Books

Democracy and Pluralism: The Political Thought  of William E. Connolly, (ed.), Routledge, 2009. Making Sense of New Labour, London, Lawrence and Wishart, 2003.

Robert Eccleshall, Alan Finlayson, Vincent Geoghegan, Michael Kenny, Moya Lloyd, Iain MacKenzie, Rick Wilford., Political Ideologies: An Introduction (3rd. edn.), London, Routledge, 2003. 

Contemporary Political Thought: A Reader and Guide, (ed.), Edinburgh University Press/New York University Press, 2003.Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Valentine (eds.) Politics and Poststructuralism, Edinburgh University Press, 2002.

Fidelma Ashe, Alan Finlayson, Moya Lloyd, Iain Mackenzie, James Martin and Shane O’Neill, Contemporary Social and Political Theory: An Introduction, Open University Press, 1998.

Articles

‘Fictions of Sovereignty: Shakespeare, Theatre and the Representation of Rule’ (with Elizabeth Frazer), Parliamentary Affairs, 2010 (doi: 10.1093/pa/gsq035). 

‘Financialisation, Financial Literacy and Asset-Based Welfare’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 11, 3, 2009, pp. 400-421.

‘Planning People: The Ideology and Rationality of New Labour’, Planning Practice and Research, 24, 1, pp. 11-23, 2009.

‘Ann Coulter and the Problem of Pluralism: From Values to Politics’ (with Samuel A. Chambers), Borderlands, Vol. 7, 1, 2008. 

‘ “It Ain’t What You Say…”: British Political Studies and the Analysis of Speech and Rhetoric’ (J. Martin), British Politics, 3, 2008, pp. 445-464. 

‘Characterising New Labour: The Case of the Child Trust Fund’, Public Administration, Vol. 86, 1, 2008, pp. 95-110.  

‘From Beliefs to Arguments: Interpretive Methodology and Rhetorical Political Analysis’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol. 9, 4, 2007, pp. 545-563. 

‘Making Sense of David Cameron’, Public Policy Research, 14, 1, March-May, 2007, pp. 3-10. 

‘“What’s the Problem?” Rhetoric and Problem-Setting in Northern Ireland’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 9, 4, 2006, pp. 541-548. 

‘Political Science, Political Ideas and Rhetoric’, Economy and Society, Vol. 33, No. 4, 2004, pp. 528-549. 

‘Interpretive Methodology and Political Science: A Roundtable’ with Keith Dowding, Alan Finlayson, Colin Hay, Rod Rhodes, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 6, 2, 2004, pp. 129-64. 

‘Squaring the Circle: New Labour and the New Ignorance Economy, Mediactive, Vol. 1, 1, 2003, pp.25-36.

‘Elements of the Blairite Style of Leadership’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 55(3), 2002, pp. 586-599.  

‘Philo and Miller’s Metaphysical Media Studies’, Media, Culture and Society, Vol. 23, 5, 2001, pp. 679-687.

‘The Problem of the Political Interview’, Political Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 3, 2001, pp. 335-345.

‘Culture, Politics and Cultural Politics in Northern Ireland’, New Formations, 43, 2001, pp. 87-102 

‘Advertising for Peace: The Northern Ireland Office Advertising Campaign 1988-1996’ (with Eamonn Hughes), Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 20, 3, 2000, pp. 397-412. 

‘Third Way Theory’, Political Quarterly, 70, 3, 1999, pp. 271-279. 

‘Loyalist Political Identity After the Peace’ Capital and Class, 69, (Special Issue: Northern Ireland Between Peace and War), 1999, pp. 47-75.

‘Re-Conceptualising the Political in Northern Ireland’ Irish Political Studies, Vol. 13, 1998, pp. 115-122.

‘Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Theories of Nationalism’, Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 4, No.2, 1998, pp. 145-162.

‘Ideology Discourse and Nationalism’, Journal of Political Ideologies, Vol. 3(1), 1998, pp. 99-118.

‘Political Studies and Cultural Studies’ (with J. Martin), Politics, 1997, pp. 183-189

‘The Problem of Culture in Northern Ireland: A Critique of the Cultural Traditions Group of the Community Relations Council’, Irish Review, 20, Winter/Spring 1997, pp. 76-88.

‘The Broadcast Media and the General Election in Northern Ireland’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 17, No.4, 1997, pp. 477-480.

