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Disjunctive Prime Ministerial Leadership in British Politics: From Baldwin to Brexit

By Kevin Theakston , Christopher Byrne , Nick Randall

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Pivot
Year
2020
ISBN
9783030449100, 9783030449117
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-44911-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1543548 bytes)
Series
Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
VI, 145\147
Time added
2021-01-06 05:41:07
History; History of Britain and Ireland; Political

Description

This book illustrates the cyclical pattern in the kinds of dilemmas that confront political leaders and, in particular, disjunctive political leaders affiliated with vulnerable political regimes. The volume covers three major episodes in disjunction: the interwar crisis between 1923 and 1940, afflicting Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald and Neville Chamberlain; the collapse of Keynesian welfarism between 1970 and 1979, dealt with by Edward Heath, Harold Wilson and James Callaghan; and the ongoing crisis of neoliberalism beginning in 2008, affecting Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May. Based on this series of case studies of disjunctive prime ministers, the authors conclude that effective disjunctive leadership is premised on judicious use of the prime ministerial toolkit in terms of deciding whether, when and where to act, effective diagnostic and choice framing, and the ability to manage both crises and regimes.

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