Syllabus - סוגיות נבחרות בפוליטיקה בריטית בת זמננו (56849)

חומר חובה לקריאה:
COURSE GUIDE

1. Introduction

PART A: The New British Constitution

2. The Old Constitution

Bogdanor, V. 2009. The New British Constitution, Portland, OR: Hart, 3-52

3. The Human Rights Act, Devolution

Bogdanor, V. 2009. The New British Constitution, Portland, OR: Hart, 53-120

4. Hung Parliament, A Reformed House of Lord?

Bogdanor, V. 2009. The New British Constitution, Portland, OR: Hart, 121-172

5. The Referendum; The New Government of London; Towards a Written
Constitution?

Bogdanor, V. 2009. The New British Constitution, Portland, OR: Hart, 173-234

Russell, M. 2011. “Constitutional Politics”, In: Cowley, P., C. Hay and R. Heffernan (eds.) Developments in British Politics 9, Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 8-28.

6. Mid-Term Exam

PART B: Political Institutions and Processes

7. Issue Evolution and Party Manifestos

Stevens, D. 2013. “Issue Evolution in Britain: The Debate on European Union Integration, 1964-2010”, European Journal of Political Research 52: 536-557.

Allen, N. and K. Mirwaldt. 2010. “Democracy-Speak: Party Manifestos and Democratic Values in Britain, France and Germany”, West European Politics 33(4): 870-893.

John, P. and W. Jennings. 2010. “Punctuations and Turning Points in British Politics: The Policy Agenda on the Queen’s Speech, 1940-2005”, British Journal of Political Science 40: 561-586.

8. Dynamics of Electoral Choice

Sanders, D. et al. 2011. “Downs, Stokes and the Dynamics of Electoral Choice”, British Journal of Political Science 41: 287-314.

Dancygier, R. and E.N. Saunders. 2006. “A New Electorate? Comparing Preferences and Partisanship between Immigrants and Natives”, American Journal of Political Science 50(4): 962-981.

Denver, D. 2011. “Elections and Voting”, In: Cowley, P., C. Hay and R. Heffernan (eds.) Developments in British Politics 9, Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 70-90.

Whiteley, P. 2012. Political Participation in Britain: The Decline and Revival of Civic Culture, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, Introduction & Concluding chapters.

8. Left, Right and Center

Bartle, J. 2010. “The Moving Center: Preferences for Government Activity in Britain, 1950-2005”, British Journal of Political Science 41: 259-285.

Keman, H. 2010. “Third Ways and Social Democracy: The Right Way to Go?” British Journal of Political Science 41: 671-680.

Hakhverdian, A. 2010. “Political Representation and its Mechanisms: A Dynamic Left-Right Approach for the United Kingdom, 1976-2006”, British Journal of Political Science 40: 835-856.

Adam, J. and S. Merrill. 2006. 2006. “Why Small, Centrist Third Parties Motivate Policy Divergence by Major Parties”, American Political Science Review 100(3): 403-417.

9. The Conservative Party under David Cameron

Buckler, S. and D. Dolowitz. 2012. “Ideology Matters: Party Competition, Ideological Positioning and the Case of the Conservative Party under David Cameron”, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 14: 576-594.

Pautz, H. 2013. “The Think Tanks behind “Cameronism”, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 15: 362-377.

Heppell, T. 2013. “Cameron and Liberal Conservatism: Attitudes within the Parliamentary Conservative Party and Conservative Ministers”, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 15: 340-361.

10. Euro-scepticism

Lubbers, M. and P. Scheepers. 2005. “Political versus Instrumental Euro-scepticism”, European Union Politics 6(2): 223-242.

Lynch, P. and R. Whitaker. 2013. “Where There is Discord, Can They Bring Harmony? Managing Inter-party Dissent on European Integration in the Conservative Party”, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 15: 317-339.

Daddow, O. 2013. “Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and the Eurosceptic Tradition in Britain”, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 15: 210-227.

McElroy, G. and K. Benoit. 2010. “Party Policy and Group Affiliation in the European Parliament”, British Journal of Political Science 40: 377-398.

11. New Labor and After New Labor

Gamble, A. 2012. “Inside New Labor”, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 14: 492-502.

Finlayson, A. 2013. “From Blue to Green and Everything in Between: Ideational Change and Left Political Economy after New Labor”, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 15: 70-88.

Hay, C. 2013. “Treating the Symptoms Not the Condition: Crisis Definition, Deficit Reduction and the Search for a New British Growth Model”, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 15: 23-37.

Coats, D. 2013. Labor after New Labor: Escaping the Debt”, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 15: 38-52.

12. Lib-Dem

Evans, E. and E. Sanderson-Nash. 2011. “From Sandals to Suits: Professionalization, Coalition and the Liberal Democrats”, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 13: 459-473.

Cutts, D. 2012. “Yet Another False Dawn? An Examination of the Liberal Democrats’ Performance in the 2010 General Election”, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 14: 96-114.

13. The Extreme Right

Stoker, G. 2011. “Anti-Politics in Britain”, In: Cowley, P., C. Hay and R. Heffernan (eds.) Developments in British Politics 9, Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 153-173.

