Policy-Making and British Politics

2013 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
British Politics

British Politics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter John
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
British Politics ◽  
Political Behaviour ◽  
Media Agenda ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Politics And Law ◽  
Institutional Foundations

British Politics provides an introduction to British politics with an emphasis on political science to analyse the fundamental features of British politics, and the key changes post-Brexit. Part A looks at constitutional and institutional foundations of the subject. Chapters in this part look at leadership and debating politics and law creation. The second part is about political behaviour and citizenship. Here chapters consider elections, the media, agenda setting, and political turbulence. The final part is about policy-making and delegation. The chapters in this part examine interest groups, advocacy, policy-making, governing through bureaucracy and from below, delegating upwards, and British democracy now.

Policy-Making and British Politics

2013 ◽  
pp. 23-40
Author(s):  
Peter John ◽  
Anthony Bertelli ◽  
Will Jennings ◽  
Shaun Bevan
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
British Politics

Reasserting the Centre: The Brexit Doctrine and the Imperative Mandate in British Politics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph W Ward
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
The Political ◽  
British Politics ◽  
Political Tradition ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Eu Referendum ◽  
Government Management ◽  
The Government

Abstract Despite the outpouring of scholarship on the motivations behind the 2016 EU referendum result and the preliminary impact of Brexit on British politics, comparatively little time has been spent analysing the government(s) entrusted with implementation. This article aims to address this gap in the literature, examining government management of the Brexit process as a case study through which to illustrate the continued relevance of the British Political Tradition in British politics. It argues that through Brexit implementation, the May government initiated a process of centralisation of both policy-making influence and administrative resources within Whitehall. This process was shielded externally by appeals to the referendum result as an imperative mandate parliament was obliged to implement. Although the political landscape of May’s premiership was characterised by flux, these internal shifts towards centralisation in the executive are proposed to have had a more sustained impact through the reassertion of aspects of Britain’s ‘power-hoarding’ constitutional settlement.

scholarly journals World-beating? Testing Britain's Covid response and tracing the explanation

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Calum Paton
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
British Politics ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Public ◽  
Toxic Approach ◽  
Poor Outcomes ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Uk

Abstract The UK, and England in particular, has suffered egregiously poor outcomes in managing the Covid-19 pandemic. This short perspective points to the explanation in terms of both current British politics and the public health policy inheritance. Boris Johnson's Premiership was born in an opportunistic assertion of British exceptionalism, and Johnson's initial, fate-tempting reaction to the novel Coronavirus set the UK on the wrong path. Furthermore, the gradual erosion of professionalism in (especially health) policy-making over almost four decades, and the hollowing-out of the health protection infrastructure, both facilitated and accentuated a toxic approach to managing Covid-19.

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