement in Politics Award THE RT HON REVEREND IAN PAISLEY

Ian Paisley is a towering figure in the minority party, able to influence but politics of whose fierce unable to determine the outcome of espousal of unionist principles sits in negotiations that culminated in the 1998 balance with his vehement adherence to and the his faith. He has served as a member of establishment of a new Northern Ireland parliament for nearly 40 years, sat in the Assembly based on power sharing and for a quarter of a cross-border co-operation. century, and was Northern Ireland’s First Minister from 2007 to 2008. He has been The position was reversed, however, when a Privy Councillor since 2006. in 2003 the DUP emerged from elections as the Assembly’s largest party, just as THE JUDGES SAY After studying at the South Wales Bible Sinn Fein supplanted the SDLP as the his long political career extending over 50 College in Barry and the Reformed largest Nationalist party. It presented the years and his major on the Theological Hall in Belfast, Ian Paisley was fledgling parliament with its moment of development of Northern Irish politics. ordained in 1946. Five years later he truth. There could be no doubt that the Though long renowned for his unwavering became moderator of the Free future of Northern Ireland’s power commitment to Unionism and hard line Presbyterian Church of Ulster, of which he sharing arrangements, and the prospects position, latterly he played a significant was also a founder. As a Protestant for peace and security in the whole role in the Irish peace process and from minister Dr Paisley was deeply critical of region, rested in the hands of Dr Paisley. 2007 to 2008 he served as First Minister in what he saw as misguided moves towards His price for co-operating with Sinn Fein Northern Ireland’s new power sharing ecumenicalism among other in government was nothing less than the government. As such Ian Paisley is an denominations. As an emerging politician destruction of all IRA weapons. Such a enduring reminder of the triumph of both he opposed increasing accommodation move was widely viewed as politically personal conviction and principled between Northern Ireland’s government impossible. The news, in September 2006, compromise over violence and hatred. and the government of the Republic. In that disarmament had finally been 1969 he stood against the Stormont achieved cleared the way for Dr Paisley’s Parliament’s prime minister, Terence DUP to serve in government with Sinn O’Neill, in his Bannside constituency, Fein. Having guided the Northern Ireland narrowly failing to unseat him. O’Neill’s government through its sternest test, career was fatally damaged by the while keeping faith with his own personal episode and he retired from the principles, Dr Paisley’s place in history as parliament the following year, to be one of Northern Ireland’s greatest succeeded – following a by-election – by politicians is assured. his nemesis, Ian Paisley.

Later in 1970, at the general election, Dr Paisley was returned to Westminster for the constituency of North Antrim, a seat he still holds. He founded the Democratic Unionist Party in 1971. Over the next 30 years he consistently opposed all moves to bring Northern Ireland into a closer relationship with the Republic. For the whole of that period the DUP remained a

Political Studies Association Awards 2009 Influencing the Political Agenda Award

In her campaign to achieve residency Democrat motion that retiring status for retired Gurkhas, Joanna Lumley before 1997 should be offered residency proved she was more than a match for the rights was passed in defiance of the most seasoned of political operators. Her government. attachment to the cause springs from her father’s long association with the 6th Shortly afterwards Ms Lumley held talks Rifles. Major James Rutherford with both the immigration minister Phil Lumley was serving with the regiment in Woolas and the Prime Minister, Gordon , India when Ms Lumley was born Brown, with the aim of assuring a positive in 1946. Ms Lumley was educated at St outcome for the Gurkhas’ campaign. On 20 Mary’s School, Hastings before beginning a May the announced that THE JUDGES SAY career in modelling. She posed for, among all Gurkha veterans who had completed The jury chose Joanna Lumley for an others, Patrick Lichfield, and also worked four years’ service before 1997 would be Influencing the Political Agenda award, with designer . By the end of the allowed to settle in Britain. Following the because of her outstandingly effective 1960s she was one of the top ten models campaign’s victory Ms Lumley travelled to campaign on behalf of the Gurkhas. The in Britain. Her early acting career included the Gurkhas’ home country, Nepal, where celebrated actress, whose father served for appearances in a number of films including she received a hero’s welcome. 30 years with the 6th Gurkha Rifles, has been On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, and on a leader of the television in series such as Steptoe and Son, In addition to her work for the Gurkha championing the right of Gurkha pensioners and Are You Being campaign Ms Lumley has been active in to settle in Britain. Through her persistence, Served? But her big break came in 1976 support of a number of other causes, charm and media appeal, and skill in when she starred alongside including Compassion in World Farming, exploiting apparent miscommunications in The New Avengers, a revival of the iconic the Born Free Foundation, the Free Tibet within government, she succeeded in 1960s TV series. Another hit series in which Campaign and Mind. Ms Lumley is a Fellow appealing to the Prime Minister himself and she starred, Sapphire and Steel, debuted in of the Royal Geographical Society and has extracting major concessions for the Gurkha 1979 and ran for three years. She was received an honorary degree from the cause. spectacularly successful as Patsy in the and honorary series , as a foil doctorates from the and to ’s Edina. Queen’s University Belfast. She was awarded the OBE in 1995. When the plight of the Gurkha veterans hit the headlines in 2008, Joanna Lumley used all her powers of charm and persuasion to influence the government to change its policy. Gurkhas who served in the before 1997, unlike those serving since then, had been denied the right to settle in the United Kingdom. In November 2008, Ms Lumley led a march from to Downing Street to present the prime minister with a petition signed by a quarter of a million people. The momentum of support for the Gurkhas’ cause increased and in April 2008 a Liberal

