Select Committees in the House of Commons and the Media

Kubala, Marek

doi:10.1093/pa/gsr014

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“…High‐profile recent sessions have included those with bankers on the financial crisis, major corporations on tax avoidance, and the Murdochs on the News International phone hacking scandal. Media coverage of select committees has substantially increased (Kubala ) and may now even exceed that of the Commons chamber.…”

Section: Select Committeesmentioning

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The Policy Power of the Westminster Parliament: The “Parliamentary State” and the Empirical Evidence

Russell

Cowley

2015

Governance

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Section: Select Committeesmentioning

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The Policy Power of the Westminster Parliament: The “Parliamentary State” and the Empirical Evidence

Russell

Cowley

2015

Governance

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“…They do not, for example, review legislation prior to adoption. Despite their limitations, select committees became more important after reforms in 1979, 1 and have further risen in prominence since the late 1980s (Hindmoor, Larkin, and Kennon 2009; Kubala 2011; Norton 1998; Russell 2011). Their increased stature can be attributed in part to the committee members' ability to determine their own subjects for inquiry.…”

Section: The Select Committee Systemmentioning

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Gender and Select Committee Elections in the British House of Commons

O’Brien

2012

Pol & Gen

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“…Changes to select committee membership rules in 2010 have contributed to their higher public profile than ever before (Kelso, 2016; White, 2015). Challenge through scrutiny, with increasing levels of media coverage (Kubala, 2011), is a visible sign of the leadership initiative being taken by select committee chairs to expose ‘government activities to the oxygen of publicity’ (Kelso, 2009: 230). Select committees and their chairs are therefore, arguably, exercising leadership at the forefront of parliamentary challenge.…”

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Leading through agonistic conflict: Contested sense-making in national political arenas

Hartley

Stansfield

2020

Leadership

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This article examines the social processes of political leadership in situations of contest and conflict, taking place within a key and long-established democratic institution, the UK Parliament. The empirical focus is on leadership in House of Commons select committees, which are concerned with holding the government to account. Headlines and media scrutiny, combined with internal challenge from the cross-party mix of politicians on the committees and a range of external stakeholders, create leadership challenges for committee chairs. The study is of two committee inquiries led by the same committee chair, which occurred concurrently and in real time, thereby providing a rare comparative study of leadership through the same leader at the same time but with different leadership challenges. Rather than shying away from conflict, as does much of the leadership literature, this research highlights how leaders who actively engage in challenge and conflict can build a degree of shared purpose among diverse groups of stakeholders. It examines and combines, in theory elaboration, two theories relevant to understanding these leadership processes: agonistic pluralism with its role in creating respectful conflictual consensus, and the theory of sense-making and sense-giving. The two cases (the two inquiries) had different trajectories and reveal how the chair recognised and dealt with conflict to achieve sense-making outcomes across divergent interests and across political parties. There are implications not only for understanding political leadership but also more widely for leadership where there are diverse and sometimes conflicting interests.

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Select Committees in the House of Commons and the Media

Cited by 18 publications

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The Policy Power of the Westminster Parliament: The “Parliamentary State” and the Empirical Evidence

The Policy Power of the Westminster Parliament: The “Parliamentary State” and the Empirical Evidence

Gender and Select Committee Elections in the British House of Commons

Leading through agonistic conflict: Contested sense-making in national political arenas

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