‘Nationalism as Ideological Interpellation: The case of Ulster Loyalism’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 19, No. 1, Jan. 1996, pp. 88-112. 

Chapters in Books

‘Imagined Communities’, in Kate Nash and Alan Scott (eds.) Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, Oxford: Blackwell (revised and updated second edition), 2011. 

‘The Broken Society versus the Social Recession’, in Richard Grayson and Jonathan Rutherford (eds.), After the Crash: Reinventing the Left in Britain, London, Lawrence and Wishart, 2009, pp. 27-37 

‘Assessing Blair's Legacy’ and ‘Response to Kavanagh and Tonge’ in Simon Griffiths and Kevin Hickson (eds.), British Party Politics and Ideology after New Labour, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2009, pp. 11-17 & 30-31. 

‘Becoming Plural: The Political Thought of William E. Connolly’, in  Finlayson, Alan (ed.) Democracy and Pluralism: The Political Thought  of William E. Connolly, London, Routledge, 2009, pp.  1-19.

’Think Tradition’, in Peter Harrington and Beatrice Karol Burks (eds.) What Next for Labour? Ideas for the progressive left, a collection of essays, London, Demos 2009, pp. 33-38.

‘Rhetorical Radical Democracy’ in Adrian Little and Moya Lloyd (eds.) The Politics of Radical Democracy, Edinburgh University Press, 2008, pp. 13-32. 

‘Politics as an Argument about the Common Good’, in Daniel Leighton and Stuart White (eds.) Building a Citizen Society, London, Lawrence and Wishart, 2008, pp. 157-165

co-author with James Martin ‘Local government and the loss of sovereignty’, Localopolis: Governance and citizenship in the 21st century, Solace (Society of Local Authority Chief Executives) Foundation Imprint, October, 2006, pp. 29-31. 

‘Making Labour Safe: Globalisation and the Aftermath of the Social Democratic Retreat’ in  Gerry Hassan (ed.) After Blair: Politics after the New Labour decade, London, Lawrence and Wishart, 2006 pp. 37-47.

‘Poststructuralism’ (with J. Martin) in Colin Hay, Michael Lister and David Marsh (eds.) The State: Theories and Issues, London, Palgrave, 2006, pp. 155-171.

‘Reading Titanic Politically’ (with Richard Taylor), in Tim Bergfelder and Sarah Street (eds.), Titanic: Myth, Memory and Modernity, I.B. Taurus, 2004.

‘General Introduction’ and ‘Section Introductions’ in Contemporary Political Thought: A Reader and Guide, Edinburgh University Press, 2003, pp. 1-25; 29-33; 107-112; 241-244; 479-483.

‘Glossary’ in Contemporary Political Thought: A Reader and Guide, Edinburgh University Press, 2003, pp. 614-668.

‘Conservatism’, in Alan Finlayson (ed.), Contemporary Political Thought: A Reader and Guide, Edinburgh University Press, 2003, pp. 154-197.

‘Nationalism’ in R.R. Ecclehsall et.al., Political Ideologies: An Introduction (3rd. edn.), London, Routledge, 2003, pp. 97-117.  

‘New Labour: The Culture of Government and the Government of Culture’ in Jeremy Gilbert, and Timothy Bewes (eds.), Cultural Capitalism: Politics after New Labour, London, Lawrence and Wishart, 2002, pp. 177-202.

‘On the Subject of New Labour’, in Wendy Wheeler (ed.), The Political Subject: Essays on the Self from Art, Politics and Science, London, Lawrence and Wishart, 2002, pp. 137-159.

‘Introduction’, co-authored with Jeremy Valentine for Politics and Post-Structuralism, Edinburgh University Press, 2002, pp. 1-20. 

‘The Horizon of Community’ in Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Valentine, Politics and Post-Structuralism, Edinburgh University Press, 2002, pp. 161-175.

‘Imagined Communities’, in Kate Nash and Alan Scott (eds.) Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, pp. 281-290.

‘Culture’ in Ashe, Finlayson, Lloyd, Mackenzie, Martin, O’Neill, Contemporary Social and Political Theory: An Introduction, Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1999, pp. 131-154.

‘Language’ in Ashe, Finlayson, Lloyd, Mackenzie, Martin, O’Neill, Contemporary Social and Political Theory: An Introduction, Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1999, pp. 47-68.

‘The Discourse of Nation and the Discourse of Sexuality’ in Terrell Carver and Veronique Mottier (eds.) , The Politics of Sexuality, London: Routledge, 1998, pp. 91-101.

