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POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION AWARDS 2008

25 NOVEMBER 2008

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Political Studies Association Awards 2008

Welcome

It is an honour and pleasure to welcome you to the 2008 Political Studies AssociationAwards. I have recently taken over as Chair of the Association from Jon Tonge, whohelped to establish the Awards ceremony as a regular calendar event. It is now in itsseventh year.

The Political Studies Association is the main association in the UK responsible fordeveloping and promoting political studies, both as an intellectual field and as aprofession. After the American Political Science Association, it is the second largest suchassociation in the world. The Awards ceremony is an opportunity for the PSA to highlightand celebrate academics, journalists and politicians who have made an outstandingcontribution to public political life, analysis and debate in the preceding year.

Each year, as interest in the Awards ceremony has grown, the numbers of individualsnominated for the different categories of award have increased. This has made the taskof the jurors more challenging, but we are satisfied that this year’s awards areextremely well earned. In these times of global political and economic turbulence theimportance of clear dispassionate analysis, honest and informative reporting andcourageous political leadership has never been clearer. The individuals to be honouredtoday exemplify these virtues.

We are once more indebted to a range of contributors for the effort and enterprise thathas made the Awards ceremony possible. Firstly we must thank members of the awardsjury and in particular Professor Lord Bhikhu Parekh who hosted the jurors’ meeting andDr Katharine Adeney who chaired it. Thanks, too, to James Naughtie who has againtaken on the role of Master of Ceremonies; to those in the PSA National Office,especially Sue Forster, and Simon Coote of Alive Events who have worked so hard toensure organizational continuity of the event; and to Ipsos MORI who, in collaborationwith the PSA, have conducted the poll on ‘The best American President’. Finally thanksto Wiley-Blackwell, Routledge and the Economic and Social Research Council for theirvery generous sponsorship of this year’s ceremony.

Warmest congratulations to our winners and we hope that you all enjoy today’sproceedings.

Professor Vicky RandallChair, Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom

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Political Studies Association Award Winners 2008


Political Studies Communication Award

PROFESSOR TONY TRAVERS

THE JUDGES SAYA distinguished academic with a plethora ofpublications holding academic and publicpolicy impact, Professor Tony Travers is oneof the leading authorities on central-localrelations, political decentralisation and localgovernment. Academic distinction has beencomplemented by a major input to Britishpolitical life through his advice to nationalgovernment and contribution to goodgovernance in London. The 2008 award for Political Communication is merited due to the way in which academicknowledge, perceptive judgement and first-rate broadcasting skills were married in a series of shrewd and incisive judgements and commentaries on theLondon mayoral election.

Tony Travers was born in North Wales,went to school in the Midlands and took a degree in London. He has worked at theLondon School of Economics and PoliticalScience since 1987 and previously at theNorth East London Polytechnic. He hasworked within higher education for over30 years but has also maintained anumber of outside interests.

Travers’ research has centred on localgovernment, local government finance,education finance and the government of London. He was co-author, with JohnPratt and Tyrrell Burgess, of Costs andControl in Further Education (1978) andwrote an extended study of localauthority funding in The Politics of LocalGovernment Finance (1986).

In 1994, he co-authored (with DavidButler and Andrew Adonis) Failure in BritishGovernment – the Politics of the Poll Tax, a detailed analysis of one of the biggestBritish policy adventures of modern times,with long-term implications for bothWhitehall and local councils. This workwas followed by Attitudes to LocalGovernment in Westminster and Whitehall(1994) and The New Government ofLondon (1997), both with George Jones.

Further work on London included The London Government Handbook, co-edited with Michael Hebbert (1988)and The Politics of London Governing andUngovernable City (2004). These studiesanalysed the government of London aftermajor reforms in 1986 and 2000, placingmodern arrangements within theirhistorical context.

In addition to work on London and otherBritish cities, Travers has been involved ininternational comparative studies,including (with Gerry Stoker) The Mayor-Council Model: Lessons from Barcelona,(1999) and London-New York Study: Theeconomies of two great cities at themillennium, edited with Rosemary Scanlonand Greg Clark, 2000.

Beyond his academic work, Travers hasworked since 1980 as an advisor to anumber of parliamentary committees,currently including the Children, Schoolsand Families Committee (and itspredecessors responsible for education,skills, the arts and libraries) and theCommunities and Local GovernmentCommittee. He was a Member of theAudit Commission from 1992 to 1997, a Senior Associate of the Kings Fund from1998 to 2004, a member of the TouringPanel of the Arts Council from 2000 to2003 and a member of the WorkingGroup on Finance for the Urban Task Force in 1998-99.

He is a regular contributor to thebroadcast media, and has written for theLondon Evening Standard, The Guardian,The Times, The Daily Telegraph, theFinancial Times, The New York Times, theLocal Government Chronicle, PublicFinance and other publications.