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Political Studies Association Awards 2009 Influencing the Political Agenda HEATHER BROOKE

The parliamentary expenses scandal that Following a five year battle, Ms Brooke has dominated the news since the Daily finally prevailed at a hearing in the High Telegraph began its exposés in May might Court in May 2008. It would be a further never have come to light if it had not year before the expenses claims she had been for the work of Heather Brooke. fought so long to gain access to finally Born in in 1970 to parents came to light, in the form of documents who had emigrated from Merseyside, Ms leaked to in advance Brooke enjoys dual US and UK citizenship. of their official publication. As a result of She was educated at Federal Way High Ms Brooke’s efforts, a wholesale reform of School near Seattle, Washington, and the parliamentary expenses is now under University of Seattle, where she studied way. THE JUDGES SAY communications with a minor in political The judges chose Heather Brooke for an science. While a student she worked Among other work in the public interest, Influencing the Political Agenda award, in extensively on the University of Ms Brooke served as UK project director view of her tireless and inspiring campaign to Washington Daily, a student newspaper, of the Open Society Justice Initiative’s bring details of MPs’ expenses to light. With before graduating in 1993. Later, as a anti-corruption survey in which she a background in American journalism, she reporter for the Spokesman-Review in monitored the accountability of three pursued a 5-year legal battle using the new Washington state, she used the state large public-sector projects: the London Freedom of Information Act. Her actions freedom of information law to uncover 2012 Olympics, the NHS Programme for paved the way for the flood of recent politicians’ misuse of public funds for IT and the oil extraction industry. Several revelations and she has provided a role travel and personal election campaigning. of her findings have led to major news model for investigative journalism. In South Carolina, working for the stories. Spartanburg Herald-Journal, she uncovered flaws in the state’s forensic crime lab and exposed dangerous practices in funeral homes. Both investigations resulted in changes to state law.

After several years as a crime reporter she decided to return to , where she had lived briefly as a teenager, to study English literature at the University of Warwick, before starting a new career as a publicist, working for the BBC. In 2004 she published Your Right to Know, a citizens’ guide to using the Freedom of Information Act and accessing official information.

It was Ms Brooke’s successful campaign to force the House of Commons to disclose full information about MPs’ second home allowances that cleared the way for the Daily Telegraph campaign.

Political Studies Association Awards 2009 Backbencher of the Year RT HON DAVID DAVIS MP

In the jury’s view, David Davis has used In 1987 Mr Davis stood successfully for the backbenches to telling effect, bringing the parliamentary seat of Boothferry. He the issues of liberty and freedom to the became parliamentary private secretary fore of public debate. He has made both to Francis Maude, under-secretary at the his own party and the Government think Department of Trade and Industry, in again about the loss of personal freedoms 1989, then served as a whip from 1990 and demonstrated that parliament does to 1993. He was parliamentary secretary indeed matter. at the Office of Public Service and Science from 1993 to 1994, and was Westminster and the political classes minister of state for Europe from 1994 were shocked by David Davis’s decision in until the general election of 1997. At that THE JUDGES SAY June 2008 to resign both his post as election he contested and won the seat David Davis was the unanimous choice of shadow home secretary and his seat in of Haltemprice and Howden. the jury for Backbencher of the Year. The parliament in protest at what he called panel commended his courageous decision the ‘slow strangulation of fundamental After Labour came to power, Mr Davis to resign as Conservative Shadow Home British freedoms’. Perhaps they should served for four years as chairman of the Minister and as an MP in order to provoke a not have been: Mr Davis has always held House of Commons Public Accounts wider debate concerning what he saw as personal principles in much higher esteem committee. He became Chairman of the the erosion of civil liberties in the UK, after than party politics. He comes from an Conservative Party in September 2001, the introduction of a 42-day pre-charge activist background: his grandfather was a and the following year joined the detention period. In the resulting by- communist who in the 1930s joined the Conservative front bench shadowing John election he successfully made this a Jarrow hunger march. Mr Davis was the Prescott’s role at the Office of the campaigning issue and was re-elected the son of a single mother who lived on Deputy Prime Minister. He was appointed following month. As a backbencher he has council estate, while his stepfather was a Shadow Home Secretary in November continued to campaign for civil liberties, shop steward at Battersea power station. 2003, a post he continued to hold until most recently raising the case of Rangzieb He attended Bec Grammar School, his resignation in 2008. Following the Ahmed, a British resident tortured in Tooting, then worked as an insurance Conservatives’ 2005 election defeat, Mr and Morocco with the alleged clerk while raising money to continue his Davis stood for the leadership of the complicity of British intelligence. education. At the same time he enrolled party and was for a time the front runner, in the Territorial Army where he was a before eventually losing with good grace member of 21 SAS Regiment. to .