‘Discourse and Contemporary Loyalist Identity’ in Peter Shirlow (ed.) Who are the People? Unionism Protestantism and Loyalism in the Late Twentieth Century, London: Pluto Press, 1997, pp. 72-94.

‘Popular Culture’ (Units 6-10) Sociology 6: Language, Culture and Society, Oscail, The National Distance Education Council, Dublin City University, 1997.

Non-Refereed Journal Articles

‘From Economic Revolution to Social Revolution: An Interview with Oliver Letwin’, Soundings, 40, pp. 112-122. 

‘For the Sake of Argument: re-imagining political communication’, Soundings, 2006.  34-43. 

‘Forward not Back: The Labour Party Manifesto, 2005’ Renewal, 13, 3, 2005. 

‘How to make the argument for Europe’, Renewal, 13, 1, pp. 76-84, 2005

‘The Meaning of Modernisation’, Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 23, 2003, pp. 62-83. 

‘New Labour and the Third Way: Re-Visioning the Economic’, Renewal, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1999, pp. 42-51.

‘Tony Blair and the Jargon of Modernisation’, Soundings, 10, Autumn 1998 pp. 11-27.

Research projects.  

Title: How the Leader Speaks: Development and Change in British Political Speech and Argumentation  

Funder: The Leverhulme Trust 

Description: The aims of this project are: to provide an accessible resource for all those interested in the history, theory and practice of political speech and rhetoric in the United Kingdom; to encourage, support and promote research into British political rhetoric, and to contribute to the better understanding, appreciation and practice of political argument; to undertake research into British political rhetoric and argumentation, and demonstrate the importance of such research for the wider study of British Politics. To meet this aims we have compiled on online archive of British political speeches and are conducting a study into the ways in which these speeches have changed over time. That involves looking at the changing organization of rhetoric (where it takes place, who gets to be involved and so on) and also the changing forms of rhetorical argument (figures of speech, appeals and so forth). 

Website: www.britishpoliticalspeech.org

Publications Related to the Project: 

These include works that stemmed directly from the project but also work by the lead investigators that led up to it. 

Judi Atkins, Justifying New Labour Policy, Palgrave (forthcoming).

Judi Atkins, ‘Moral Argument and the Justification of Policy: New Labour’s Case for Welfare Reform,’ British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 12, 3, 2010, pp. 408-424. 

Judi Atkins, ‘How Virtue Theoretic Arguments may be used in the Justification of Policy', Politics, Vol. 28(3), 2008, pp. 129-137.

Alan Finlayson and James Martin, ‘ “It Ain’t What You Say…”: British Political Studies and the Analysis of Speech and Rhetoric’, British Politics, Vol. 3, 2008, pp. 445-464.

Alan Finlayson, ‘Rhetorical Radical Democracy’ in Adrian Little and Moya Lloyd (eds.) The Politics of Radical Democracy, Edinburgh University Press, 2008, pp. 13-32.

Alan Finlayson, ‘Politics as an Argument about the Common Good’, in Daniel Leighton and Stuart White (eds.) Building a Citizen Society, London, Lawrence and Wishart, 2008, pp. 157-165.

Alan Finlayson, ‘From Beliefs to Arguments: Interpretive Methodology and Rhetorical Political Analysis’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol. 9(4), 2007, pp. 545-563.

Alan Finlayson, ‘For the Sake of Argument: re-imagining political communication’, Soundings, 2006, pp. 34-43.

Alan Finlayson, ‘“What’s the Problem?” Rhetoric and Problem-Setting in Northern Ireland’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 9(4), 2006, pp. 541-548.

Alan Finlayson, ‘Political Science, Political Ideas and Rhetoric’, Economy and Society, Vol. 33(4), 2004, pp. 528-549.

Alan Finlayson, ‘Elements of the Blairite Style of Leadership’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 55(3), 2002, pp. 586-599.

Alan Finlayson, ‘The Problem of the Political Interview’, Political Quarterly, Vol. 72(3), 2001, pp. 335-345.

Presentations associated with the project include: 

‘Cultures of Eloquence: Ritual, Rhetoric and the Evaluation of Parliamentary Oratory’,  at Disruptive Democracy: Analyzing Legislative Protest in Contemporary Legislatures’, GCRP Conference, University of Warwick 19th November, 2010. 

