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The ontological failure of David Cameron’s ‘modernisation’ of the Conservative Party
David Cameron’s leadership of the Conservatives took as its starting point the assumption that the party needed to modernise, requiring a move...
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The impact agenda and the study of British politics
This article attempts to discern the nature of impact in relation to the British politics sub-field of political studies. It reviews evidence from...
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Cameron’s Conservative Party, social liberalism and social justice
Social liberalism has consistently been highlighted as arguably the defining feature of David Cameron’s project to modernise the Conservative Party....
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Whatever happened to Conservative Party modernisation?
By way of an introduction to this special issue, our aim here is to bring together and interpret some of the main themes and issues to come out of...
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The Presidentialization of Party Politics in the UK
Although constitutional reforms undertaken since 1997 have created new substate legislative and executive bodies (most notably in Scotland, Wales,...
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Rhetoric and Morality — How the Coalition Justifies Welfare Policy
At the time of its formation, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition government elevated reducing the deficit in the public finances above all...
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Fixing Broken Britain
The contention that British society was broken and in need of repair, was a leitmotif of David Cameron’s tenure as leader of the opposition. In his...
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Iain Duncan Smith, 2001–3
During the 1998 Party Conference The Sun famously pronounced the Conservative Party dead. As a Hague-faced parrot swung from its perch, the...
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FlexiNet: A Flexible, Component-Oriented Middleware System
The FlexiNet Platform is a Java middleware platform that features a component based internal structure with strong emphasis placed on reflection and...
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A Mobile Object Workbench
Existing mobile agent systems are often constructed with a focus on intelligence and autonomy issues. We have approached mobility from a different...