After studying molecular science and His stand on the Labour Government’s computer science at the University of legislation to increase the term for which Warwick Mr Davis went on to gain an terror suspects could be held without MSc at London Business School, where he charge to 42 days led him to resign his became National Chairman of the post on the Conservative front bench and Federation of Conservative Students. He his parliamentary seat, sparking a by- started work for Tate & Lyle after election which he fought on the issue of graduating in 1974, rising to become civil liberties. He regained his seat with strategic planning director ten years later. 71 per cent of the vote. Back in He was a member of the CBI’s financial parliament as a backbencher, he has policy committee from 1977 to 1979. In continued to speak out on the issue, 1984-5 he completed the Advanced recently lambasting the government for Management Programme at Harvard allegedly condoning torture in other Business School. countries.

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Political Studies Association Awards 2009 Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies PROFESSOR RICHARD ROSE

Richard Rose was born in 1933 and grew appeared earlier this year. In 2007 up in St Louis, Missouri. His early Professor Rose was one of a small group ambition was to become a journalist. of experts called on to offer President After receiving his BA in two years – half George W. Bush a new perspective on the the normal period of study – he left for situation in . Given three minutes to England where he enrolled abortively as put his point across, he related the Iraqi an MSc student in the London School of position to that of Northern Ireland in Economics. Robert McKenzie supervised 1969. A divided society, he told Bush – his thesis, but Rose abandoned it in order quoting Max Weber – ‘can be a stable to revert to his original plan of society – provided that there is a state journalism. that has a monopoly of the institutions THE JUDGES SAY of violence and prevents foreign and Professor Richard Rose was the jury’s After a spell on the St Louis Post- armed incursions across its borders’. Until unanimous choice for the Sir Isaiah Berlin Dispatch, in 1957 Rose once again that condition was met, the implication Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political departed for England, this time to embark was, the Iraqi problem would persist. Studies. Over his long professional life, on a DPhil. His thesis examined the spanning almost five decades, his disjuncture between the British Labour As well as his own research, Professor contribution to the field of political studies Party’s foreign policy in opposition and its Rose has provided help and inspiration to has been phenomenal. He has been actions in government. He completed the many other political scientists and has extraordinarily prolific. Many of his works thesis in 1959. The following year he was been a leading figure in establishing are essential reading and help to define the co-author with David Butler of The British professional networks within the political discipline, across a range of subjects, General Election of 1959, and with Mark science . He co-founded the including but not confined to, comparative Abrams of Must Labour Lose?, but it was European Consortium for Political parties and elections, the politics of the not until 1961 that he embarked on his Research, and the British Politics Group of UK, the growth of government and career as a political scientist, after being the American Political Science comparative public policy. At the same offered a job in the Department of Association, devoting many years of time he has contributed significantly to the Government at the University of service to these and other organizations. development of political studies as a Manchester. Rose lectured in Manchester Among many honours bestowed on him profession, in recognition of which the for five years before being appointed to Professor Rose has received the Policy Political Studies Association made him an the politics chair at the University of Studies Organization’s Lasswell Lifetime Honorary Vice-President in 1986 and Strathclyde, which was to be his home for Achievement Award and the Robert presented him with a Lifetime Achievement the next 39 years. In 2005 Rose moved to Marjolin AMEX Prize for International Award in 2000. the University of Aberdeen as Professor of Economics. He is a Fellow of the British Politics. Academy, an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and A prolific output has included many Sciences and an Honorary Doctor of standard works on British and European Örebru University, Sweden. Earlier this politics; Professor Rose’s recent year Professor Rose received the 2009 publications include works in areas as Dogan Foundation Prize in Political diverse as comparative parties and Sociology, awarded jointly by the elections, comparative public policy, e- Fondation Mattei Dogan and the government, EU expansion and patterns European Consortium of Political of smoking in Russia. His 39th book, Research for his major contribution to the Understanding Post-Communist advancement of the field. Transformation: A Bottom Up Approach,

