Governing Against the Tide: Populism, Power and the Party Conference
Journal article
Authors | Guiney, Tom and Farrall, Stephen |
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Abstract | In this paper we argue that a tendency to treat populism as a ubiquitous, mechanistic characteristic of contemporary penality has impeded systematic theoretical discussion of how populist ideologies find contingent expression within national penal systems. Drawing upon an agonistic perspective we seek to show that the intersection between populism and punishment must be understood as a structured process that is shaped by struggle between actors with different types, and amounts, of political power. We illustrate these claims with reference to a historical case study of the 1981 British Conservative Party Conference; a political calendar ritual that facilitated symbolic conflict and provided an institutional point of entry for populist movements seeking to disrupt the prevailing liberal consensus on crime and secure substantive policy concessions from government. |
Keywords | populism; populist ideologies; British Conservative Party Conference |
Year | 2022 |
Journal | Theoretical Criminology |
Publisher | Sage |
ISSN | 1461-7439 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806221081504 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/626315 |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
hdl:10545/626315 | |
Publication dates | 24 Feb 2022 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 04 Mar 2022, 15:01 |
Accepted | 01 Feb 2022 |
Rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
Contributors | University of Nottingham and University of Derby |
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https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/921z0/governing-against-the-tide-populism-power-and-the-party-conference
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