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The OBR and the unintended economic consequences of Mr Osborne
The creation of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) was heralded as a major change in UK economic governance, purporting to offer objective...
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Government decision-making and the site of power in New Labour’s ‘levelling up’: reconsidering economic regionalism
Debates about England’s geographic inequalities and the extent to which the problem is intertwined with the ‘Westminster system’ of government are...
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A league made in the economy’s image: destabilised stability and the English Premier League’s Minsky moment
The English Premier League (EPL) has drawn the attention of scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds in recent years, yet its underlying...
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British politics symposium on Ben Clift (2022) the OBR and the politics of technocratic economic governance (Oxford University Press)
This contribution to the symposium situates Clift’s (The office of budget responsibility and the politics of technocratic economic governance, Oxford...
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How to be an expert in confusing times: lessons from the Office of Budget Responsibility
In an era defined by major political and economic shocks and ruptures, ranging from the 2008 global financial crisis through Brexit and the COVID...
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The OBR and the fragilities, complexities and promise of technocratic economic governance
This contribution explores how technocratic economic governance rests on underlying principles of political economy—normatively informed judgements...
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The OBR and the neo-liberal paradox
One of the issues raised by Ben Clift’s book on the OBR is the paradox in UK neo-liberal thinking since Brexit. This is created by the attempt to...
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Position, salience and rhetoric: the strategic tools employed by the main Scottish political parties in the post-devolution era
This article presents an original account of the strategic options available to political parties in the form of the position, salience and rhetoric...
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‘Mr Rules’: Keir Starmer and the juridification of politics
Keir Starmer’s moniker of ‘Mr Rules’ captures his deep investment in a rules-based form of politics that seeks to uphold established standards of...
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The Downing Street Chief-of-Staff: a case study in political management
The role of Downing Street Chief-of-Staff has been neglected by examinations of British Politics, prime ministers, and political leadership and...
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Loving a good fight: personality traits and reactions to conflict in TV debates
This article seeks to contribute to our understanding of media influence on political behaviour by investigating the ways in which people with...
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Divisions within the British Parliamentary Labour Party under Keir Starmer: Results of a Cluster Analysis
This paper offers a methodologically innovative two-stage approach for studying divisions amongst parliamentary representatives. Using the...
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The changing class and educational composition of the UK political elite since 1945: implications for representation
Debates over the changing nature of the UK political elite have focused on questions of representation and the extent of class convergence between...
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A policy framework of convenience: on Covid-19 and the strategic use of resilience in the UK
Over the last decade or so, resilience has allegedly become one of the leading policy paradigms. However, it is astonishing how little reference the...
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‘A Grand Strategic Error’: the British military elite’s role in the invasion of Iraq
President George W. Bush required only symbolic British participation in the invasion of Iraq, so why did the Labour government deploy their maximum...
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The media, terrorism, and censorship in the UK: conflicting imagined audiences in British parliamentary debates in 1988 and 2018
Over the last three decades, there has been a significant growth in media control policies in the UK. Nonetheless, academic literature has so far...
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What kind of discipline are we? A network analysis of British Politics
Research on British politics has traditionally been too reliant on a single model for understanding its field of inquiry—initially the Westminster...
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‘The first, but not the last’: women’s descriptive and substantive representation in the 2021 Scottish Parliament election
The 2021 Scottish Parliament election delivered the most diverse range of MSPs in Holyrood’s history, including a record number of women. We situate...
