Post-Political Poisons? Evaluating the ‘Toxic’ Dimensions of Tony Blair's Leadership

McAnulla, Stuart

doi:10.1080/00344893.2011.596425

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“… 49 On Labour’s vulnerability once dependent on Blair’s charisma, and on the drop in party membership and support suffered once his leadership became ‘toxic’ after the Iraq war, see McAnulla (2011). …”

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The Party in Time

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2015

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Trends of falling membership and support spell a time of crisis for political parties, possibly of transformation. Dilemmas of principle arise: should partisans revise their normative commitments in whatever way garners new supporters, or would that be to sell their party’s soul? This article investigates this as a problem of intergenerational obligation, examining what consideration (if any) partisans owe their party’s past and future. It seeks to show the limits of conceiving partisanship as a ‘presentist’ activity that is legitimately governed exclusively by the concerns of the present generation, and argues that it must include some notion of showing loyalty to the actions of predecessors and advancing the prospects of those to come. Two corresponding norms of ethical partisanship – fidelity and sustainability – are outlined and discussed. The article’s goal is to refine our concept of what a party is, and in so doing contribute to a broader ethics of activism.

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“…This trend is reflected in a growing body of literature on toxic/bad/destructive leadership indicating that political scientists are beginning to appropriate tools and concepts previously confined to the business sphere. Thus McAnulla's (2011) analysis of Blair's leadership draws the "toxic triangle" model of destructive leadership from management studies experts Padilla, Hogan and Kaiser (2007), while Tim Heppell (2011) borrows from business academic Lipman-Blumen (2004) to test the applicability of the concept of "toxicity" to the study of five controversial political leaders, including Tony Blair. This coincides with the recent rise of critical approaches to leadership which emphasize destructive leaders' behaviour, underlining the destructive dimension of charismatic leadership (Collinson, 2012;Kellerman, 2012).…”

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The (Unintended) Consequences of New Labour: Party Leadership vs Party Management in the British Labour Party

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2016

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This article draws from the fields of political science and of organisational studies to explore the short-term and longterm impact of New Labour's party management on the quality of party processes as well as on party reputation. It is based on the long-term ethnographic participant observation of the Labour Party at local and regional levels, as well as national events such as annual conferences. The article starts by identifying the distinctive features of New Labour's party management. It then examines the "unintended consequences" of this brand of party management, showing this model to be mainly self-defeating. The final section provides a general assessment of the impact of New Labour's party management from the perspective of organisational learning and innovation. Overall the article stresses the long-term poisonous effects of this brand of leadership and management on political organisations and on politics in general.

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The Fall of the Brown Government, 2010

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2013

How Labour Governments Fall

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Post-Political Poisons? Evaluating the ‘Toxic’ Dimensions of Tony Blair's Leadership

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

The Party in Time

The Party in Time

The (Unintended) Consequences of New Labour: Party Leadership vs Party Management in the British Labour Party

The Fall of the Brown Government, 2010

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