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{"title":"Reputations and Research Quality in British Political Science: The Importance of Journal and Publisher Rankings in the 2008 RAE","authors":"Nicholas Allen,&nbsp;Oliver Heath","doi":"10.1111/1467-856X.12006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-856X.12006","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p><i>The article seeks to make a contribution in the following areas:</i></p><ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Departments that submitted a large proportion of books published with a top university press tended to do much better in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), especially in respect of their 4* rating.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Departments that submitted large numbers of top-10 journal articles as a proportion of their outputs tended to get higher 4* ratings than departments that submitted only a few.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Departments that had a member of staff on the RAE sub-panel saw their 4* rating jump considerably, all other things being equal, suggesting inadequate communication by the sub-panel of its working methods and criteria.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>The RAE sub-panel's judgements about research quality broadly reflected the judgements of the profession.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 <p>This article analyses the results of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). It demonstrates that the reputations of political science journals and scholarly publishers can explain the performance of institutions submitted to the RAE‘s Politics and International Studies sub-panel, and that there were also clear relationships between types of output and research quality. Outputs in top journals and with top presses were strongly associated with 4* quality and research excellence. Moreover, press and journal reputations appeared to have a greater impact than the type of publication. These findings should encourage policy makers to consider more cost-effective and efficient ways of evaluating research.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51479,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Politics & International Relations","volume":"15 1","pages":"147-162"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2012-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1467-856X.12006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91859987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cameron and Liberal Conservatism: Attitudes within the Parliamentary Conservative Party and Conservative Ministers","authors":"Timothy Heppell","doi":"10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00546.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00546.x","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article:</p>\u0000 <p>\u0000 </p><ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Contributes to the development of academic research on the internal dynamics of the Conservative Party under the leadership of David Cameron.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Contributes to the development of academic research on the processes of ministerial selection within British Government.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Contributes to the development of academic research on cohort effects within parties, and the analysis of comparisons and differences between different parliamentary cohorts.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Contributes to the development of academic research on the constraints upon Prime Ministerial power when in coalition.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 <p>This article identifies the ideological composition of the parliamentary Conservative party (PCP) in order to determine the location and numeric strength of the critics of Cameron. By constructing a data set of attitudes across two ideological divides—the social, sexual and morality divide and the European divide—the article identifies the following. First, despite Cameron's social liberal emphasis both the PCP and his ministerial team is predominantly Thatcherite—i.e. socially conservative. Second, despite numerically having a Eurosceptic PCP and ministerial team, with Europhilia now an inconsequential rump, Cameron faces a minority ‘hard’ Eurosceptic faction of rebels who oppose his ‘soft’ Euroscepticism. Third, the influx of new parliamentarians elected in 2010 may increase social liberal strength, but they are overwhelmingly Eurosceptic, with a significant tranche of hard Eurosceptics amongst them. Finally, through a process of ideological mapping of these two ideological divides the research identifies a core of 50 socially conservative <i>and</i> hard Eurosceptics who are the critics of Cameron.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51479,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Politics & International Relations","volume":"15 3","pages":"340-361"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2012-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00546.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91564483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Puzzling Agency in Centre-local Relations: Regulatory Governance and Accounts of Change under New Labour","authors":"Steven Griggs,&nbsp;Helen Sullivan","doi":"10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00544.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00544.x","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Research Highlights and Abstract</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <div>The article seeks to make a contribution in the following areas:\u0000 <ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>It seeks to establish a new research agenda in centre-local relations, which builds on explanations of local practice and the political and affective dimensions of the work of officers and politicians. In so doing, it suggests that we should further dissolve the often over-determined boundaries between the centre and the local.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>In recasting centre-local relations, it draws particular attention to the capacity of local agency and the role of regulatory intermediaries; it explores such agency through an original case study of the take-up and use of the Power of Well Being.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>It offers a critical assessment of existing accounts of regulatory governance under New Labour.