Political Studies Association Awards 2009 International Politician of the Year

Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, American history. As a senator Obama Hawaii, in August 1961. His mother was introduced legislation to restrict the from Kansas, his father a government availability worldwide of conventional economist from Kenya. His grandparents weapons and established helped bring him up. He worked his way USAspending.gov, a website designed to through Columbia University and spent improve the transparency of public four years working with disadvantaged spending by the federal government. He black families on ’s south side. He served on several committees including attended Harvard Law School, where at Foreign Relations, Environment and Public the age of 28 he was to become the first Works, and Homeland Security and black president of the Harvard Law Governmental Affairs. THE JUDGES SAY Review. President Barack Obama was the In February 2007 he announced his unequivocal choice of the jury for On graduating from law school with a candidacy for president in Springfield, International Politician of the Year. There was Juris Doctor magna cum laude he Illinois on the spot where, three years overwhelming recognition of the extent to returned to Chicago where he continued before the start of the American Civil which, during his electoral campaign and to work for local communities while War, Abraham Lincoln had warned the following his election last November as the teaching constitutional law at the country of the danger it faced in allowing new US President, he has broken the mould University of Chicago. From 1993 he was slavery to drive a wedge between of American politics as well as constructively an associate at a firm of lawyers northern and southern states. The engaging with the international community. specialising in civil rights litigation. He subsequent whittling down of Democratic The jury commended his skilful and served on the boards of a number of presidential candidates pitched Obama enlightened political leadership at a time of charitable foundations. directly against former first lady and New successive global crises. York Senate colleague . At Obama’s political career began in the first the underdog, Obama turned the Illinois state legislature, where he was tables on Clinton by a combination of elected to the state senate in 1996, and skilful fund raising and adept marketing. over the next eight years was His candidacy was confirmed at the instrumental in passing a number of Democratic Convention in August 2008. pieces of important social legislation. In In November he defeated the Republican 2003 he was appointed chairman of the candidate, John McCain, by 53 to 46 per Health and Human Services Committee. cent. The following year he stood for the US senate, one of fifteen candidates to enter The first months of the Obama the primaries following a decision by the presidency have been characterised by incumbent Republican senator and his the continuing controversy over the previous Democrat challenger not to run economy and America’s overseas military again. Of the seven candidates in the engagements. Nevertheless, Obama has Democratic primary Obama won cleared away many of the negatives handsomely with 53 per cent of the vote. associated with America following the eight-year administration of his In the election of November 2004 predecessor George Bush. His recent Obama defeated the Republican award of the 2009 is candidate, Alan Heyes, by a record margin symbolic of the esteem in which Barack to become only the fifth black senator in Obama is held around the world.

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Political Studies Association Awards 2009 Special Recognition Award ALICE BROWN

Professor Alice Brown became a political process. Among the innovations she scientist by an unusual route. Born in 1946, brought to the complaints procedure were she left school at the age of 15 to take a the ability to make complaints in person, job at an insurance company and then left and in different languages and formats, work to raise a family. She returned to rather than simply through traditional education in her thirties, when she enrolled letter-writing. She strove to encourage a as a politics student at the University of ‘culture of service’, where complaints . She began lecturing in would be seen by those in public offices as Economics at the University of Stirling in ‘jewels to be treasured’ rather than as 1984, moving back to a post at Edinburgh ‘duels to be fought.’ the following year. She gained her PhD in THE JUDGES SAY 1990, then began a meteoric rise, Professor Brown stepped down as Professor Alice Brown was chosen to becoming a senior lecturer in 1992, Head ombudsman earlier this year, but continues receive a Special Recognition Award in light of Department by 1995 and Professor of to have oversight over public service of her exceptional contribution to the Politics in 1997. Her publications include provision as a member of the study of Scottish politics over an extended Gender Equality in Scotland (1997); The Administrative Justice and Tribunals period, together with her important impact Scottish Electorate (1999); and The New Council, whose purpose is to help make on policy. The jury commended her deft Scottish Politics (2002). administrative justice and tribunals elision of the theory and practice of increasingly accessible, fair and effective. politics. The combination of her research From 1999 Professor Brown was Vice Among other public roles, Professor Brown findings and advocacy of women’s political Principal of Edinburgh University, and she chaired the Task Force on Community representation helped to ensure the was also co-director of its Institute of Planning in Scotland and served on the promotion of this cause in the context of Governance. Also in 1999 she was Scottish Low Pay Unit as well as the Scottish devolution. As Professor, then appointed to the Committee on Standards Economic and Social Research Council and Vice-Principal of Edinburgh University and in Public Life, on which she served for four the Scottish Higher Education Funding as Scottish Public Services Ombudsman years. She was central to efforts to Council. She is currently a Sunningdale she has helped to shape constitutional establish a woman-friendly parliament in Fellow, Trustee of the David Hume Institute, debate and policy within the UK. Scotland, first as a member of the Scottish and lay member of the Royal College of Constitutional Commission and later as a Physicians of Edinburgh. member of the cross-party committee which proposed standing orders and procedures for the . Professor Brown was a co-founder of Engender, a group set up to promote women’s influence in Scotland, and was a member of the Scottish Women’s Coordination Group.