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THE JUDGES SAYAcademic jurors praised the forensicintellect which had yielded a plethora ofseminal publications, whilst journalist jurorsalso highlighted the erudite and informativecontributions to debate offered by ProfessorBogdanor in numerous broadcasts and viapenetrating newspaper pieces. ProfessorBogdanor’s work on constitutions has beenof incalculable academic and public benefitand his books are authoritative works ontheir subjects. The judges also noted thebroader contribution of Professor Bogdanorto public life in the service of democracy,including advice to governments, work forthe Hansard Society and assistance to theEconomic and Social Research Council.

Vernon Bogdanor was born in 1943 inHampton Court, Surrey. He won an Open Scholarship to The Queen’s College,Oxford, where he read PPE. He waselected as a Fellow of Brasenose College,Oxford, in 1966 and has since served theCollege as Senior Tutor, Vice-Principal andActing Principal. He was appointedProfessor of Government at OxfordUniversity in 1996, and in 2004 he was also elected Professor of Law atGresham College, London. Since 2008 he has been Visiting Gresham Professor of American Studies.

Vernon Bogdanor’s academic work hasfocused primarily, though not exclusively,on the history and structure of the Britishconstitution. He has written or edited anumber of seminal books, includingDevolution (1979), The People and theParty System (1981), The Monarchy andthe Constitution (1995), Devolution in theUnited Kingdom (1999) and The BritishConstitution in the Twentieth Century(2003). In his work he has longemphasised the importance ofrecognising Britain’s constitution as afundamentally political entity, in that itsworking depends as much upon politicalcontingencies as upon constitutionalprinciples.

Vernon Bogdanor has combined hisacademic work with broadcasting andjournalism, providing viewers and readerswith incisive commentary onconstitutional matters. Between 1981and 1998 he was a member of theCouncil of the Hansard Society forParliamentary Government, and he hasserved as a member of the AcademicPanel of Local Authority Associations andas Special Adviser to both the House of

Lords Select Committee on the EuropeanCommunities and the House ofCommons Select Committee on thePublic Services. His expertise has alsobeen in demand overseas. Between 1989and 1993, as a member of Council ofEurope and American Bar Associationdelegations, he advised a number of post-Communist governments onconstitutional and electoral reform. In2001 he acted as Adviser to the Presidentof Trinidad on the Constitution ofTrinidad, and in 2006 he advised on anew constitution for Kosovo.

Vernon Bogdanor has long beenrecognised as one of the most eminentscholars in his field. In 1997 he waselected a Fellow of the British Academy,and in the same year he was made anHonorary Fellow of the Institute forAdvanced Legal Studies. In 1998 he wasawarded a CBE in virtue of his work inconstitutional history. His guiding aim hasbeen to make the British constitution alittle less puzzling. This aim has beenachieved throughout his working life, tothe benefit of the public, prime ministersand princes.


Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies

PROFESSOR VERNON BOGDANOR CBE FBA

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THE JUDGES SAYBoris Johnson scored a famous victory inthe 2008 contest for London Mayor. Takingon a formidable opponent in KenLivingstone, he ran a remarkable campaignwhich mobilised the electorate, reflected ina high turnout. Boris Johnson infused thecontest with a series of imaginative ideas (a point conceded by his main opponent);ran a campaign based on positive politicsrather than negative or personal slurs andreturned many 1997-2005 Conservative‘deserters’ to the party. This hugelyimpressive campaign was climaxed by amagnanimous victory speech, followed byrapid implementation of his policy agenda.

Boris Johnson was born in 1964 in NewYork. He was a King’s Scholar at EtonCollege and read Classics at Balliol College,Oxford. While a student, he was electedPresident of the Oxford Union. He beganhis journalistic career at The Times beforejoining The Daily Telegraph in 1989 andlater The Spectator, which he edited from1999. He unsuccessfully contested the1997 General Election as the Conservativecandidate in Clwyd South. He was thenselected to succeed Michael Heseltine asthe Conservative candidate for Henley, aconstituency he won in 2001. He laterrecounted his experience of the election inthe entertaining Friends, Voters,Countrymen: Jottings on the Stump (2002).

Boris Johnson initially combined hisparliamentary career with editing TheSpectator. In 2004 he was appointed to theConservative frontbench as shadowMinister for the Arts. After returning brieflyto the backbenches, he was appointed asshadow Minister for Higher Education inDecember 2005. He stepped down as TheSpectator’s editor shortly afterwards. Lessthan two years later, he resigned from theparty’s frontbench to concentrate on a newproject: winning the London mayoralty.

In September 2007 Boris Johnson wasconfirmed as the Conservative Party’scandidate for the 2008 London mayoralelection. Despite hostile commentary insome quarters of the national press, hewent on to win a famous victory, defeatingthe incumbent Labour mayor KenLivingstone. His effective campaignmobilised the electorate and contributed toa major Conservative victory in thatmonth’s local elections. His victory speechshowed unexpected magnanimity – hedescribed Mr Livingstone as ‘a very

considerable public servant’ – and hemoved swiftly to implement his policyagenda, including a ban on alcohol use onpublic transport. His first months in officealso saw him working to address theproblem of knife crime and acting tostrengthen the management and control of London’s finances. As the capital’s firstcitizen, he attended the closing ceremonyof the 2008 Olympics in Beijing andreceived the Olympic flag to mark thehandover to London as the host city in 2012.