 ‘Politicians, Rhetoric and Persuasion: Lessons from the Swansea University Leaders’ Speech Archive’, Swansea University Welsh Assembly Briefing, Welsh Assembly. Cardiff, 22nd June, 2010.

‘As Shakespeare so Memorably Said’: The Rhetoric of Quotation in British Political Speech’ (with J. Atkins), Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Edinburgh, March 31st, 2010. 

'Rhetoric, Political Theory and the Analysis of Political Ideologies' , Public Lecture, as part of a POLITU Doctoral Course: Rhetoric of Governments, Parliaments and Movements’ University of Jyväskylä , 25th-28th August (video available here: http://moniviestin.jyu.fi/ohjelmat/ytk/en/rhetoric/visiting-lecture-by-professor-alan-finlayson), 2009.

‘Heresthetic or Rhetoric? Concepts of Political Strategy in Anglophone and Continental Political Thought’, at ‘Crossing the Divide between Anglophone and Continental Political Thought’, A Joint Symposium of the Queen Mary Centre for the History of Political Thought and the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Political Thought and Conceptual Change, Finnish Institute, London, 27th-28th May, 2009.

‘The invention of the British Labour Party leader’s speech to conference’, (with Judi Atkins), Politics and Governance Research Seminars, Swansea University, 21st May, 2009.  

‘Persuasion: Rhetoric and Politics in Contemporary Democracy’ Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy, Research Seminar Roundtable,  5th May, 2009.

‘From Riker to rhetoric: heresthetic and political analysis re-visited’, Politics and Governance Research Seminars, Swansea University, 30th April, 2009.

'Analysing Dimensional Transformations of Political Space’, ESRC Networks for Methodological Innovation, Discourse Analysis Network, University of Essex, 23rd-24th April, 2009. 

'The Politics of Performance: Rhetoric and Political Speech', Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament, 1st Annual Conference, University of Warwick, 23rd – 24th  October, 2008.

'Countering Anne Coulter: Rhetoric and the Politics of Pluralism’, Ninth Essex Conference in Critical Political Theory: Capitalism, Faith, Nature, 12th - 13th  June, 2008.

Rhetoric and political analysis Mini Course: ‘Rhetoric and the Analysis of Political Ideologies’; 'Philosophy, Rhetoric and Metaphor’, ‘Analysing a Political Speech', Centre for Theoretical Studies, University of Essex, 5th - 6th March, 2008.

‘Rhetoric and the analysis of political ideologies', Centre for Political Ideologies, Oxford University, 19th Feb., 2008.

 

Conference information.  We have some information on the website(s) about conferences which have been organised in the disciplines, but still a lot are not included.  Could you please provide any information about those which are currently not on the list.  Our current list is on: http://www.swansea.ac.uk/politics/Research/Conferences/. 

 

APRIL 2009 

C-SCAP public lecture: Bonnie Honig, Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University Illinois speaking about ‘Antigone's laments, Creon's grief: Mourning, Membership and the Politics of Exception’. 

C-SCAP Public Lecture: Dr Thomas Meyer, Research Fellow at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, ‘Leo Strauss and Jewish Intellectual life in Weimar Germany’. 

MAY 2009

‘Persuasion: Rhetoric and Politics in Contemporary Democracy’ Goldsmiths College, University of London (joint event with the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy)

‘Raymond Williams and the Politics of Culture’, with Dai Smith (CREW, Swansea), Sean Matthews (D.H. Lawrence Research Centre, School of English Studies, University of Nottingham; Mike Kenny (Department of Politics, Sheffield University and Head of Social Policy, Institute of Public Policy Research); Jeremy Gilbert (Centre for Cultural Studies Research, University of East London) and Nick Couldry (Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London; Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy)

JUNE 2009

C-SCAP co-sponsored and organized the conference “Shaping Europe in a Globalized World? Protest Movements and the Rise of a Transnational Civil Society”  at the University of Zurich and also in partnership with University of Halle and the University of Heidelberg.

C-SCAP and the Department co-sponsored a conference on “Philosophy and Democracy; Democracy and Political Education”, the 5th Internal course in philosophy held at the Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik Croatia 30 August - 4 September. Mark Evans gave a lecture on “Education and the Ethics of Democratic Character”. This event represented a continuation of the collaboration with C-SCAP partners in Croatia and Slovenia.