John, P. and H. Margetts. 2009. “The Latent Support for the Extreme Right in British Politics”, West European Politics 32(3): 496-513.

Macklin, G. 2013. “Transnational Networking on the Far Right: The Case of Britain and Germany”, West European Politics 36(1): 176-198.

14. War on Terror

Kettell, S. 2013. “Dilemmas of Discourse: Legitimizing Britain’s War on Terror”, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 15: 263-279.

Heath-Kelly, C. 2013. “Counter-Terrorism and the Counterfactual: Producing the “Radicalization” Discourse and the UK PREVENT Strategy”, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 15: 394-415.

Miller, W.L. 2011. “Religion, Risk and Legal Culture: Balancing Human Rights against a ‘War on Terror””, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 13: 514-533.

MacDonald, M.N., D. Hunter and J.P. O’Regan. 2013. “Citizenship, Community, and Counter-Terrorism: UK Security Discourse, 2001-2011”, Journal of Language and Politics (in press). Available on-line at: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/54268/

15. Interest Groups, Collective Action, and Protest Behavior

Statham, P. and A. Geddes. 2006. “Elites and the “Organized Public”: Who Drives British Immigration Politics and in which Direction?” West European Politics 29(2): 248-269.

Dalton, R. et al. 2009. “The Individual-Institutional Nexus of Protest Behavior”, British Journal of Political Science 40: 51-73.

Heffernan, R. 2011. “Pressure Group Politics”, In: Cowley, P., C. Hay and R. Heffernan (eds.) Developments in British Politics 9, Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 174-195.

16. Representation

Campbell, R. 2009. “Do Women Need Women Representatives?”, British Journal of Political Science 40: 171-194.

Sobolewska, M. 2013. “Party Strategies and the Descriptive Representation of Ethnic Minorities: The 2010 British General Election”, West European Politics 36(3): 615-633.

17. Social Integration and Cohesion

Mason, A. 2010. “Integration, Cohesion and National Identity: Theoretical Reflections on Recent British Policy”, British Journal of Political Science 40: 857-874.

Campbell, R. 2011. “The Politics of Diversity”, In: Cowley, P., C. Hay and R. Heffernan (eds.) Developments in British Politics 9, Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 196-214.

18. Public Expectations and Policy Responsiveness

Jennings, W. 2009. “The Public Thermostat, Political Responsiveness and Error-Correction: Border Control and Asylum in Britain, 1994-2007”, British Journal of Political Science 39: 847-870.

Jennings, W. and P. John. 2009. “The Dynamics of Political Attention: Public Opinion and the Queen’s Speech in the United Kingdom”, American Journal of Political Science 53(4): 838-854.

Flinders, M. and A. Kelso. 2011. “Mind the Gap: Political Analysis, Public Expectations and the Parliamentary Decline Thesis”, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 13: 249-268.

The LSE GV314 Group. 2012. “Research Note: Groups and the Limited Pluralism of the Set-Piece Consultation”, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 14: 175-186.

19. Accountability and Blame

Vivyan, N. and M. Wagner. 2012. “Do Voters Reward Rebellion? The Electoral Accountability of MPs in Britain”, European Journal of Political Research 51: 235-264.

Sulitzeanu-Kenan, R. 2010. “Reflection in the Shadow of Blame: When Do Politicians Appoint Commissions of Inquiry?”, British Journal of Political Science 40: 613-634.

King, A. and N. Allen. 2010. “”Off with their Heads”: British Prime Ministers and the Power to Dismiss”, British Journal of Political Science 40: 249-278.

20. Devolution and Strategic Opposition

Dewan, T. and A. Spirling. 2011. “Strategic Opposition and Government Cohesion in Westminster Democracies”, American Political Science Review 105(2): 337-358.

Scully, R. and Wyn Jones, R. 2011. Territorial Politics in the Post-Devolution United Kingdom”, In: Cowley, P., C. Hay and R. Heffernan (eds.) Developments in British Politics 9, Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 113-129.

Gormley-Heenan, C. 2011. “Power Sharing in Northern Ireland”, In: Cowley, P., C. Hay and R. Heffernan (eds.) Developments in British Politics 9, Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 130-151.

21. Prime-Ministerial Performance

Bannister, M, and R. Heffernan. 2012. “Cameron as Prime Minister: The Intra Executive Politics of Britain’s Coalition Government”, Parliamentary Affairs 65 (4): 778-801.

Dowding, K. 2013. “The Prime Ministerialization of the British Prime Minister”, Parliamentary Affairs, 66 (3): 617-635.

Dowding, K. 2013. “Prime-Ministerial Power Institutional and Personal Factors”, In: Strangio, P., P. ‘t Hart, and J. Walter (eds.) Understanding Prime-Ministerial Performance: Comparative Perspectives, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 57-78.

Heppell, T. 2013. “Prime Ministers and their Parties in the United Kingdom”, In: Strangio, P., P. ‘t Hart, and J. Walter (eds.) Understanding Prime-Ministerial Performance: Comparative Perspectives, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 129-150.

Theakston, K. 2013. “Evaluating Prime-Ministerial Performance: The British Experience”, In: Strangio, P., P. ‘t Hart, and J. Walter (eds.) Understanding Prime-Ministerial Performance: Comparative Perspectives, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 221-241.

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