Browsing by Author "Savigny, Heather"
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Cultural Sexism and the UK Higher Education Sector
Savigny, Heather (Article)Despite the advances of the feminist movement, and wider structural legislative interventions, women remain under-represented at senior levels within academia and (some) women still experience both direct and indirect forms ... -
Cultural sexism is ordinary: writing and re-writing women in academia
Savigny, Heather (Article)When we ‘write women’ in academia, the focus in much of the literature to date has been to write about women. The focus of this article is the writing of women themselves; to give voice to women's experiences as constructors ... -
Focus Groups and Political Marketing. Science and Democracy as Axiomatic’
Savigny, Heather (Article)Focus groups are an established and influential way of generating public opinion data. They have been extensively used by the British Labour Party and are more broadly associated with marketing. Focus groups, as referred ... -
An Ideology of Disconnection: for a Critical Political Marketing’
Savigny, Heather; Wring, D. (Article)The processes of contemporary politics are increasingly informed by ideas and principles that derive from conventional marketing. This, we suggest, is intimately connected to the neoliberal ascendancy which characterises ... -
Ideology, political marketing and the 2005 UK election
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The Importance of Being Theoretical: Analysing Contemporary Politics
Savigny, Heather; Marsden, Lee (Book chapter)The aim of this chapter is to give an overview of the ways in which we seek to engage students in the idea of using theory in their studies and to reflect on why this matters. While we are aware that there are different ... -
Introduction: Media, religion and conflict
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'Labour, Political Marketing and the 2005 Election: A Campaign of Two Halves'
Savigny, Heather (Article)Labour's 2005 election campaign was extensively underpinned by political marketing. This resulted in a campaign of unequal halves; generic and populist at national level; focused and individualised at local level. This ... -
Looking back to move forward: historicising the construction of disciplinary narratives in European Political Science and International Relations’
Savigny, Heather (Article)Politics and International Relations (IR) tend to be discussed as separate disciplines. Rather than emphasising their shared divisions and methodological differences, dominant narratives separate the two, but these narratives ... -
The Media and the Personal lives of Politicians in the United States
Savigny, Heather (Article)The Clinton–Lewinsky story surfaced on the internet on a Saturday evening, by Sunday morning it was the topic of a network talk show, by Monday it was front page of the Washington Post. This was the scandal that led to ...