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The UK Coalition's espoused commitment to Localism has re-ignited debates about the state and nature of centre-local relations in England. This article explores this contested space through the practice of regulatory governance under the New Labour government. It identifies two dominant interpretations of centre-local relations under New Labour, which it characterises as state-centric dirigisme and disciplined pluralism. This analysis draws attention to the capacity of local agency to shape the potential and limitations of regulatory governance. This capacity is explored empirically through an examination of the take-up and use of the Local Government Well Being Power introduced in 2000. The article suggests that centre-local relations should be recast to examine critically local practices and the political and affective dimensions of what local officers and politicians actually ‘do’ and it sets out an agenda for future research.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51479,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Politics & International Relations","volume":"16 3","pages":"495-514"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00544.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91829924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"US Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary","authors":"Isaac Kamola","doi":"10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00540.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00540.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 </p><p>I argue that ‘globalization’ is not simply a concept describing the world but rather an imaginary; a mental practice which renders multiple, often competing, social relationships into a meaningful, coherent whole. While some scholars have made similar arguments, none has laid out a theoretically rigorous understanding of the global imaginary. I first draw upon the work of Charles Taylor and Manfred Steger to better understand globalization as an imaginary, but find their work unable to explain how the global imaginary is produced. To ameliorate this deficiency, I turn to the work of Louis Althusser to theorize globalization as socially produced within particular material apparatuses that organize daily practices. I conclude by applying this theory to examine how the apparatus of the US university has transformed from an institution designed to produce a national imaginary to one producing the global imaginary.</p>","PeriodicalId":51479,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Politics & International Relations","volume":"16 3","pages":"515-533"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2012-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00540.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91869079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Big Society as Big Government: Cameron's Governmentality Agenda","authors":"Dan Bulley,&nbsp;Bal Sokhi-Bulley","doi":"10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00547.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00547.x","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The article seeks to make a contribution in the following areas:\u0000 </p><ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Demonstrate that the ‘Big Society’ agenda, while based on a dichotomy with ‘Big Government’, in fact produces a diffusion of bigger, better government throughout British society.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Illustrate that despite claims of the Big Society being a matter of empowerment, its diverse tactics and techniques of what Foucault calls ‘governmentality’, or the ‘conduct of conduct’, shows the opposite: management and control.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Outline the logic of the Big Society and how it has played out in two important policies of the Coalition Government: National Citizen Service and Community Resilience.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Suggest that while the ‘Big Society’ targets widespread behavioural change, the ultimate aim is to produce a population of efficient, responsible, productive and self-governing individuals and communities.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 <p>Cameron's flagship policy of the ‘Big Society’ rests on a society/government dichotomy, diagnosing a ‘broken society’ caused by ‘big government’ having assumed the role communities once played. The remedy is greater social responsibility and the ‘Big Society’. This article argues that the dichotomy is deceptive. We aim to show that the Big Society is big government, as it employs techniques for managing the conduct of individuals and communities such that the mentality of government, far from being removed or reduced, is bettered and made more efficient. To illustrate this, we explore two major initiatives: the National Citizen Service and the Community Resilience programme. These projects demonstrate how practices of informing and guiding the conduct of individuals both produce agents and normalise certain values, resulting in the population being better known and controlled. Thus, far from lessening government and empowering people, the Big Society extends governmentality throughout the social body.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51479,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Politics & International Relations","volume":"16 3","pages":"452-470"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2012-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00547.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91850489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Policy Matters—An Editorial Note","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00548.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00548.x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51479,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Politics & International Relations","volume":"14 4","pages":"671"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2012-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00548.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91830144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Party Politics of Englishness","authors":"Andrew Mycock,&nbsp;Richard Hayton","doi":"10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00543.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00543.x","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>\u0000 </p><ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>provides one of the first assessments of how British multi-national and English political parties have responded to existing and emergent identity tensions in England whilst continuing to defend the concept of the post-devolution British union-state.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>extends debates about multi-level party political systems in multi-national states which have typically focused on Scotland, Wales and, to a lesser extent, Northern Ireland.