This book examines the UK prime minister’s political leadership in the domestic executive. By offering a comparative study of the political leadership of James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair with regard to European monetary policy, it challenges the thesis that British prime ministers today have more power, resources and autonomy than their predecessors, giving them a greater capacity to act.
Taking key European monetary policy decisions by the British government between 1976 and 2007 as empirical cases, the book assesses the extent to which the political leadership of each prime minister was affected by the cabinet, the parliamentary party as well as the media, and the extent to which he or she was able to manage these factors. It becomes clear from this analysis that prime ministerial predominance is not as frequent as suggested, while collective leadership does not represent a return to cabinet government. Moreover, particularly the party in government affects the prime minister’s leadership by shaping his or her options on appointments (and therefore the composition of the core executive), and through its behaviour in parliament, e.g. through rebellions or the threat of them.
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Year of Publication
2018
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Chapter 1:
Current Changes in Conditions and Contexts for Architectural Research and Practice ?A Brief Introduction
Michael U. Hensel and Fredrik Nilsson
Chapter 2:
Emerging Exit Strategies
Walter Unterrainer
Chapter 3:
Prototyping Practice
Anthony Burke
Chapter 4:
Consortium for Research Practices: Closing the knowledge loop between education and practice through research
Ren? Cheng and Andrea J. Johnson
Chapter 5:
Evolving Contours in Rethinking ?Reskilling ?Retooling: Life-long learning, Research Capacities and Lateral Networking
Michael U. Hensel
Chapter 6:
atelier d?rchitecture autog??: Transgressive practices for resilient urban agency
Doina Petrescu, Constantin Petcou and Fredrik Nilsson
Chapter 7:
The Relational Designs of Helen & Hard
Siv Stangeland and Michael U. Hensel
Chapter 8:
MVRDV + The Why Factory: Factoring the why in design practice
Winy Maas, Javier Arpa and Fredrik Nilsson
Chapter 9:
On the Necessity of Messy Research: Nader Tehrani
Brandon Clifford
Chapter 10:
Nordic - Office of Architecture: An Account of Current Research Efforts
John Arne Bjerknes, Kristine Andrule, Marcus Enskat, Christian Henriksen, Bridget White and John Christer H?by
Chapter 11:
Schmidt Hammer Lassen: Giving and gaining ?co-creating knowledge and exploring practice at SHL
Trine Berthold and Fredrik Nilsson
Chapter 12:
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill: Building on the Legacy of Technological and Architectural Innovation
Daniel Cashen and Neil Katz
Chapter 13:
Into Out of the Void
Joakim Wiig Hoen and Michael U. Hensel
Chapter 14:
Ideal Pragmatists: Research work at Sarah Wigglesworth Architects
Sarah Wigglesworth
Chapter 15:
Designing Fusion Points of Urban Design, Practice and Research ?The Case of ?vstranden Utveckling and RiverCity Gothenburg
Fredrik Nilsson, Lena Andersson and ?a Swan
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Bibliography
Index
Author
Birgit Bujard
ISBN/ISSN
9783319899527
Binding
Hardback
Edition
1
Publisher
Springer
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