In 2002 she was appointed as the first ever Scottish Public Services Ombudsman. The office of ombudsman was set up to provide a single channel for all public complaints against a number of public bodies and improve the efficiency of the complaints

Political Studies Association Awards 2009 Special Recognition Award PROFESSOR DAVID DENVER

As one of the foremost psephologists in forthcoming changes to the boundaries of Britain, David Denver has for years been a Scottish Parliament constituencies. familiar figure to newspaper readers and television and radio audiences, particularly Professor Denver has a long record of in his native Scotland. But his contribution promoting and encouraging the work of to the literature, teaching and younger political scientists and has worked communication of political science over unstintingly to promote political science the past forty years has been immense. through the Political Studies Association. He was an elected member of its council David Denver was born in Ayrshire in 1944. from 1988 to 1994 and again from 1999 He was brought up in Ardrossan, Ayrshire, to 2008. He is also closely associated with THE JUDGES SAY where his father was a shipyard worker. He its Elections, Public Opinion and Parties The jury chose Professor David Denver for a was educated at the University of Dundee, group (EPOP) and was convenor of the Special Recognition Award in light of his and had his first job in political science as EPOP conferences for nearly a decade, major contribution to political studies. Jury a research assistant there from 1967 to from 1993 to 2001. He chairs the editorial members noted his widely acknowledged 1969. In that year he took up a lectureship board of the Journal of Elections, Public professionalism and excellence in both in the Department of Politics and Opinion and Parties. teaching and research. They commented on International Relations at the University of his unrivalled ability to set the standard in Lancaster, where he still works. He was In his spare time Professor Denver sings in British election studies, question received senior lecturer from 1990, reader in the Lancaster University choir. Given his wisdoms and render the complexities of his politics from 1996, and has been professor origins it is no surprise that his other field accessible to students. They also noted of politics since 1997. interests include golf, Robert Burns and his important work to make electoral Presbyterianism. Perhaps more surprisingly, research accessible to a range of audiences Over the years his publications have been he is also an enthusiast for real beer. via EPOP and his encouragement of younger some of those most frequently used in the members of the profession. The jury noted teaching of political science. His book that David Denver is seldom short of Elections and Voters in Britain is widely opinions but they are always shared with acknowledged as the best introductory good humour and more often than not with textbook on elections and voting telling wit. behaviour. As co-author of the long- running British Elections and Parties Yearbook, later known as British Elections and Parties Review, he collaborated with many established and up-and-coming political scientists.

His analyses of the great changes that took place with the introduction of devolution to Scotland are widely respected, and he has continued to monitor Scottish politics from his vantage point not too far the other side of the border. He is currently working with undiminished enthusiasm on the

Political Studies Association Award Winners 2009

Political Studies Association Awards 2009 Best Political Satire GERALD SCARFE

Gerald Scarfe was born in London. After a and has published a number of brief period at the Royal College of Art in books of his work, the most recent of London, he established himself as a which are: Heroes & Villains – Scarfe at the satirical cartoonist, working for Punch National Portrait Gallery, about which the magazine and Private Eye during the early BBC produced a documentary film based sixties, and in 1967 he began a long on Scarfe’s work, and Drawing Blood: 40 association with the Sunday Times as their Years of Scarfe Uncensored. His latest political cartoonist, also carrying out book, Monsters: How George Bush Saved reportage assignments in Vietnam, the The World And Other Tall Stories, was Middle East, India and Northern Ireland. published in November 2007.