APRIL 2010

‘Political Theatre and Theatrical Politics’, THE DRAMAS OF POLITICS: Publics, Performances, Participation and Persuasion, organized by The Centre for the Study of Culture and Politics (Swansea University) in association with The Callaghan Centre for the study of Conflict, Power and Empire (Swansea University) and National Theatre Wales, The Old Library, Swansea, April 23rd. 

JULY 12th-13th 2010 Theorising Wales (co-organised by PCS/C-SCAP, GENCAS and CREW) 

Wales is a multiplicity of ideas, visions and imaginings from within and without. Different forms of politics appeal to and promise different versions of Wales . Literature (in both languages) writes and rewrites dozens more. Histories contest them. And the varieties of everyday lives of people in Wales , their labour, leisure, dreams and anxieties always exceed the capacity of any scholar, writer or government minister to catch and contain them. A range of theoretical approaches which address issues of gender, language, race, sexuality, (post)colonialism and (post)nationalism have begun to enrich and contest our concepts of nation and culture

This conference seeks to further the theorisation of Wales and Welsh cultural studies and cultural politics and to encourage reflection and self-reflexivity in the theories we adopt and adapt.  

Speakers include: Simon Brooks  (Cardiff University ) 'Liberal political theory and the failure of Welsh culture in the 19th century'¿ Glenn Jordan  (University of Glamorgan ) 'Mothers and Daughters: Pictures of a Multi-Ethnic Wales'¿Gerardine Meaney  (University College Dublin ) 'Gender, Ireland and Cultural Change'¿Chris Weedon  ( Cardiff University ) 'The Cultural Politics of Gender and Difference in Contemporary Wales'¿Daniel Williams  ( Swansea University) 'Creu’r Diwylliant Mewnol: Iaith a Hil yn Llên Saesn

November 1st, 2010: Representing the Event: Power and Newness in Modernity, Swansea University, (co-organised by C-SCAP and the School of Business and Economics).  

This conference explores how ideas of the event are portrayed within mass culture for better understanding its function in structuring modern identity construction and social relations. Themes include: 

• Re-thinking the theoretical relationship between order and event, specifically as related to themes of identity and ideology.

• Examining the event in terms of popular representation of “crisis” and the “new”

• Assessing the role of the “event” symbolically for shaping organisational practices and behaviour

• Exploring themes of pluralism as it relates to the possibility and representation of the event

• Empirically assessing how idea of the event is deployed tactically within strategies of organisational control and social regulation.

• Understanding how public presentations of crisis and event are shaping modern narratives of progress and processes of ideological domination.

• Relating these discussions to concrete issues such as the global financial downturn, climate change, and contemporary democratic politics.

 

May 18th-19th - The Future of Landscape and the Moving Image: Politics, Histories, Economies. 

This event – a co-production of C-SCAP, Centre for Urban Theory SOTEAS and The Taliesin Arts Theatre will feature a screening of Patrick Keiller’s new film ‘Robinson in Ruins’ followed by a symposium with Keiller, Doreen Massey, Patrick Wright and Matthew Flintham. 

• Democracy and Pluralism: The Political Thought  of William E. Connolly, (ed.), Routledge, 2009. Making Sense of New Labour, London, Lawrence and Wishart, 2003.
• Robert Eccleshall, Alan Finlayson, Vincent Geoghegan, Michael Kenny, Moya Lloyd, Iain MacKenzie, Rick Wilford., Political Ideologies: An Introduction (3rd. edn.), London, Routledge, 2003. 
• Contemporary Political Thought: A Reader and Guide, (ed.), Edinburgh University Press/New York University Press, 2003.Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Valentine (eds.) Politics and Poststructuralism, Edinburgh University Press, 2002.
• Fidelma Ashe, Alan Finlayson, Moya Lloyd, Iain Mackenzie, James Martin and Shane O’Neill, Contemporary Social and Political Theory: An Introduction, Open University Press, 1998.