Boris Johnson brings a unique combinationof political nous and affability to Britishpolitics. He is also that rare phenomenon, a mononymous politician. As ‘Boris’, he iswell known to millions of voters throughhis writing, his journalism and his televisionappearances. He is a controversialcharacter, and his exploits have sometimescaused headaches for the ConservativeParty leadership. But he is also a seriouspolitician. As the 2008 London mayoralelection demonstrated, his politicalopponents underestimate him at their peril.



Politician of the Year

BORIS JOHNSON

THE JUDGES SAYVince Cable delivered the single mosteffective and withering verdict on GordonBrown as Prime Minister. His ‘Mr Bean’observation was one of the most hilariousmoments witnessed in parliament; witty,biting and a potent mix of the absurd buttrue. As Simon Hoggart wrote in TheGuardian, ‘Even Labour membersdesperately tried to hide their amusementfrom the whips’. Beyond this now-legendary parliamentary aside, the judgesnoted the effective parliamentarycontributions made by Vince Cable on arange of economic matters and his overallhighly effective performances as actingLiberal Democrat leader prior to theelection of Nick Clegg.

Vince Cable was born in 1943 in York. Heread Natural Sciences and Economics atFitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where hewas elected President of the CambridgeUnion. He continued his studies atGlasgow University, obtaining a PhD inEconomics. He has lectured at Glasgow,served as a special adviser to John Smithin James Callaghan’s Labour Government,worked as deputy director at theOverseas Development Institute, and waslatterly employed as chief economist atShell International. He stood in the 1970general election as the Labour candidatein Glasgow Hillhead before joining theSDP in the early 1980s and unsuccessfullycontesting the York constituency in 1983and 1987. He then joined the LiberalDemocrats and entered Parliament as theMember for Twickenham in 1997. He wasre-elected with an increased majority in2001 and again in 2005.

Vince Cable served his party as a shadowTreasury spokesman between 1997 and1999 before being appointed as theparty’s shadow Trade and IndustrySecretary. He has been the LiberalDemocrats’ shadow Chancellor of theExchequer since 2003. In that capacity, he has been an authoritative voice on arange of issues, including rising levels ofpersonal debt and, more recently, thecrisis that engulfed Northern Rock.

Following Charles Kennedy’s resignationas Liberal Democrat leader in January2006, Vince Cable stood for the party’sdeputy leadership and was duly elected.In October 2007 he found himself as theparty’s acting leader when Sir MenziesCampbell, Kennedy’s successor as leader,stepped down.

Although he later ruled himself out as acandidate for the leadership, Vince Cableproved a highly effective stand-in leader,especially at Prime Ministers’ Questionswhere he delivered the parliamentaryput-down of 2007: in the wake ofallegations that secret donations hadbeen made to the Labour Party, hedescribed Gordon Brown’s ‘remarkabletransformation in the last few weeks fromStalin to Mr Bean.’ For his brief turn asacting leader, he was chosen as the 2008House Magazine Opposition Politician ofthe Year in a ballot of MPs of all parties.

Vince Cable remained his party’s deputyleader and shadow Chancellor of theExchequer following Nick Clegg’s electionas leader in December 2007. Hecontinues to speak with authority oneconomic, industrial and financialmatters, and is a respected advocate ofeconomic liberalism. Away from politicshe is a keen ballroom dancer and wishesto appear on the BBC’s Strictly ComeDancing. If his political performance in2007 is anything to go by, he is at hisbest in the limelight.


Parliamentarian of the Year

VINCE CABLE

THE JUDGES SAYFrank Field was deemed Backbencher of theYear by the judges following his persistentand intelligent pressuring of his owngovernment to address the problem createdby the abolition of the 10 pence tax rate.Consistent with his broader efforts to assistthe low-paid, Frank Field’s demands forcompensatory government action provedsuccessful. One of the most cerebral ofbackbenchers, Frank Field continues to offermeasured and effective contributions todebates on low pay, welfare and pensions,and his innovative and radical input to debateis also indicated via his plethora ofchallenging and thoughtful publications onthese subjects.

Frank Field was born in 1942 in Chiswick,West London. He read Economics at theUniversity of Hull. Following work as afurther education lecturer in London, hebecame director of the Child PovertyAction Group between 1969 and 1979 andalso director of the Low Pay Unit from1974 to 1980. In his youth he was briefly a member of the Young Conservatives butjoined the Labour Party in 1959 over hisopposition to Apartheid in South Africa. Hestood unsuccessfully at the 1966 generalelection in South Buckinghamshire andthirteen years later was selected as theLabour Party’s candidate for the safe seatof Birkenhead. He has represented thatconstituency continuously since 1979.

Frank Field was appointed to the Labouropposition frontbench as an educationspokesman in 1980 and as a spokesman onhealth and social security in 1983. In 1987he was appointed chairman of the Houseof Commons Social Security Committee,continuing in that role until 1997.Following New Labour’s success in thegeneral election of that year, he wasappointed as a minister in the Departmentof Social Security and charged withimplementing reform of the welfare andbenefits system. Following politicaldisagreement and controversy over hisproposals, he resigned in 1998 andreturned to the backbenches.

