School of Politics and International Studies

Research Interests

My research interests are in British party politics and political leadership, with recent publications being focused around leadership selection, opposition leadership and coalition leadership. I am the Treasurer for the Political Studies Association Specialist Group in Political Leadership.

Teaching

For 2012-2013 I am module leader for the following modules:

• PIED1000 British Politics
• PIED2123 The Conservative Party from Churchill to Cameron
• PIED2128 The Labour Party from Attlee to Brown

PhD Supervision

Current research students:

Tom McMeeking: Reassessing the Political Leadership of John Major using the Greenstein Model

Ed Lack: Modernisation in Opposition: A Comparison between Blair and New Labour and Cameron and the Conservatives

Samuel Barratt: Leadership Strategy within the Liberal Democrats from Ashdown to Clegg

Key Publications

Books

• Heppell, T. (2013, forthcoming) The Tories from Winston Churchill to David Cameron (London: Bloomsbury).
• Heppell, T. and Theakston, K. (eds.), (2013 forthcoming) How Labour Governments Fall: From Ramsay MacDonald to Gordon Brown (Basingstoke: Palgrave).
• Heppell, T. (ed.), (2012) Leaders of the Opposition: From Churchill to Cameron (Basingstoke: Palgrave).
• Heppell, T. and Seawright, D. (eds.), (2012) Cameron and the Conservatives: The Transition to Coalition Government (Basingstoke: Palgrave).
• Heppell, T. (2010) Choosing the Labour Leader: Labour Party Leadership Elections from Wilson to Brown (London: I. B. Tauris)
• Heppell, T. (2008) Choosing the Tory Leader: Conservative Party Leadership Elections from Heath to Cameron (London: I. B. Tauris)

Guest Edited Special Issue

• McCargo, D. and Heppell, T. (2011) Toxic Political Leadership, Special Issue of Representation, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 241-342.

Chapters in Books

• Heppell T and McMeeking T (2013 forthcoming) ‘Fight and Fight Again: The Oratory of Hugh Gaitskell’, in Hayton R and Crines A (eds.) Labour Orators: From Bevan to Brown (Manchester: Manchester University Press).
• Heppell, T. (2013 forthcoming), ‘The Fall of the Brown Government 2010’, in Heppell, T. and Theakston, K. (eds.), How Labour Governments Fall: From Ramsay MacDonald to Gordon Brown (Basingstoke: Palgrave).
• Heppell T (2013 forthcoming) British Prime Ministers and their Parties In: Strangio P; t'Hart P; Walter J (eds.) Prime Ministerial Leadership: Power, Party and Performance in Westminster Systems (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
• Honeyman, V. and Heppell, T. (2012), ‘Clement Attlee 1951-1955’, in Heppell, T. (ed.), Leaders of the Opposition: From Churchill to Cameron (Basingstoke: Palgrave).
• Heppell, T. (2012), ‘Hugh Gaitskell 1955-1963’, in Heppell, T. (ed.), Leaders of the Opposition: From Churchill to Cameron (Basingstoke: Palgrave).
• Heppell, T. and Hill, M. (2012), ‘Labour in Opposition’, in Heppell, T. and Seawright, D. (eds.) Cameron and the Conservatives: The Transition to Coalition Government (Basingstoke: Palgrave).
• Heppell, T. (2011), ‘New Labour, Social Justice and Electoral Strategy’, in Bryson, V. and Fisher, P. (eds.), Redefining Social Justice: New Labour Rhetoric and Reality (Manchester: Manchester University Press).

Journal Articles

• Heppell, T. (2013 forthcoming), ‘Cameron and Liberal Conservatism: Attitudes within the Parliamentary Conservative Party and Conservative Ministers’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations,
• Heppell T (2012), ‘Ministerial Selection and the Cameron Government: Female Ministerial Representation and the One-Third Objective’, Representation, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 209-219
• Heppell, T. and Hayton, R. (2010), ‘The Quiet Man of British Politics: The Rise, Fall and Significance of Iain Duncan Smith’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 63, No. 3, pp. 425-455.
• Heppell, T. and Lightfoot, S. (2012), “‘We will not balance the books on the backs of the poorest people in the world” Understanding Conservative Party Strategy on International Aid’, Political Quarterly, Vol. 83, No. 1, pp. 130-138.
• Heppell, T. (2011), ‘New Labour and Departmental Restructuring’ Political Quarterly, Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 425-434.
• Heppell, T. (2011), ‘Toxic Leadership: Applying the Lipman-Blumen Model to Political Leadership’ Representation, Vol. 47, No 2, pp. 241-250.

Media Contact Areas

I am happy to be contacted regarding the following areas.

• British political parties
• Party political leadership