• ‘Fictions of Sovereignty: Shakespeare, Theatre and the Representation of Rule’ (with Elizabeth Frazer), Parliamentary Affairs, 2010 (doi: 10.1093/pa/gsq035). 
• ‘Financialisation, Financial Literacy and Asset-Based Welfare’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 11, 3, 2009, pp. 400-421.
• ‘Planning People: The Ideology and Rationality of New Labour’, Planning Practice and Research, 24, 1, pp. 11-23, 2009.
• ‘Ann Coulter and the Problem of Pluralism: From Values to Politics’ (with Samuel A. Chambers), Borderlands, Vol. 7, 1, 2008. 
• ‘ “It Ain’t What You Say…”: British Political Studies and the Analysis of Speech and Rhetoric’ (J. Martin), British Politics, 3, 2008, pp. 445-464. 
• ‘Characterising New Labour: The Case of the Child Trust Fund’, Public Administration, Vol. 86, 1, 2008, pp. 95-110.  
• ‘From Beliefs to Arguments: Interpretive Methodology and Rhetorical Political Analysis’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol. 9, 4, 2007, pp. 545-563. 
• ‘Making Sense of David Cameron’, Public Policy Research, 14, 1, March-May, 2007, pp. 3-10. 
• ‘“What’s the Problem?” Rhetoric and Problem-Setting in Northern Ireland’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 9, 4, 2006, pp. 541-548. 
• ‘Political Science, Political Ideas and Rhetoric’, Economy and Society, Vol. 33, No. 4, 2004, pp. 528-549. 
• ‘Interpretive Methodology and Political Science: A Roundtable’ with Keith Dowding, Alan Finlayson, Colin Hay, Rod Rhodes, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 6, 2, 2004, pp. 129-64. 
• ‘Squaring the Circle: New Labour and the New Ignorance Economy, Mediactive, Vol. 1, 1, 2003, pp.25-36.
• ‘Elements of the Blairite Style of Leadership’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 55(3), 2002, pp. 586-599.  
• ‘Philo and Miller’s Metaphysical Media Studies’, Media, Culture and Society, Vol. 23, 5, 2001, pp. 679-687.
• ‘The Problem of the Political Interview’, Political Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 3, 2001, pp. 335-345.
• ‘Culture, Politics and Cultural Politics in Northern Ireland’, New Formations, 43, 2001, pp. 87-102 
• ‘Advertising for Peace: The Northern Ireland Office Advertising Campaign 1988-1996’ (with Eamonn Hughes), Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 20, 3, 2000, pp. 397-412. 
• ‘Third Way Theory’, Political Quarterly, 70, 3, 1999, pp. 271-279. 
• ‘Loyalist Political Identity After the Peace’ Capital and Class, 69, (Special Issue: Northern Ireland Between Peace and War), 1999, pp. 47-75.
• ‘Re-Conceptualising the Political in Northern Ireland’ Irish Political Studies, Vol. 13, 1998, pp. 115-122.
• ‘Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Theories of Nationalism’, Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 4, No.2, 1998, pp. 145-162.
• ‘Ideology Discourse and Nationalism’, Journal of Political Ideologies, Vol. 3(1), 1998, pp. 99-118.
• ‘Political Studies and Cultural Studies’ (with J. Martin), Politics, 1997, pp. 183-189
• ‘The Problem of Culture in Northern Ireland: A Critique of the Cultural Traditions Group of the Community Relations Council’, Irish Review, 20, Winter/Spring 1997, pp. 76-88.
• ‘The Broadcast Media and the General Election in Northern Ireland’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 17, No.4, 1997, pp. 477-480.
• ‘Nationalism as Ideological Interpellation: The case of Ulster Loyalism’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 19, No. 1, Jan. 1996, pp. 88-112. 

