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dc.contributor.authorByrne, C
dc.contributor.authorTheakston, K
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-20T08:46:31Z
dc.date.issued2018-03-26
dc.description.abstractUnderstanding the power of the prime minister is important because of the centrality of the prime minister within the core executive of British government, but existing models of prime ministerial power are unsatisfactory for various reasons. This article makes an original contribution by providing an overview and critique of the dominant models of prime ministerial power, highlighting their largely positivist bent and the related problem of the prevalence of overly parsimonious conceptions of the structural contexts prime ministers face. The central argument the paper makes is that much of the existing literature on prime ministerial power is premised on flawed understandings of the relationship between structure and agency, that this leads to misunderstandings of the real scope of prime ministerial agency, as well as its determinants, and that this can be rectified by adopting a strategic-relational view of structure and agency.en_GB
dc.identifier.citationPublished online 28 March 2018en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1057/s41293-018-0087-7
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/32539
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillanen_GB
dc.rights.embargoreasonUnder embargo until 26 March 2019 in compliance with publisher policyen_GB
dc.rights© Macmillan Publishers Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2018en_GB
dc.subjectPrime ministeren_GB
dc.subjectPolitical leadershipen_GB
dc.subjectPolitical timeen_GB
dc.subjectStructure-agencyen_GB
dc.subjectStrategic-relational approachen_GB
dc.titleUnderstanding the power of the prime minister: structure and agency in models of prime ministerial poweren_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.identifier.issn1746-918X
dc.descriptionThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Palgrave Macmillan via the DOI in this recorden_GB
dc.identifier.journalBritish Politicsen_GB


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