Heppell, T orcid.org/0000-0001-9851-6993 and Crines, A (2016) Conservative Ministers in the Coalition Government of 2010-15: Evidence of Bias in the Ministerial Selections of David Cameron? Journal of Legislative Studies, 22 (3). pp. 385-403. ISSN 1357-2334
Abstract
The article uses a dataset of the 2010-15 Parliamentary Conservative Party (PCP) to test a series of hypotheses in order to determine whether those selected for ministerial office during the coalition era were representative of the PCP as a whole. Our findings show no significant associations or bias by Cameron in terms of age, schooling, regional base, morality, voting for Cameron in the Conservative Party leadership election and most significantly gender. Significant associations or bias were evident in terms of Cameron’s patronage with regard to University education and electoral marginality. Our findings demonstrate that any critique of current Conservative ministers based on their supposed elitism stem from the institutional and structural biases within the Conservative Party at candidate selection level, and cannot be attributed to bias on behalf of Cameron.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2016, Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Legislative Studies on 14 July 2016, available online: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2016.1202647 |
Keywords: | Cameron coalition, Conservative Party, government ministers, ministerial backgrounds |
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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 Feb 2017 14:44 |
Last Modified: | 14 Jan 2018 01:38 |
Published Version: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2016.1202647 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13572334.2016.1202647 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:99728 |