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Leadership and the Labour Party: Narrative and Performance
John Gaffney
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Description for Leadership and the Labour Party: Narrative and Performance
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership. Num Pages: 260 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JPA; JPHL; JPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
The relationships between narrative and leadership, between rhetoric and performance, between doctrine and its voicing, are crucial to party politics and are underrated by both practising politicians and scholars. This study analyses the `performance of leadership' in the UK Labour Party, and what this means for a new approach to understanding politics. The main focus of this study is the five-year leadership of Ed Miliband, 2010-2015. The fortunes of the party and the party leadership can be apprehended as a series of performed rhetorical events. A political leader's persona is a construction ... Read more
The relationships between narrative and leadership, between rhetoric and performance, between doctrine and its voicing, are crucial to party politics and are underrated by both practising politicians and scholars. This study analyses the `performance of leadership' in the UK Labour Party, and what this means for a new approach to understanding politics. The main focus of this study is the five-year leadership of Ed Miliband, 2010-2015. The fortunes of the party and the party leadership can be apprehended as a series of performed rhetorical events. A political leader's persona is a construction ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership
Number of Pages
267
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137504975
SKU
V9781137504975
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99-15
About John Gaffney
John Gaffney is Professor of Politics at Aston University, Birmingham, UK and Co-Director of the Aston Centre for Europe.
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