Barker, Rodney


Professor Emeritus Rodney Barker  

Department

Position held

Department of Government

Emeritus Professor of Government

Non LSE positions held

Department

Position held

Gresham College

Emeritus Gresham Professor of Rhetoric

Experience keywords:

legitimacy; identity; enmity; propaganda; ideology; enemies; rhetoric; legitimation

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Professor Barker has conducted research in many areas, including British politics, civil disobedience, legitimation, modern political ideologies, political identity, enmity, enemies, and political propaganda and rhetoric.

Countries and regions to which research relates:

UK

Media experience:

Has written for mainstream pressRadioTV

Contact Points

Publications

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2012

Barker, Rodney (2012) For a society to be truly ‘big’ it must have universal dimensions which sustain and cultivate solidarity and equality. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Dunleavy, Patrick and Mollett, Amy and Evans, Mary and Newburn, Tim and Voth, Hans-Joachim and Ponticelli, Jacopo and Gilson, Christopher and Barker, Rodney (2012) The 2011 London riots. Public Policy Group, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Barker, Rodney (2012) Big societies, little platoons and the problems with pluralism. The political quarterly, 82 (SUPPL1). pp. 48-54. ISSN 0032-3179

Barker, Rodney (2011) Big societies, little platoons and the problems with pluralism. The political quarterly, 82 (1). pp. 50-55. ISSN 0032-3179

Barker, Rodney (2011) Book review: going to war: British debates from Wilberforce to Blair - by Philip Towle. Parliamentary history, 30 (2). pp. 265-266. ISSN 0264-2824

Barker, Rodney (2011) Book review: ten years of New Labour - by Matt Beech and Simon Lee (eds). Parliamentary history, 30 (2). pp. 283-284. ISSN 0264-2824

2010

Barker, Rodney (2010) First debate: what our experts said. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Barker, Rodney (2010) Red Tories, cameronians, and capitalism for the workers. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Barker, Rodney (2010) The perils of electoral success. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

2009

Barker, Rodney (2009) The pluralism of British pluralism. Journal of political ideologies, 14 (1). pp. 31-45. ISSN 1356-9317

2008

Barker, Rodney (2008) On Stefan Collini: absent minds. Political studies review, 6 (1). pp. 14-22. ISSN 1478-9299

Barker, Rodney (2008) Social democracy and liberalism. Re-public, ISSN 1791-857X

2007

Barker, Rodney (2007) Democratic legitimation: what is it, who wants it, and why? In: Hurrelmann, A and Schneider, Steve and Steffek, J, (eds.) Legitimacy in an age of global politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 19-34. ISBN 9780230518100

Barker, Rodney (2007) Making enemies. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780230516816

2003

Barker, Rodney (2003) Legitimacy, legitimation, and the European Union: what crisis? In: Craig, Paul P and Harlow, Carol and Rawlings, Richard, (eds.) Law and administration in Europe: essays in honour of Carol Harlow. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 157-174. ISBN 9780199265374

Barker, Rodney (2003) Pluralism, revenant or recessive? In: Hayward, J. and Barry, B. and Brown, A., (eds.) The British study of politics in the twentieth century. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780197262948

2001

Barker, Rodney (2001) Legitimating identities: the self-presentations of rulers and subjects. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9780521004251

2000

Barker, Rodney, (ed.) (2000) Political ideas and political action. Blackwell Publishers Ltd, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780631221425

Barker, Rodney (2000) Hooks and hands, interests and enemies: political thinking as political action. In: Barker, Rodney, (ed.) Political ideas and political action. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, pp. 1-16. ISBN 9780631221425

Barker, Rodney (2000) The long millennium, the short century, and the persistence of legitimation. Contemporary politics, 6 (1). pp. 7-12. ISSN 1469-3631

Barker, Rodney (2000) Nuove regole per società aperte. In: Moussanet, M., (ed.) Duemila: Verso una società aperta. Il Sole 24 Ore, Milan, Italy. ISBN 9788883630644

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