Disjunctive Prime Ministerial Leadership in British Politics

Christopher Byrne is Lecturer in Politics in the School of Social Sciences at Leeds Beckett University, UK. His work has been published in several edited collections and in the journals British Politics, Parliamentary Affairs, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, and Policy & Politics. He is also the author of Neoliberalisms in British Politics (2018).Nick Randall is Senior Lecturer in British Politics at Newcastle University, UK. His work has been published in several edited collections and in journals including British Politics, Political Quarterly, and Parliamentary Affairs. Kevin Theakston is Professor of British Government in the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published ten books including Winston Churchill and the British Constitution (2004), After Number Ten: Former Prime Ministers in British Politics (2010) and William Armstrongand British Policy Making (2018).

• Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Disjunctive Leadership in Interwar Britain: Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, and Neville Chamberlain.- Chapter 3 The collapse of Keynesian Welfarism 1970-79: Heath, Wilson, Callaghan.- Chapter 4 The collapse of the neoliberal consensus 2008-19: Brown, Cameron, May.- Chapter 5 Conclusion: Evaluating Disjunctive Prime Ministerial Leadership.