Evaluating British prime ministerial performance: David Cameron’s premiership in political time
| Autor: | Kevin Theakston, Nick Randall, Christopher Byrne |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology Management Monitoring Policy and Law Public administration Structure and agency Prime (order theory) 0506 political science Term (time) Prime minister Politics Critical reading Law Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration Historical institutionalism Sociology |
| Zdroj: | The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 19:202-220 |
| ISSN: | 1467-856X 1369-1481 |
| Popis: | This article contributes to the developing literature on prime ministerial performance in the United Kingdom by applying a critical reading of Stephen Skowronek’s account of leadership in ‘political time’ to evaluate David Cameron’s premiership. This, we propose, better understands the inter-relationship of structure and agency in prime ministerial performance than existing frameworks, particularly those based on Greenstein’s and Bulpitt’s approaches. We identify Cameron as a disjunctive prime minister, but find it necessary significantly to develop the model of disjunctive leadership beyond that offered by Skowronek. We identify the warrants to authority, strategies and dilemmas associated with disjunctive leadership in the United Kingdom. We argue that Cameron was relatively skilful in meeting many of the challenges confronting an affiliated leader of a vulnerable regime. However, his second term exposed deep fractures in the regime, which proved beyond Cameron’s skills as a disjunctive leader. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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