In Parliament Frank Field has acquired areputation for ‘thinking the unthinkable.’Whether contributing to the public debateon pensions, welfare or immigration, he isrespected for being ‘prepared to speak hismind regardless of party constraints.’ Hisindependence was highlighted in 2008 overhis role in pressing the Labour Governmentto address the problems created by its

abolition of the 10 pence tax rate. Hisdemands for compensation for thoseaffected by the change resulted in a much-publicised government climb-down and animprovised readjustment of personal taxallowances. It was a good example of howfocused backbench pressure can affectgovernment policy.

Frank Field’s subsequent apology toGordon Brown for allowing his campaign to get personal was equally typical. He is apractising Anglican, a member of theChurch of England General Synod, a formerchairman of the Churches ConservationTrust and current chairman of theCathedral Fabric Commission for England, a body which oversees the care andconservation of all Church of Englandcathedrals. In 1999 he established thePension Reform Group, a body he stillchairs, and he continues to champion thecause of the low paid. With hisindependence of mind and occasionallyradical contributions, he is a finerepresentative in the Burkean tradition.



Backbencher of the Year

RT HON FRANK FIELD MP

THE JUDGES SAYA surprise choice as Chief Inspector ofPrisons, Anne Owers has continued thepioneering, radical work she once undertookfor the pressure group Justice, when unafraidto do battle with the government. Heropposition to the continuous building ofprisons and increases in the prisonpopulation may not be populist, but isalways based on reasoned, constructiveargument and strong principle. Anne Owershas consistently highlighted the failings ofmass imprisonment in terms of recidivism,mental illness and other problems. Heropposition to so-called ‘titan’ prisons,establishments of such magnitude as toseverely magnify the ailments she highlights,has been an important contribution to anongoing debate.

Anne Owers was born in 1947 in Boldon,Tyne and Wear. She was anundergraduate at Girton College,Cambridge, where she read History.Between 1968 and 1971 she taught andresearched in Zambia. After working atthe Joint Council for the Welfare ofImmigrants, she was appointed Directorof Justice, the human rights and lawreform organisation. In 2001 she wasappointed Her Majesty’s Chief Inspectorof Prisons, the first woman to hold thepost. Her initial appointment wasextended for two years in 2006 and again in 2008.

Anne Owers gained national recognitionas a human rights campaigner during hertime at Justice, and she was something ofa surprise choice to replace Sir DavidRamsbotham as Chief Inspector ofPrisons. In that role she heads anorganisation responsible for inspecting all prisons and immigration detentionfacilities in England and Wales. Herinspections are guided by four key tests:that prisoners and detainees are heldsafely; that they are treated with respect;that they are engaged in purposeful andbeneficial activity; and that they areprepared for return to the community.

Anne Owers’ reports have drawnattention to a number of systemicfailings, including the treatment ofmentally ill prisoners, the need for moreeffective resettlement programmes andthe problem of prison suicides. She is avocal critic of the effects of a ‘predictedand predictable’ prison-population crisisand has pointed out the dangers ingovernment plans to build so-called‘Titan’ jails, each capable of holding 2,500prisoners. Her criticisms have beenreasoned, evidence-based and, above all,

constructive. As she points out, it is hardto keep prisoners safe and occupied inlarger facilities. She is also a vocaladvocate of the need for an informedpublic debate on the purpose of prison.

Anne Owers’ commitment to publicservice is matched by her commitment to human rights. In the 1970s she was amember of the Race RelationsCommission in the diocese of Southwark.In the 1990s she chaired the Board ofTrustees of the Refugee Legal Centre andwas a Member of the Lord Chancellor’sAdvisory Committee on Legal Educationand Conduct. More recently she served on the Home Office’s Task Force on theHuman Rights Act and on the LegalServices Consultative Panel. In 2000 shewas awarded a CBE for her human rightswork, and in 2008 she was named as thenew Chair of Christian Aid. A campaignerin the tradition of Elizabeth Fry, AnneOwers has helped to improve conditionsin individual prisons and contributedmuch to the ongoing debate on theprison system.


Setting the Political Agenda

ANNE OWERS CBE

THE JUDGES SAYThe Political Studies Association Judges’Award goes to Michael Cockerell inrecognition of his magnificent series ofdocumentaries and profiles on Britishpolitical life and leaders. Alwaysentertaining, informative and superblynarrated, the profiles of political figuressuch as Edward Heath, Roy Jenkins, DavidCameron and, most recently, Tony Blair,have been equally revelatory and thought-provoking. Michael Cockerell’s broadcastscontain that rare quality of containing themass of substance and insight necessary tointerest regular politics watchers, whilstalso being sufficiently fascinating to bringin a much broader audience of viewers,intrigued at the interplays of personalityand politics skilfully married in hisprogrammes.