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>considers the potential that debates about English national identity could morph into a party politics of Englishness.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>assesses the potential for nascent English nationalism to encourage divergent party political responses to questions of English governance, citizenship and nation identity.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 <p>This article assesses how the main British multi-national parties, whilst retaining an attachment of one form or another to the concept of the Union-state, have responded to existing and emergent identity tensions. Through examination of Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, with brief discussion of the BNP, UKIP and the English Democrats, it will consider the impact of devolution and the threat of separatist nationalism on party approaches and policy choices concerning English identity construction and governance. It will also explore the extent to which devolution has compromised the ability of UK politicians to ‘speak of Britain’ (they rarely use the term UK) <i>and</i> the four composite nations. By comparing and contrasting the narratives articulated by parties at different levels of governance it will ask whether a nascent ‘party politics of Englishness’ has emerged which can accommodate these challenges.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51479,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Politics & International Relations","volume":"16 2","pages":"251-272"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2012-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00543.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91800989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Embracing Humanitarian Intervention: Atlanticism and the UK Interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo","authors":"David McCourt","doi":"10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00532.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00532.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article employs the interpretive approach to show that Britain's embrace of humanitarian intervention in Kosovo in 1999 was less a result of the election of New Labour or the psychology of Tony Blair, as conventional wisdom suggests, and more a consequence of a change in belief among policy-makers in the UK and beyond regarding the use of force for humanitarian ends, which originated prior to 1997 in American intervention in Bosnia in the summer of 1995. The effects of the moralism of the new government and its leader must therefore be viewed within a wider transatlantic context and against the background of the continued importance of the ‘Atlanticist’ tradition in UK foreign policy, with important implications for the study of UK foreign policy beyond the Balkans.</p>","PeriodicalId":51479,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Politics & International Relations","volume":"15 2","pages":"246-262"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2012-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00532.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91850929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dilemmas of Discourse: Legitimising Britain's War on Terror","authors":"Steven Kettell","doi":"10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00531.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00531.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The sphere of foreign policy provides a hitherto unexplored field for studying the applicability of interpretivist concepts and concerns. Here, a particularly useful topic of analysis is that of discursive strategies; namely, the way in which government figures seek to legitimise and justify their decisions and behaviour. Operating at the intersection between beliefs, traditions and dilemmas, the examination of foreign policy discourse offers key insights into a variety of important issues, including political communication and media management. This article considers these themes by examining the changing form of New Labour's discursive strategy on Britain's role in the war on terror during the period of Tony Blair's premiership from 2001 to mid-2007. Charting the various shifts to have taken place in this discursive landscape, the article analyses the way in which these changes were driven by dilemmas resulting from tensions between practical developments and the discursive claims made about them. This shows how various rationalities within the sphere of British politics were operationalised and sustained, and how numerous ‘dilemmas of discourse’ were addressed.</p>","PeriodicalId":51479,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Politics & International Relations","volume":"15 2","pages":"263-279"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2012-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00531.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91850934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Renewed Social Democracy for an ‘Age of Internationalism’: An Interpretivist Account of New Labour's Foreign Policy","authors":"Judi Atkins","doi":"10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00536.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00536.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article employs an interpretive approach to explore New Labour's use of social scientific theories in developing its foreign policy. After situating New Labour in the broad tradition of social democracy, it outlines the beliefs that most social democrats shared about the values of internationalism, international community and moral leadership. Taking these concepts in turn, the article then considers how New Labour modified their content in response to issues raised by ‘New Times’. In so doing, it problematizes New Labour's responses by revealing that they drew on ideas taken from complex interdependence theory, communitarianism and democratic peace theory respectively. The article then examines how these theories, in conjunction with the reformulation of its foreign policy, influenced New Labour's transformation of the three values, before concluding with a brief examination of the dilemmas arising from this process.</p>","PeriodicalId":51479,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Politics & International Relations","volume":"15 2","pages":"175-191"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2012-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00536.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91852811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}