The British Labour Party and monetary union

Gamble, Andrew; Kelly, Gavin

doi:10.1080/01402380008425349

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“…The third alternative would have been to declare that, after reassessing the economic case for monetary union, the government will not seek membership of the single currency. Although being at odds with Labour's 1997 manifesto, this option was favoured by a minority of outright opponents of monetary union among Labour MPs (Gamble and Kelly :11–20).…”

Section: Issue Salience and Noncompensatory Domestic Political Loss Amentioning

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Delineating the Scope Conditions of the Poliheuristic Theory of Foreign Policy Decision Making: The Noncompensatory Principle and the Domestic Salience of Foreign Policy

Oppermann

2012

Foreign Policy Anal

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The poliheuristic theory of foreign policy decision making would benefit from being clearer in spelling out the conditions under which it holds more or less analytic promise. The article makes the case that the concept of issue salience can help the theory address its shortcomings in this respect. In particular, the explanatory power of poliheuristic theory's two‐stage model largely depends on the noncompensatory principle of major domestic political loss avoidance on the first stage of the model to simplify the choice set to be considered on the second stage. This is more likely to happen, however, in the case of issues that are highly salient to a government's selectorate than in the case of issues that are of low salience in the domestic arena. The poliheuristic theory should thus be more powerful if it is applied to domestic high‐salience rather than low‐salience decisions. These theoretical contentions are illustrated in a case study on the decision making of the British Labour government under Tony Blair in the fields of European security and defense policy and the single European currency.

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Section: Issue Salience and Noncompensatory Domestic Political Loss Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Delineating the Scope Conditions of the Poliheuristic Theory of Foreign Policy Decision Making: The Noncompensatory Principle and the Domestic Salience of Foreign Policy

Oppermann

2012

Foreign Policy Anal

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“…Both Labour and the Conservatives must tolerate a degree of internal dissent and both must tailor at least some of their programmes and policies towards these supporters. This is especially true for the Conservative party (Berrington & Hague 1998) but Labour must also still play this game with its left-wing and some of the affiliated trade unions such as the RMT (transport union) (Gamble & Kelly 2000). Major and Blair both embraced a policy centred on economic appropriateness and a referendum in order to defuse the divisiveness of the issue within their respective parties.…”

Section: The Domestic Politics Of British Policy On the Euro 49mentioning

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The Domestic Politics of British Policy on the Euro

Howarth

2007

Journal of European Integration

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A wide variety of explanations have been applied by academics and journalists to explain the details of British government policy on the Euro. This article examines four leading explanations rooted in an analysis of domestic politics, arguing that British government reluctance to support Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) membership can be explained more in terms of ideologically infused intra-party politics and the realities of neo-pluralist (interest group) politics, while explanations rooted in an analysis of inter-party politics (electoral considerations) and public opinion are less helpful. The article also compares the relevance of the four domestic political explanations of British policy with regard to the positioning of respectively the two largest political parties in the country: (New) Labour and Conservative (Tory).

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“…Consequently, in order to lessen risk and to remove the threats to governing competence, various governments have continually searched for strategies to lessen the risk of devaluation and more particularly to find mechanisms to deflect blame (see Gamble and Kelly 2000; for a discussion of blame avoidance see Hood 2002). These have essentially all failed.…”

Section: Mad Money: Exchange Rate Policy 1964–1997mentioning

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Mad Cows and Mad Money: Problems of Risk in the Making and Understanding of Policy

Smith¹

2004

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Risk is now being widely used both as a way of understanding policy and decision‐making, and as a way of making decisions. However, there is little agreement on how risk is defined. For some risk is objective and measurable, while for others risk is subjective. What this article demonstrates is that because risk is a contested concept, it is extremely difficult to use it either as a tool for analysing government or for making decisions. In their different ways both scientists and social theorists assume an objectivity to risk. However, risk is not objective but contingent, and depends on decisions that are often related to issues of power. Consequently both governments and analysts are caught between matching subjective and political notions of risk with objective risk assessment. Two case studies are used, BSE in cows and British exchange rate policy, to demonstrate the difficulties in using risk as a way of analysing the policy process and for making decisions.

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The British Labour Party and monetary union

Cited by 51 publications

References 9 publications

Delineating the Scope Conditions of the Poliheuristic Theory of Foreign Policy Decision Making: The Noncompensatory Principle and the Domestic Salience of Foreign Policy

Delineating the Scope Conditions of the Poliheuristic Theory of Foreign Policy Decision Making: The Noncompensatory Principle and the Domestic Salience of Foreign Policy

The Domestic Politics of British Policy on the Euro

Mad Cows and Mad Money: Problems of Risk in the Making and Understanding of Policy

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