THE JUDGES SAY Scarfe has had many exhibitions of his Gerald Scarfe has now been political The jury chose cartoonist Gerald Scarfe for work worldwide, including New York, cartoonist for the London Sunday Times an award for Best Political Satire, in Osaka, Montreal, Los Angeles, Sydney, for 42 years, and has also worked for The recognition of his extraordinary images, Melbourne, Chicago and London, and New Yorker magazine for 17 years. His which have influenced the way that we see more than 50 one-man shows. His most work regularly appears in many politics. In a career that has spanned nearly recent exhibitions were at Portcullis periodicals in the UK and worldwide. He 50 years, 42 of them employed as House, Westminster, and in Moritzburg, was made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday cartoonist for the Sunday Times, Gerald Germany. Scarfe has designed the sets Honours, 2008. Scarfe has combined creative anger and and costumes for many plays, operas and superb draughtsmanship to produce his own musicals in London, Houston, Los Angeles, distinctive and iconic depictions of political , Seattle, and New Zealand. vice. His particular targets have included Scarfe has collaborated with Los Angeles greed, hypocrisy and sycophancy, and his Opera several times, including the designs contemporary images continue to hit home, for Fantastic Mr Fox, and The Magic Flute. for instance in his rendering of the path to He designed the sets and costumes for victory in made up of Union Orpheus in the Underworld, for the Jack-covered coffins. English National Opera at the London Coliseum, later remounted in Detroit, Houston and Los Angeles. He also designed the English National Ballet production of The Nutcracker, which was in their Christmas repertoire for the past 5 years.

His film work includes Walt Disney’s Hercules, and he designed and directed the animation sequences for the film of ’s The Wall, as well as the live concerts. On television he created the opening title sequences for Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister. Scarfe has written, directed and appeared in many live action and documentary films for the BBC and

Political Studies Association Awards 2009 Best Political Satire JON STEWART

THE DAILY SHOW

Born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz in 1961, show in an hour-long, late-night version it Jon Stewart was brought up New . was killed off by scheduling misfortunes He studied psychology at William and and was cancelled in 1995. Following a Mary College in Williamsburg, , series of other engagements, including where he also played on the soccer team. appearances on the Larry Sanders show, After graduating in 1984 he had a string Stewart was chosen to replace original of jobs, among them barman and host Craig Kilborn on The Daily Show puppeteer. He was fired from one job, when Kilborn left in 1998. Since then he stocking shelves at Woolworths, by his has written, produced and starred in well brother Larry, the store manager, for over a thousand episodes of the show. larking around. THE JUDGES SAY The Daily Show was first broadcast on This year the jury has chosen Jon Stewart A talent for comedy emerged while on 22 July 1996. and the Daily Show for an award for Best Stewart was at high school, where he was Described as a ‘fake news show’, it used Political Satire. This show has consistently once voted the student with the best clips from the day’s headline stories as combined satirical humour with trenchant sense of humour, and he chose to make the basis of its satirical analysis of the coverage of such topical developments as this his career in 1986. His first comedy news. Among the guests to have the 2008 Presidential election campaigns gig at the Bitter End in Greenwich Village appeared on the show since Stewart took and the emerging financial crisis. Segments ended after two minutes with him being it over in 1998 have been two former of the Show from "Indecision 2000" to Mess jeered off , but he soon presidents, and , O’Potamia have framed important policy managed to secure a regular spot at the as well as candidates Hillary Clinton, John issues in a significant way. American and Comedy Cellar, where he performed every McCain and Barack Obama, and international politicians (including Barack night in the graveyard shift. celebrities such as Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks Obama while running for President) have and George Clooney. The show has racked been queuing up to appear on the show. No In 1989 he broke into television, up a total of 11 Emmy awards out of a wonder asked ‘Is Jon presenting Short Attention Span Theatre, a total of 22 nominations, winning the Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America?’ clip show running on the Comedy Central award for ‘outstanding writing for a cable channel. The following year MTV variety, music or comedy program’ on no hired him to front You Wrote It, You Watch fewer than five occasions. It, a sketch show where comedians acted out outrageous real-life experiences sent in by viewers. The show was cancelled after its first season. As its erstwhile host later put it, ‘You wrote it, you just didn’t watch it.’

