Heppell, T orcid.org/0000-0001-9851-6993 (2023) Party centralisation, internal cohesion and leadership security: How UK prime ministers compare to Japanese prime ministers. Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, 8 (1). 52 -67. ISSN 2057-8911
Abstract
This article considers UK prime ministers as leaders of their political parties. It evaluates the extent to which the three trends identified by Uchiyama in this issue, in relation to Japanese prime ministers, are replicated in the case of UK prime ministers. First, to what extent is the Japanese trend towards increasing party centralisation replicated within the UK Labour and Conservative parties? Second, to what extent is the Japanese trend of reduced factional influence and lower rebellion rates replicated in the case of the UK Labour and Conservative parties? Finally, is the association between leadership personalisation and party leadership security – i.e. how an approval rating of below 30 per cent will act as a trigger for the removal of an incumbent Japanese prime minister – replicated in the case of the UK Labour and Conservative parties?
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | party centralisation; party factionalism; party leadership; party leadership elections; prime ministerial leadership |
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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 Jul 2022 13:20 |
Last Modified: | 07 Nov 2024 16:14 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/20578911221106811 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:188804 |