Michael Cockerell was born in 1940 inLondon. He read PPE at Corpus Christi,Oxford, before beginning his long careerin journalism. He joined the BBC in 1966as a producer, initially with the AfricanService but soon transferred to CurrentAffairs. At the BBC he became best knownas a reporter with the Corporation’sflagship Panorama programme, winning anumber of awards, and writing two booksabout politicians and the media. Since1987 he has specialised in making in-depth television documentaries aboutsome of Westminster’s leading playersand institutions.

Michael Cockerell has the distinction ofhaving interviewed the last eight Britishprime ministers. James Callaghan triedand failed to bully him in their firstencounter, and he enjoyed something ofa ‘love-hate’ relationship with MargaretThatcher. He has made at least 25 filmsprofiling major politicians, including BettyBoothroyd, Barbara Castle, Alan Clark,David Cameron, Edward Heath, MichaelHoward, Roy Jenkins and Enoch Powell.

In a recent interview, Michael Cockerellexplained how he selected his subjects:‘They have to have been in the roomduring the big events and know wherethe bodies are buried; they have to have what Denis Healey called ahinterland and be prepared to talk with some candour.’

Some of Michael Cockerell’s films aboutTony Blair’s premiership have beenparticularly notable. For his 2000 BBC TVdocumentary News from Number Ten, hepersuaded Blair’s press secretary AlastairCampbell to allow himself to beshadowed over four months and was

given unprecedented access to variousmeetings and lobby briefings. The resultwas a revealing record of DowningStreet’s relations with the media. In 2007the BBC broadcast his three-part historyof Blair’s premiership, Blair: The InsideStory. Based on a number of candidinterviews with Downing Street insiders,cabinet colleagues and political rivals, the series portrayed a sharp contrastbetween Blair’s first months as a newprime minister, his period as a wartimeleader and his final beleaguered monthsin office.

Michael Cockerell is the master of Britishpolitical documentary making. He is avisiting lecturer at LSE and was last yearawarded an Honorary Doctorate by theUniversity of East Anglia. His films areilluminating, witty and insightful. He hasastonishing access to some of Britain’smost heavyweight politicians, which heexploits to perfection, exposing theinterplay between personality and powerat the very top. The results of his workare unique. They are of real interest tothe viewing public and of substantial useto academic commentators.



PSA Judges Award

MICHAEL COCKERELL

THE JUDGES SAYSteve Richards was awarded PoliticalJournalist of the Year for his impressive andperceptive contributions to politicaldebate across a variety of outlets. Hiscolumns in The Independent are invariablyshrewd and perceptive, recently presentingproper, fair-minded analysis of theproblems created by – and afflicting –Gordon Brown, offering refreshinglyinsightful reading. GMTV’s SundayProgramme was always worth watching forthe quality of a Steve Richards’ interview,which allowed the subject to opine in thesure knowledge that skilful questioningwould follow. Similarly, Richards’presentation of BBC Radio 4’s Week inWestminster is always lively andinformative.

Steve Richards was born in 1960 inLondon. He read history at the Universityof York before embarking on a journalismcourse at the London College of Printing.He started working life in BBC local radioand television in Newcastle and became a BBC political correspondent in 1990. He was Political Editor for the NewStatesman between 1996 and 2000 after which he joined The Independentas its chief political commentator. He also writes occasionally for the Evening Standard, Spectator and Times Literary Supplement.

Steve Richards is a broadcaster as well as writer. For seven years he presentedGMTV’s flagship current affairs show TheSunday Programme and is a presenter ofBBC Radio 4’s Week in Westminster. Hehas chaired Radio 4’s light-hearted quizshow, Parliamentary Questions and was aregular contributor to BBC News’ Head 2Head weekly debate programme. He hasalso written and presented several filmsfor Channel 4 on Tony Blair.

As a journalist and presenter SteveRichards has interviewed most of themajor figures in contemporary Britishpolitics. Despite its early hour, The SundayProgramme regularly attracted seniorpoliticians from all the main parties, andmany of the interviews, like his interviewswhen he was political editor of the NewStatesman, made the news. SteveRichards says: ‘Viewers and readers wantto know why politicians act in the waythey do. There is a hunger for moreexplanation from newspapers andtelevision. That is why in political columnsmy main aim is to try to make sense ofwhat is happening. Similarly in interviewsI want to get politicians to explain their

motives rather than to “catch them out”. By being empathic you get morenews stories.’

Steve Richards’s contributions to politicaldebate across a number of media outletsare much respected. He is an incisivepolitical journalist and a perceptive andshrewd commentator. He writes clearlyand lucidly, and his columns in TheIndependent consistently offer probingand balanced analyses of events. Hiscommentary about prime ministerGordon Brown’s trials and tribulationsover the last year is a case in point: well-sourced and insightful, his columns havefocused on the substantive issues andidentified the key questions facing thecurrent Labour Government. A skilfulbroadcaster, he is first and foremost avery fine journalist.