In 1994 Stewart returned to MTV to present the eponymous Jon Stewart Show. The station’s first , it was a hit with audiences. However when Paramount moved in to syndicate the

Political Studies Association Award Winners 2009

Political Studies Association Awards 2009 Political Journalist of the Year ROBERT PESTON

Educated at Highgate Wood crisis. He won the Royal Television Comprehensive, in Crouch End, and Balliol Society’s 2007 Scoop of the Year award College, Oxford, where he took PPE, for the Northern Rock story and also the Robert Peston was destined for a career Wincott Award for Business News/Current in the city – until he succumbed to Affairs Programme of the Year. He was boredom at the firm Williams de Broe, Journalist of the Year in the Business the stockbrokers who gave him his first Journalism of the Year Awards for 2007/8. job, and moved into journalism via a stint at the Investors Chronicle. He wrote for In February 2008 he published a second The Independent, the short-lived Sunday bestselling book, Who Runs Britain?, an Correspondent and the Independent on account of relations between the Labour THE JUDGES SAY Sunday before settling down at the Government and the City. Also in 2008, Robert Peston was the unanimous choice of , where he remained for he won the ’s the jury for Political Journalist of the Year. ten years. He worked as political editor, awards for Journalist of the Year, The panel pointed to the outstanding financial editor and head of Specialist Journalist of the Year and Scoop significance of his contribution to our investigations, and won the 1993 What of the Year, the London Press Club’s understanding of the current financial crisis. the Papers Say award for investigative Business Journalist of the Year Award, the As BBC Business Editor he was to begin with journalism. Broadcasting Press Guild’s Award for a lone voice predicting the coming Performer of the Year in a non-acting role economic turbulence. His groundbreaking He was appointed editorial director of and the Wincott Foundation’s awards for journalism led on the Northern Rock story Quest in 2000 and in the spring of 2002 Broadcaster of the Year and Online and again when HBOS got into trouble. As a moved to the Sunday Telegraph as city Journalist of the Year. result of the crisis he has become a editor, responsible for the Business and household name and the key authority on Money sections. While at the Sunday unfolding economic developments. Telegraph he published Brown’s Britain, a critically-acclaimed account of the rivalry between and , and won the Harold Wincott award for financial journalism.

In 2005 he replaced Jeff Randall as the BBC’s business editor and immediately gained a reputation for incisive reporting. The onset of the financial crisis in 2007 was to raise his profile to a dramatic degree. In September he broke the story that Northern Rock was seeking emergency financial help from the . In the months that followed, the public, the rest of the media, and the city hung on Peston’s words as he broke a series of stories about the developing

Political Studies Association Awards 2009 Political Publication of the Year THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

The Telegraph’s exposure in May of an audit of MPs’ expenses conducted by questionable expenses claims by MPs has Sir Thomas Legg resulted in demands that sent shock waves reverberating significant sums of money should be paid throughout Westminster and the rest of back. the political system. Moats and duck houses have become the new currency in The Telegraph investigation has shaken political debate and it is still hard to British political life to its foundations and assess how far the scandal uncovered by has led to calls for a wholesale overhaul the Telegraph’s investigative team will of the political system, including alter the way parliament operates and imposing term limits on MPs and the way MPs are seen by the electorate changing the electoral system to tackle and perhaps even the constitution itself. public anger over perceptions that many THE JUDGES SAY MPs are sitting on a goldmine in safe The Daily Telegraph was the jury’s The initial three-week series of front page parliamentary seats. With its skilful and unanimous choice for Political Publication exposés was engineered by a small team prolonged exposure of politicians’ worst of the Year, because of its key role in of working in a ‘bunker’ habits the Daily Telegraph has set in exposing details of MPs’ expenses. Through separated from the paper’s main news motion a debate over the future of its investigation and carefully timed room for reasons of security. They parliament that is unlikely to go away for revelations the paper helped to orchestrate carefully examined the expenses claims of a very long time. the political story of the year, drawing every single MP, beginning at the top, attention to the systematic abuse taxpayer- with the cabinet and ; funded expenses system by a significant working round the clock to ensure that number of MPs. no detail was missed. It was a painstaking process involving careful detective work to uncover secrets such as the practice of ‘flipping’, where MPs switched the designation of primary and secondary residences in order to obtain a financial advantage, or payments made at public expense on mortgages that did not exist.

Gordon Brown described the furore over expenses as ‘the biggest parliamentary scandal for two centuries’. It led directly to the resignation of the Speaker, Michael Martin, the first such departure from the office for three centuries. Politicians from all three major parties have unanimously condemned the practices that they themselves and their colleagues engaged in. The story has been given a new lease of life following the summer recess after

