Byrne, C, Randall, N and Theakston, K orcid.org/0000-0002-9939-7516 (2017) Evaluating British prime ministerial performance: David Cameron’s premiership in political time. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 19 (1). pp. 202-220. ISSN 1369-1481
Abstract
This article contributes to the developing literature on prime ministerial performance in the UK 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 to significantly 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 UK. 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.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2016. Published by SAGE Publications. This is an author produced version of a paper published in British Journal of Politics and International Relations. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | David Cameron; historical institutionalism; leadership performance; Prime minister(s) |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Dec 2016 09:11 |
Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2017 10:19 |
Published Version: | http://doi.org/10.1177/1369148116685260 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1369148116685260 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:108994 |