Political Journalist of the Year

STEVE RICHARDS

THE JUDGES SAYGary Gibbon’s contributions to Channel 4News have been of consistently high quality.He had a tough act to follow in taking overfrom Elinor Goodman (a previous PoliticalStudies Association award winner), and hasmade his mark with major scoops on the Iraqwar; lucid and accurate coverage of theNorthern Irish peace process; and analysis ofthe troubles besetting the Labourgovernment. The senior journalists on thejury spoke extremely highly of Gary Gibbon’sdetermination to cover stories with depthand precision, and the academic jurorspraised his willingness and ability to presentmaterial in an intelligent and accessiblemanner to viewers.

Gary Gibbon was born in 1965 in Harrow,West London. He read Modern History atBalliol College, Oxford, before startingwork as a television researcher. He joinedthe BBC as a producer in 1989 andmoved to Channel 4 News a year later.He became one of the programme’spolitical correspondents in 1996 andsucceeded Elinor Goodman as its politicaleditor in 2005.

Gary Gibbon is a familiar face to viewersof Channel 4 News. He has covered fourgeneral elections and the full range ofdomestic and European political issues.He spent much of the late 1990sreporting on the Northern Ireland peaceprocess. Today, he is more likely to beseen reporting on breaking stories,especially key House of Commons votes,which often take place while Channel 4News is on the air.

Gary Gibbon reported incisively onBritain’s role in the Iraq war and theintelligence and legal background leadingup to it. In 2006 he shared the RoyalTelevision Society’s Home News Awardwith Channel 4 News’ Jon Snow for theprogramme’s scoop in obtaining andreporting the Attorney-General’s legaladvice on the legality of invading Iraq. He also did much to bring to the public’sattention the details of a secret pre-warmeeting between Tony Blair and GeorgeBush, at which the two men discussedways of luring Saddam Hussein into war,and Blair appeared to support Bush’sintention to go to war with or without a second UN resolution.

It is commenting on the major newsstories and questioning senior politiciansthat constitute the core of Gary Gibbon’s

work. He once asked Gordon Brown at a monthly press conference if ‘hand onheart’ the opinion polls were not thereason for his change of heart in callingan early election. The prime ministerreplied: ‘Of course.’ Yet his approach isnever confrontational with those heinterviews, and he is quick to point outthat ‘they, the politicians, are elected –we, the reporters, are not.’

Gary Gibbon is a fine political journalistand an outstanding broadcaster. Hisapproach to his work is simple. He useshis privileged position as a lobbycorrespondent to find out as much as he can about what is going on and thenpasses on his knowledge to viewers in an intelligent and accessible form. He has successfully maintained the highstandards set by Elinor Goodman, hispredecessor on Channel 4 News andsomething of a mentor. Indeed his workhas contributed much to theprogramme’s enduring reputation as ahigh-quality and serious news outlet.



Political Broadcaster of the Year

GARY GIBBON

THE JUDGES SAYPhilip Norton has become ‘our greatestliving expert on Parliament’. A plethora ofseminal academic works are testimony tohis expertise. Parliamentarians haveenjoyed the benefit of Philip Norton’sintellectual and practical contributionssince he was made Lord Norton of Louth.He has offered distinguished service asChairman of the House of LordsConstitution Committee, chaired anOpposition commission on parliamentaryprocedure, and has been a person ofinfluence and substance on all thingsparliamentary. Professor Norton’selevation to the Lords has not been at theexpense of his academic duties. Legions of Hull Politics students testify to hisextraordinary, selfless work in building a formidable department.

Philip Norton was born in 1951 in Louth,Lincolnshire. He obtained his BA fromSheffield University before studying for an MA in Political Science as a ThouronScholar at the University of Pennsylvania.He returned to Sheffield where hecompleted his PhD on ‘Intra-party dissent in the House of Commons: The ConservativeParty in Government 1970-74.’ He joinedthe Department of Politics at theUniversity of Hull in 1977 and waspromoted to a chair in 1986, making him,at the age of 35, the youngest professor ofpolitics in the country. He has beenDirector of the Centre for LegislativeStudies since 1992 and is presentlyDirector of Studies for the Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government. He is also a Vice-President of the PoliticalStudies Association.

Philip Norton is a prolific writer andinsightful commentator on British politicsand legislatures, especially the WestminsterParliament. He is the author or editor of 27 books, including The Constitution in Flux(1982), Back from Westminster (1993) (co-authored with David Wood), The BritishPolity (2000), which is now in its fourthedition, and Parliament in British Politics(2005). He has also published over 130articles in scholarly journals. He is currentlyeditor of The Journal of Legislative Studies.

Philip Norton’s expertise on Parliament wasrecognised in 1998 when he was elevatedto the peerage as the Lord Norton ofLouth. He chaired the Conservative Party’sCommission to Strengthen Parliament,which reported in 2000. He served asChairman of the influential House of LordsSelect Committee on the Constitutionfrom 2001 to 2004 and was described byhis successor as a ‘hands-on-keyboard

chairman’ for personally drafting its reports.During his chairmanship, the Committeepublished 33 reports and undertook majorinquiries into devolution, the regulatorystate and the legislative process. TheCommittee’s 2004 report on Parliamentand the Legislative Process has sinceprovided something of a template forchange, especially in respect of post-legislative scrutiny. In 2008 theGovernment accepted the case forgovernment departments to reviewlegislation 3-5 years after enactment andto submit the reviews to departmentalselect committees.

