Strangled at birth: the One Nation ideology of Theresa May

ABSTRACT

Contemporary and retrospective evaluation of Theresa May’s premiership inevitably focuses on the division, drift and indecision which characterized it. However, this article argues that although such narratives have considerable validity, they miss an important aspect of the May ‘project’, namely, its attempt to shift the contemporary Conservative Party’s ideology in a ‘One Nation’ direction in rhetoric if not necessarily in deed. The article begins with a conceptual and historical analysis of One Nation Conservatism and then places May within this tradition, principally through consideration of key statements she made as Prime Minister. It, therefore, adds an original perspective both on May’s government and on the ideological analysis of One Nation Conservatism, building on the existing literature.     

公民参与公共决策:协商民主的视角

晚近西方兴起的协商民主理论通常被看作是一种阐释公共决策合法性的理论,其目的是解决传统公共决策过程中缺乏公民参与和社会公正的弊端。通过对协商民主视角下公民参与公共决策的正当性、方式和困境的分析,可以更好地了解其理论与现实意义。     

The Romanticization of Charismatic Leadership in the Arts

ABSTRACT

This inter-disciplinary article focuses on the role, significance, and impact of charisma in cultural leadership. It brings together fresh empirical data with a critical review of the literature to investigate the role of charisma in the operation, reputation, and strategic success of arts organizations. For the first time, this article synthesizes a diverse range of literature from sociology, psychology, political science, management, and leadership studies and applies it critically to the context of the arts. This comprehensive review is compared against interviews with key stakeholders in the arts, which challenge the neo-charismatic literature on leadership and support a return to aspects of the original formulation of charisma, as envisaged by Max Weber. The article finds that charismatic leaders are seen as extraordinary individuals and are excessively romanticized by arts managers, policymakers, and audiences. It questions this normative bias and concludes that charismatic leaders should be treated with a degree of skepticism, even caution, to temper any negative impacts on "followers" and organizations.     

Planting families: Intent and outcome in the development of colonial Georgia

This article examines the evolution of a plantation society in the British American colony of Georgia. It explores the original intentions of founders and settlers, and how those intentions were discarded or adapted in the face of a volatile demographic environment. It uses information from land grant applications to describe the make-up of late colonial families, and locates the experiences of the Georgia population within the broader context of Atlantic population history. In particular, it argues that familial instability initially catalysed the emergence of a plantation system. The “family” was later accorded real significance in plantation Georgia only when it became serviceable to provincial elites, though it remained important as an organising unit beyond the plantation world, and as a source of shared aspirations.     

Harvest of sustainability: Recent books on environmental management

Sustainable Environmental Management. Edited by Kerry Turner. London: Pinter, 1988. Pp.ix + 292. £27.50. ISBN 1 85293 003 9.

The Theory of Environmental Policy. 2nd ed. By William Baumol and Wallace Oates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp.x+ 299. £35. ISBN 0 521 32224 3.

Deforestation: Social Dynamics in Watersheds and Mountain Ecosystems. Edited by J. Ives and D. Pitt. London: Routledge, 1988. Pp.xiii + 247. £35. ISBN 0 415 00456 X

Elevage et developpement au Niger. By Brigitte Thébaud. Geneva: ILO, 1988. Pp.xiv + 147. SFr 15. ISBN 92 2 205605 1.

Primary Resources and Energy in the Third World. By John Soussan. London: Routledge, 1988. Pp.vi + 114. £5.95. ISBN 0 415 00672 4.

Ecology and Development in the Third World. By Avijit Gupta. London: Routledge, 1988. Pp.vii + 80. £5.95. ISBN 0 415 00673 2.

International Environmental Diplomacy. Edited by John E. Carroll. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp.299. £35. ISBN 0 521 33437 3.     

The Kerala model of development a debate (Part 2)

Abstract

Every year hundreds are killed and millions made homeless by floods in the Ganges and Brahmaputra Basins. Every year millions go hungry because of the low productivity of agriculture in the region and the unequal distribution of its benefits. Some thirty percent of the world's poorest 800 million people live in the Basins of the Ganges and Brahmaputra. Their future prosperity depends both on changed agrarian relations and on the development of the resources of the two rivers. While coordinated development of the rivers could increase agricultural productivity and provide enormous quantities of hydroelectricity for the three main countries of the region—India, Nepal and Bangladesh—for the last thirty years such development has been precluded by intergovernmental dispute over the sharing of the Ganges. The conduct of the dispute is frequently determined by the immediate political needs of the factions in power in India and Bangladesh. As long as that remains the case, proposals for the regulation and development of the Ganges and Brahmaputra are likely to stagnate.