Dr Stuart McAnulla's Publications
Books
(2006) British politics : a critical introduction pp. viii, 211p Continuum
Chapters
(2012) Tony Blair as Opposition Leader In: Leaders of the Opposition: From Winston Churchill to David Cameron Palgrave
(2012) Liberal Conservatism: Ideological Coherence? In: Heppell T; Seawright D (eds.) Cameron and the Conservatives. The Transition to Coalition Government Palgrave
(2011) Stephen Lukes: Power: A Radical View In: Volumes of Influence pp. 89 - 109 Manchester University Press
(2003) Shall I Compare Thee...? Evaluating the Politics of New Labour In: Lancaster S (eds.) Developments in British Politics Causeway Press
(2002) Structure and Agency In: Marsh D; Stoker G (eds.) Theory and methods in political science pp. 271 - 291 Palgrave Macmillan
Conferences
Paving the Thodes to Post-Positivism? A Critique of the New Interpretive Approach to British Politics- Towards a Realist Alternative Political Studies Association 2004
Journal Articles
(2007) New Labour, Old Epistemology? Reflections on Political Science, New Institutionalism and The Blair Government In: Parliamentary Affairs 60 (2) pp. 313 - 331 Oxford University Press, Academic Division
This article challenges recent work by the promoinent author Mark Bevir concerning the impact of positivist and new institutiopnalist perspectives on the governing strategies of new Labour. It argues that the influence of positivism is most troubling in that it neglects the role of social structure, creating a tendency for new Labour to be over-reliant on tecniques of obsevation and measurement. The article is original in setting out a fresh understanding of the intellectual links between social scince, political science, new Labour philosophy and the Blair Government's governing strategy. Furhermore it offers rare reflection on the relationship between debates concerning epistemology and practical approaches to public policy.
(2006) Challenging the New Interpretivist Approach: Towards a Critical Realist Alternative In: British Politics 1 (1) pp. 113 - 138
This peer-reviwed article offers a highly original critique of the newly fashionable interpretive approach to studying British politics and argues for an alternative based on critical realism. Its engages critically with key approaches to political science, including positivism, poststructuralism and the interpretivist perspective as articulated by Bevir and Rhodes. The paper combines in-depth engagement with dense philosophical, meta-theoretical and methodological issues, as well as discussion of practical analyses of the case studies of Thatcherism and New Labour. The paper makes one of very few attempts to date to bring critical realist ideas to bear in the context of political science.
(2005) Making Hay with Actualism: The Need For a Realist Concept of Structure In: Politics 25 (1) pp. 31 - 38 Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
(2011) Post-Political Poisons? Evaluating the 'Toxic' Dimensions of Tony Blair's Leadership In: Representation 47 (3) Taylor and Francis
(2010) Heirs to Blair’s Third Way? David Cameron’s Triangulating Conservatism In: British Politics 5 (3) pp. 286 - 314
(2010) ‘Forced Exits: Accounting for the Removal of Contemporary Party Leaders’ In: Political Quarterly 81 (4) pp. 593 - 601
(2009) Explaining the Forced Exit of Charles Kennedy: Pushing the Public-Private Boundary In: Politics 29 (1) pp. 37 - 44
(2007) New Labour Beyond Blair In: Parliamentary Affairs 60 (2) pp. 41 - 345 Oxford University Press, Academic Division
(2006) Critical Realism, Social Structure and Political Analysis: A Reply To Bevir and Rhodes In: British Politics 1 (3) pp. 404 - 412 Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
(2003) Modernising Local Government: Micro Organisational Reform and Changing Local Structural Configurations In: Local Government Studies 29 (4) pp. 31 - 53 Frank Cass
Contact Details
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- Email: s.d.mcanulla@leeds.ac.uk