• ‘Imagined Communities’, in Kate Nash and Alan Scott (eds.) Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, Oxford: Blackwell (revised and updated second edition), 2011. 
• ‘The Broken Society versus the Social Recession’, in Richard Grayson and Jonathan Rutherford (eds.), After the Crash: Reinventing the Left in Britain, London, Lawrence and Wishart, 2009, pp. 27-37 
• ‘Assessing Blair's Legacy’ and ‘Response to Kavanagh and Tonge’ in Simon Griffiths and Kevin Hickson (eds.), British Party Politics and Ideology after New Labour, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2009, pp. 11-17 & 30-31. 
• ‘Becoming Plural: The Political Thought of William E. Connolly’, in  Finlayson, Alan (ed.) Democracy and Pluralism: The Political Thought  of William E. Connolly, London, Routledge, 2009, pp.  1-19.
• ’Think Tradition’, in Peter Harrington and Beatrice Karol Burks (eds.) What Next for Labour? Ideas for the progressive left, a collection of essays, London, Demos 2009, pp. 33-38.
• ‘Rhetorical Radical Democracy’ in Adrian Little and Moya Lloyd (eds.) The Politics of Radical Democracy, Edinburgh University Press, 2008, pp. 13-32. 
• ‘Politics as an Argument about the Common Good’, in Daniel Leighton and Stuart White (eds.) Building a Citizen Society, London, Lawrence and Wishart, 2008, pp. 157-165
• co-author with James Martin ‘Local government and the loss of sovereignty’, Localopolis: Governance and citizenship in the 21st century, Solace (Society of Local Authority Chief Executives) Foundation Imprint, October, 2006, pp. 29-31. 
• ‘Making Labour Safe: Globalisation and the Aftermath of the Social Democratic Retreat’ in  Gerry Hassan (ed.) After Blair: Politics after the New Labour decade, London, Lawrence and Wishart, 2006 pp. 37-47.
• ‘Poststructuralism’ (with J. Martin) in Colin Hay, Michael Lister and David Marsh (eds.) The State: Theories and Issues, London, Palgrave, 2006, pp. 155-171.
• ‘Reading Titanic Politically’ (with Richard Taylor), in Tim Bergfelder and Sarah Street (eds.), Titanic: Myth, Memory and Modernity, I.B. Taurus, 2004.
• ‘General Introduction’ and ‘Section Introductions’ in Contemporary Political Thought: A Reader and Guide, Edinburgh University Press, 2003, pp. 1-25; 29-33; 107-112; 241-244; 479-483.
• ‘Glossary’ in Contemporary Political Thought: A Reader and Guide, Edinburgh University Press, 2003, pp. 614-668.
• ‘Conservatism’, in Alan Finlayson (ed.), Contemporary Political Thought: A Reader and Guide, Edinburgh University Press, 2003, pp. 154-197.
• ‘Nationalism’ in R.R. Ecclehsall et.al., Political Ideologies: An Introduction (3rd. edn.), London, Routledge, 2003, pp. 97-117.  
• ‘New Labour: The Culture of Government and the Government of Culture’ in Jeremy Gilbert, and Timothy Bewes (eds.), Cultural Capitalism: Politics after New Labour, London, Lawrence and Wishart, 2002, pp. 177-202.
• ‘On the Subject of New Labour’, in Wendy Wheeler (ed.), The Political Subject: Essays on the Self from Art, Politics and Science, London, Lawrence and Wishart, 2002, pp. 137-159.
• ‘Introduction’, co-authored with Jeremy Valentine for Politics and Post-Structuralism, Edinburgh University Press, 2002, pp. 1-20. 
• ‘The Horizon of Community’ in Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Valentine, Politics and Post-Structuralism, Edinburgh University Press, 2002, pp. 161-175.
• ‘Imagined Communities’, in Kate Nash and Alan Scott (eds.) Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, pp. 281-290.
• ‘Culture’ in Ashe, Finlayson, Lloyd, Mackenzie, Martin, O’Neill, Contemporary Social and Political Theory: An Introduction, Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1999, pp. 131-154.
• ‘Language’ in Ashe, Finlayson, Lloyd, Mackenzie, Martin, O’Neill, Contemporary Social and Political Theory: An Introduction, Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1999, pp. 47-68.
• ‘The Discourse of Nation and the Discourse of Sexuality’ in Terrell Carver and Veronique Mottier (eds.) , The Politics of Sexuality, London: Routledge, 1998, pp. 91-101.
• ‘Discourse and Contemporary Loyalist Identity’ in Peter Shirlow (ed.) Who are the People? Unionism Protestantism and Loyalism in the Late Twentieth Century, London: Pluto Press, 1997, pp. 72-94.
• ‘Popular Culture’ (Units 6-10) Sociology 6: Language, Culture and Society, Oscail, The National Distance Education Council, Dublin City University, 1997.

• ‘From Economic Revolution to Social Revolution: An Interview with Oliver Letwin’, Soundings, 40, pp. 112-122. 
• ‘For the Sake of Argument: re-imagining political communication’, Soundings, 2006.  34-43. 
• ‘Forward not Back: The Labour Party Manifesto, 2005’ Renewal, 13, 3, 2005. 
• ‘How to make the argument for Europe’, Renewal, 13, 1, pp. 76-84, 2005
• ‘The Meaning of Modernisation’, Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 23, 2003, pp. 62-83. 
• ‘New Labour and the Third Way: Re-Visioning the Economic’, Renewal, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1999, pp. 42-51.
• ‘Tony Blair and the Jargon of Modernisation’, Soundings, 10, Autumn 1998 pp. 11-27.