Philip Norton continues to combine active membership of the House of Lordswith academic work and teaching. He hasbeen described by The Sunday Times as ‘our foremost parliamentary academic’ and by the House Magazine, Westminster’sjournal, as ‘our greatest living expert onParliament.’ Generations of students havebenefited from his scholarship. Many others have benefited from his personalcommitment to making Parliament – and parliaments – matter.


Special Recognition Award

PROFESSOR THE LORD NORTON OF LOUTH

THE JUDGES SAYAnne Phillips is the most important figure in feminist political theory, evidenced by arange of important publications. She hasoffered cogent challenges to existingassumptions in respect of liberaldemocracy, sexual equality and culturalstatus. The quality of her academiccontributions has impacted upon debateswithin British political life and well beyond.Professor Phillips’ work has been recognisedas pioneering by a range of organisations,including the American Political ScienceAssociation and the British Academy, whilstscores of scholars of the future at the LSEtestify to the pleasure derived by theintellectual cut-and-thrust of debatestimulated by her work.

Anne Phillips was born in 1950 inLancaster. She read Philosophy and Politicsat the University of Bristol before studyingfor an MSc in the Politics of West Africa atthe School of Oriental and African Studies,London. She later completed a doctoralthesis, ‘The Makeshift Settlement: BritishPolicy in West Africa’, at City University,London. Her first academic appointmentwas at the City of London Polytechnic. Shewas appointed Professor of Politics atLondon Guildhall University in 1990 andjoined the LSE in 1999 as Professor ofGender Theory and Director of theSchool’s Gender Institute. Since 2004, shehas held a joint appointment between theGender Institute and GovernmentDepartment, as Professor of Political andGender Theory. She has served as a visitingscholar at the Australian NationalUniversity, the European UniversityInstitute and Queen’s University, Canada.

Anne Phillips’ research interests lieprincipally in feminist political theory. Shehas published widely on democracy,representation, equality, multiculturalism,and the politics of difference. Her bookEngendering Democracy was co-winner ofthe American Political ScienceAssociation’s Victoria Schuck Award forBest Book on Women and Politicspublished in 1991, and her other worksinclude Hidden Hands: Women andEconomic Policies (1983), The Enigma ofColonialism (1989), Democracy andDifference (1993), The Politics of Presence(1995), Which Equalities Matter? (1999)and Multiculturalism without Culture(2007). She also co-edited the OxfordHandbook of Political Theory (2006).

Although Anne Phillips is primarily anormative theorist, her work is at the

contextual end of contemporary politicalphilosophy, engaging with public policyand legal judgments, and drawing on socialas well as political theory. Her work on thepolitical representation of gender,ethnicity, and race – for which she coinedthe phrase ‘the politics of presence’ – hasinformed much subsequent discussion ofgender quotas in politics, and has beenused in both theoretical and empiricalinvestigations. More recently, she hasworked on tensions between culturaldiversity and gender equality, includingtwo Nuffield Foundation funded researchprojects on the way cultural and ethnicdiversity is recognised in public policy andlegal judgements, and the relationshipbetween women’s rights and the currentbacklash against multiculturalism.

Anne Phillips is best known for her work at the forefront of feminist political theory, and her academic contributions arehighly respected. She was elected a Fellowof the British Academy in 2003 and hasbeen honoured by a range of otheroverseas organisations. Her stimulatingwork will continue to challenge widely-held assumptions and provoke livelyintellectual debate.



Special Recognition Award

PROFESSOR ANNE PHILLIPS FBA

THE JUDGES SAYThe PSA judging panel noted that Utility & Democracy is in a class by itself,demonstrating a complete command of thesubject, and bringing twenty years of carefulresearch to vivid life. Schofield brilliantlyunpacks the development of Bentham’sthought across a range of topics, from hisfamous principle of utility to his views onconstitutional and parliamentary reform, ina true tour de force. Schofield’s Utility &Democracy will undoubtedly be the leadingwork on the subject for some years to come.

Professor Iain McLean (Chair)University of Oxford Dr Thom Brooks Newcastle UniversityDr Helen ThompsonUniversity of Cambridge

Philip Schofield was born in 1958 inPreston. He read History at the Universityof Manchester before moving toUniversity College London where hecompleted his doctoral thesis on ‘English conservative thought and opinionin response to the French Revolution,1789-1796’. His first academicappointment was as Research Assistant tothe Bentham Project, based at UCL,where he has also taught the history ofEnglish law and jurisprudence for anumber of years. In 2001 he wasappointed Director of the BenthamProject and simultaneously promoted to apersonal Chair.

The Bentham Project started in 1959with the aim of producing a newauthoritative edition of Jeremy Bentham’sworks and correspondence. The edition,when completed, is expected to compriseabout seventy volumes. Philip Schofieldwas appointed Joint General Editor of TheCollected Works of Jeremy Bentham in1995 and has been sole General Editorsince 2003. He has been responsible,either as sole or principal editor, for sixvolumes in the new edition. He has alsopublished numerous articles and bookchapters relating to Bentham.

