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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"JN101 Great Britain"”.
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Political behaviour in the United Kingdom: An examination of Members of Parliament and Voters
This thesis builds on quantitative British politics scholarship with four papers unified by a strong emphasis on positivist theory, research design and cutting edge statistical methodology. I examine political behaviour among representatives in the UK's House of Commons and voting behaviour in the …
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Citizen or subject? Freedom of information and the informed citizen in a democracy
Information is the essence of democracy and the lynchpin of power-ownership. Possession and control of information allows us to demarcate who controls or influences the political system. Freedom of Information (FOI), rooted in Enlightenment values, contains within it a key principle of democracy …
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Reconciling social justice with economic competitveness: the coherence of New Labour's discourse on education
According to key figures within New Labour, the advent of the knowledge-based economy has ended the “sterile” battle between social justice and economic competitiveness; this now means that it is only through the provision of opportunities for all, achieved through high quality education, that the …
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Irish issues and Unionist M.P.'s 1832-1846
Abstract available: p.i.
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Passwords to power: a public rationale for expert influence on central government policy-making: British scientists and economists. c.1900-c.1925
… I argue that such a study of rhetoric is of great importance as a prerequisite for a correct understanding of the relations between experts and government in this period. Rhetoric must be recognised for what it is, a changing partisan account of the importance of science and scientific method.
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The Conservative Party and Thatcherism, 1970-1979: A grass-roots perspective
This thesis argues that ‘Thatcherism’ was consistent with the values, prejudices, and interests of the Conservative party. The threat of socialism was pervasive and underpinned by the party’s socio-economic base. The economic status of the middle class, under threat from inflation, pay controls, …
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Probation, Politics, Policy and Practice: From New Labour to the Coalition government
The outputs presented in part submission of a PhD by publication represent the body of my published work over the past ten years. They cover policy, practice and legislative developments during both the New Labour and Coalition Governments that have ultimately led to the demise of the Probation …
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Politics of Electoral Reform: The Case of the United Kingdom’s 2011 Referendum on the Alternative Vote
This thesis focuses on the politics of electoral reform. It examines dynamics operating at both the public and political elite levels. The first paper looks at the place of electoral reform in British politics, in particular the place of the Alternative Vote (AV), and demonstrates a positive …
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Young Conservatives, Young Socialists and the great youth abstention : youth participation and non-participation in political parties
This thesis is an investigation into participation and non-participation by young people in British political parties. Falling turnout in British elections has lead to concern about the level of popular participation in the political system, especially amongst the young. Those between 18 and 25 are …
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Political ideas and policy in the Labour Party, 1983-1992
This thesis examines the political ideas of the Labour Party between 1983 and 1992. It adopts two detailed case studies: Labour’s economic policy and Labour’s social policy. Part I provides an historical context of Labour’s political ideas and Part II analyses the political ideas content of …
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The battle of the stages : the conflict between the theatre and the institutions of government and religion in England 1660-1890
Between 1660 and 1880 a number of Royal Patents were granted and Acts of ParI iament passed whose purpose and effect, it has generally been acknowledged, was to restrict the spread and availability of English theatre, in particular that within the two cities of the metropolis, and to limit its …
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Political traditions and Scottish devolution
This thesis seeks to develop a conception of the political traditions operating in the UK and then apply it to the development of Scottish Devolution. I argue that the concept of tradition has been under-valued and theorized in social science and that the notion of political traditions has …
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Working the 'third way': New Labour, employment relations and Scottish devolution
Labour’s election victory in 1997 was heralded as a new era, the dawn of a Third Way, a novel attempt to chart a unique political course overcoming the perceived limitations of both New Right and Old Labour. In this thesis, I explore that era of New Labour generally and, in particular, the impact …
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The Labour Party's commonwealth : an analysis of discourses on political community in the 1930s
This dissertation develops a method for the analysis of political discourse from the work of Foucault which it uses to construct the Labour Party in the 1930s, in a specific relation to the issues of antisemitism and Indian independence. These issues are chosen because they are some of the issues …
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Why public policy ideas catch on: empty signifiers and flourishing neighbourhoods
Asking the question ‘why do ideas catch on in public policy’ reveals the inadequacy of ideational accounts to compete with the predominance of mainstream models of policy analysis. This thesis reasserts ideational accounts through the application of the political discourse theory of Laclau and …
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Political culture and the labour movement: a comparison between Poplar and West Ham, 1889-1914
… for women' s suffrage and the history of the Great Unrest, exemplify the main argument of this thesis. Thus by assessing economic factors, employment patterns and trade unionism, problems with the franchise and elector registration, the quality of local party organisation and the different …
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The rôle of government in the decline of the British shipbuilding industry, 1945 - 1980
This thesis studies the interrelationship between government and the shipbuilding industry in the United Kingdom during the so-called ‘Golden Age’ of economic growth between 1945 and 1973. It argues that actions of government in the 1960s and 70s aimed at arresting the decline of shipbuilding as an …
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The Battle of Economic Ideas: A Critical Analysis of Financial Crisis Management Discourse in the UK, 2007-8
… Although these battles were often fought with great intensity and urgency, there was an internal complexity to the dynamic of these battles that often gets glossed over in accounts of this period. I suggest that ‘reactivating’ this period in detail and with nuance is helpful in showing not only …
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