Political Studies Association Award Winners 2009

Political Studies Association Awards 2009 Political Programme of the Year

In common with other news media, the 2000, covering events such as the sleaze BBC’s Newsnight has seen a marked allegations directed at the Major upturn in viewing figures, first as a result Government and the rise of Tony Blair’s of the crisis in financial markets and then New Labour. From 2000 to 2007 Martha of the scandal over MPs’ expenses. As Kearney took on the role. Among her always, viewers have turned to Newsnight notable reports was the filming of the for a considered, in-depth analysis of moment in 2004 when then Foreign these and other political issues. Secretary Jack Straw shook hands with Robert Mugabe at the . First broadcast in 1980, Newsnight was anchored in its early years by the ‘holy In February 2007 Kearney passed the THE JUDGES SAY trinity’ of John Tusa, Donald McCormick baton to veteran Newsnight reporter BBC Newsnight was the jury’s unanimous and Peter Snow. It quickly gained a , whose brilliant record as an choice for Political Programme of the Year. reputation as a serious news programme investigative reporter, coupled with a The panel commended BBC Newsnight for that could on occasion be highly highly individual style, are ideally suited the consistently high quality of its reporting unpredictable: quirky cultural items were to a news program of Newsnight’s depth and the range of its stories . The content was mingled with an objective but and calibre. always interesting, presentation was idiosyncratic coverage of the big news imaginative and topics were treated in stories of the day, and with political depth. interviews that went beyond the normal range of questioning. ’s 1997 grilling of the then home secretary Michael Howard over his role in the resignation of prisons boss Derek Lewis, in which Paxman asked Howard the same question 12 times without eliciting a response that satisfied him, was an iconic moment.

In addition to McCormick, Tusa, Snow and Paxman, a string of other incisive journalists have anchored the show, including Charles Wheeler, Olivia O’Leary, , , and . The standard of journalism has remained consistently high, despite the tightness of the show’s budget. Political coverage is Newsnight’s main strength, and its reputation has been boosted by a succession of outstanding political editors. Mark Mardell occupied the post for eight years from 1992 to

Political Studies Association Awards 2009 W J M Mackenzie Prize 2008 PROFESSOR MATTHEW FLINDERS

DELEGATED GOVERNANCE AND THE BRITISH STATE: WALKING WITHOUT ORDER

Matthew Flinders was born in London in Government). The second area of research 1972. He was educated at St Catherine’s is examining the politics of public and then St Joseph’s, and from 1991 to expectations in the context of political 1994 read Modern European Studies at disaffection and disengagement and Loughborough University. He completed a broader debates about the future of the PhD in governance, public policy and state. legislative studies at the University of between 1995 and 1999. After He has authored and co-authored a holding a series of research positions he number of books, including The Politics of was appointed to a lectureship at the Accountability in the Modern State (2001) THE JUDGES SAY University of Sheffield in 2000, a senior and he is co-editor of The Oxford This is a weighty and erudite work of lectureship from 2003 to 2005, and a Handbook of British Politics. His latest considerable scholarship on a topical readership from 2005 to 2009. He was book – Democratic Drift – is published by subject of relevance to all students of appointed Professor of Parliamentary Oxford University Press later this year. He politics, not just those focused on the Government & Governance on 1 January has published papers in a number of areas analysis of British Politics and Governance. It 2009. including multi-level governance, challenges many conventional quangos, and parliamentary and understandings of local government and the In 2002 he received the Political Studies constitutional reform. Professor Flinders is politics of delegation, developing a fresh Association’s Harrison Prize, awarded married with four children. He plays and original theory of delegated annually for the best paper published in rugby for Sheffield Tigers Rugby Union governance. The scholarship is impressive, that year’s volume of Political Studies. In Football Club and is an active member of and the argument developed is bold, 2004 he became the first recipient of the Dark Peak Fell Runners. original and compelling. The author draws Richard Rose Prize, awarded to a younger on a very wide range of relevant sources, scholar who has made a distinctive including research conducted as a Whitehall contribution through published work to Fellow within the Cabinet Office. The great the study of politics. During 2005 and strength of the book, however, is that 2006 he held both a Leverhulme Research although it is richly empirical in focus it is Fellowship (focusing on depoliticisation) also theoretically sophisticated. It is a work and a Visiting Academic Fellowship within of theoretically informed empirical the Cabinet Office (focusing on delegated research, in the very best tradition of British governance). The Fellowship within the political science. It deserves to become a Cabinet Office partially provided him core reference point in the study of with the material to write Delegated contemporary governance and should be Governance and the British State: Walking required reading for students and without Order (OUP: 2008) book, the practitioners of politics alike. winner of the 2008 Mackenzie Prize.

Professor Colin Hay (Chair) Professor Flinders’ current research University of Sheffield focuses on two key themes. The first is Dr Tony Burns the issue of party patronage and the University of Nottingham changing powers of elected politicians Professor John Gaffney vis-à-vis the state (funded by the ESRC Aston University and working closely with the Institute for

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