Philip Schofield’s monograph Utility andDemocracy: The Political Thought ofJeremy Bentham was published in 2006.Drawing on the author’s extensiveknowledge of unpublished manuscriptsand original printed texts, as well as thenew edition of The Collected Works, thebook explores the intimate relationshipbetween Bentham’s political thought andhis legal and religious thought. Schofieldexamines the factors which led Benthamto produce the first major utilitarian

defence of democracy and charts hisgradual and complex ‘conversion’ topolitical radicalism. The book explainsvividly how Bentham came to appreciatethat rulers were motivated primarily bytheir own selfish or ‘sinister’ interest,rather than the interest of thecommunity. Bentham’s solution lay, ofcourse, in the establishment ofrepresentative democracy andtransparent government, which wouldenable the people to hold their rulersaccountable. His radicalism also led himto advocate the abolition of both themonarchy and House of Lords, theintroduction of a codified system of lawin place of the Common Law, and the‘euthanasia’ of the Church of England.

For many people, Bentham is perhapsbest known as ‘a man in a box.’ As thepre-eminent scholar of Bentham’s work,Philip Schofield has done much to unpack both the man and his ideas. Utility and Democracy is the firstcomprehensive history of JeremyBentham’s political philosophy. It isrequired reading for anyone interested in Bentham, utilitarianism or, indeed,British political thought.


W J M Mackenzie Book Prize 2006

PROFESSOR PHILIP SCHOFIELD

UTILITY & DEMOCRACY: THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF JEREMY BENTHAM

THE JUDGES SAYHay has produced a small book thatexamines a big issue—the existence andorigins of political disenchantment. Throughhis adoption of an unapologeticallyunconventional approach, Hay challengesthe vast expanse of established literature onpolitical apathy and declining levels ofpublic trust in politicians and politicalinstitutions. In its place he offers adistinctive account of the origins of politicaldisengagement that focuses on evolvingprocesses and forms of depoliticisation, themotives of politicians, and the role of ideasin shaping and influencing views about thecapacity of the state. Hay’s frameworkposes new questions about the nature andboundaries of ‘the political’. It is a powerful,ambitious, and provocative text that isdestined to become a classic book in thefield of political science.

Professor Philip Schofield (Chair)University College LondonDr Matthew FlindersUniversity of SheffieldProfessor Shirin Rai University of Warwick

Colin Hay was born in 1968 inBirmingham. He read Social and PoliticalScience at Clare College, Cambridge,before moving to Lancaster University,where he completed his PhD thesis on‘Re-stating crisis: strategic moments in thestructural transformation of the State inpost-war Britain.’ His first academicappointment was also Lancaster. He thenmoved to the University of Birminghamin 1995 and was appointed Professor ofPolitical Analysis in 2002. He was Head ofDepartment between 2003 and 2006. In2007, he joined Sheffield University,where he is a Co-Director of its PoliticalEconomy Research Centre. Professor Hayhas also held visiting posts at HarvardUniversity, the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology and the University ofManchester. He is a founding co-editor ofthe journals Comparative European Politicsand British Politics and an editor of NewPolitical Economy.

Colin Hay’s research interests are diverse.He is the author of several books,including Re-Stating Social and PoliticalChange (1996), which was awarded theBritish Sociological Association’s PhilipAbrams Memorial Prize, The PoliticalEconomy of New Labour: Labouring UnderFalse Pretences? (1999) and PoliticalAnalysis (2002). He also co-authoredPostwar British Politics in Perspective(1999) and has edited or co-editedTheorizing Modernity (1999), DemystifyingGlobalization (2000), British Politics Today(2002), Developments in British Politics 8(2006), The State: Theories and Issues(2006), European Politics (2007), the SageEncyclopedia of Governance (2007) and

the Oxford Handbook of British Politics(forthcoming).

Colin Hay’s book Why We Hate Politicswas published in 2007. It explores andseeks to explain the contemporarypolitical disaffection and disengagementthat afflict a broad range of establisheddemocracies. The book adopts aninnovative and provocative approach andchallenges many existing orthodoxies.Rather than blaming citizens orpoliticians, it emphasises how changingideas about the capacity of the statehave fuelled a prevailing mood of politicalapathy and declining levels of trust inpolitical institutions. To understandcontemporary political disenchantment,we must look to the impact of variousforms of depoliticisation, such asprivatisation, the contracting-out ofpublic services and the prevailing dogmasof neoliberalism, which, collectively,‘diminish and denude the realm of formalpublic political deliberation.’ ProfessorHay’s response is to defend a broader,more confident and less apologeticconception of politics. In essence, he callsfor the re-politicisation of politics.

Why We Hate Politics is required readingfor anyone seeking to understand thecurrent disconnect between politiciansand people. Its appeal for more effectiveanalyses of the complex relationshipsbetween political ideas and assumptionsand political practices and processes isalso sure to stimulate further research.



W J M Mackenzie Book Prize 2007

PROFESSOR COLIN HAY

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