Statecraft

Policies and Politics under Prime Minister Theresa May
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-32471-0
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 420 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 683 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership

This book examines the statecraft of former UK Prime Minister, Theresa May as a means of deconstructing her leadership of the United Kingdom. Alongside the inescapable issue of Brexit that dominated her Premiership, it takes a wider view of her record in government by looking at how and why she stood for the leadership of the Conservative Party; scrutinizes her approach to economic, social, and foreign policy; interrogates her attitudes towards Northern Ireland and the DUP; and her longstanding records on race relations, LGBT+ issues, and feminism, as well as more traditional concerns such as faith, constitution, and Britishness. This volume is the first of its kind to adopt such a systematic approach in its evaluation of May’s leadership.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roe-Crines, Andrew S.

Jeffery, David

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Führung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction:               May as Prime Minister – A Question of Failed Statecraft?                  

Andrew S. Roe-Crines and David Jeffery

Part One – Electoral Issues

Chapter 1:                    Winning a Mandate to Lead the Conservatives: The 2016 Leadership Election.

Timothy Heppell

Chapter 2:                    Wanting a Mandate to lead the Nation: The 2017 General Election.

John-Paul Salter

Chapter 3:                    Attempting to Secure a Sympathetic Press: May and the Media.

                                    Will Coles

Part Two – Policy Implementation

Chapter 4:                    Brexit Policy.                                                                          

Anthony Costello

Chapter 5:                    Foreign Policy.                                                           

Kate Barry and Peter Kerr

Chapter 6:                    Economic Policy.                   

Simon Lee

Chapter 7:                    Health and Social Care Policy – ‘Nothing Has Changed’.                       

                                    Danny Bowman

Chapter 8:                    Environmental Policy.                                                            

                                    Daniel Pitt

Chapter 9:                    Northern Irish Policy.                                                            

                                    Catherine McGlynn and Shaun McDaid

Chapter 10:                  Race Relations Policy.                                               

                                    Peter Woodcock  

Chapter 11:                  Mental Health Policy.                                                             

                                    Daniel Bowman

Part Three – Political Debates

Chapter 12:                  May’s Ideology.                                                                      

Peter Dorey

Chapter 13:                  Modernizing Conservatism.                                                    

Eunice Goes

Chapter 14:                 Leadership Style – May and Thatcher Compared.                               

Kevin Theakston

Chapter 15:                  Party Management.                                                                 

Antony Mullen

Chapter 16:                  Gender in the Parliamentary Conservative Party.                               

                                    Timothy Heppell, David Jeffery, Andrew S. Roe-Crines

Chapter 17:                  May’s Feminism.                                                                                                          Claire Annesley

Chapter 18:                  May’s Christianity.                                                                  

Andrew Barclay

Chapter 19:                  May and the Constitution.                                                      

Philip Norton

Chapter 20:                  May and Britishness.                                                               

                                    Harry Fletcher

 

Conclusion:                 Statecraft and Theresa May – An Assessment.            

David Jeffery and Andrew S. Roe-Crines

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew S. Roe-Crines is Senior lecturer in British Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Liverpool, UK, and the author of several academic journal articles on political rhetoric/oratory, alongside his most recent books Corbynism in Perspective: The Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn (2021) and (with P. Dorey & A. Denham) Choosing Party Leaders: Conservative and Labour Party Compared (2020). 

David Jeffery is Senior Lecturer in British Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Liverpool, UK, and is the co-editor (with S. Farrall and A. Mullen) of Thatcherism in the 21st Century: The Social and Cultural Legacy (Palgrave, 2020). He is the author of Whatever Happened to Tory Liverpool? (2023), as well as the author of several journal articles in leading academic journals.